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[News] Prof Jochen Blumberger awarded ERC Consolidator Award

29 January 2016

Prof Jochen Blumberger, Professor of Chemical Physics at the Department of Physics and Astronomy is one of four members of UCL staff who have been awarded ERC Consolidator Awards.

Prof Blumberger, has been awarded a €2 M ERC Consolidator grant to develop a novel computational method for the simulation of charge carrier transport in organic semiconducting materials and proteins that find applications in organic photovoltaic cells and nanobioelectronic devices. The envisioned methodology, based on solving some of the most fundamental equations of quantum mechanics, will be able to access length and time scales that are presently out-of-reach with existing approaches. The simulations will lead to a better fundamental understanding of how the charge carriers propagate through the material (e.g. as waves, wavepackets or particles), and how composition, structure and temperature affect carrier transport. The project will contribute to the development of an open computer programme package freely available for the scientific community. It will also yield important guidelines informing the development of high-performance materials that have the potential to transform emerging technologies of the 21st century.

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