2 million Euro funding to design new energy efficient materials by computer simulations
Posted date: 29 Mar 2022
A University of Warwick project that develops and uses computational tools to calculate the electronic properties of materials will investigate new possibilities that have better energy efficiency, thanks to 2 million Euro funding.
313 winners of the European Research Council’s latest round of Consolidator Grants, backed with some €632 million, will tackle this and other major questions across all scientific disciplines.
The funding will support mid-career researchers and will help them consolidate their teams and conduct pioneering research on topics and with methods of their choosing. Part of the EU’s Horizon Europe programme, this new round of grants will create an estimated 1,900 jobs for postdoctoral fellows, PhD students and other staff at 189 host institutions.
A myriad of novel materials have been recently identified and synthesized, offering unprecedented opportunities for novel functionalities and enhanced properties. The COMPLEXthermMA project based at the University of Warwick School of Engineering develops advanced theory and highly efficient computational tools that will allow the calculation of their electronic properties in a reliable and flexible manner. These tools will be then used to design the next generation of thermoelectric materials, utilizing the many complex electronic features that become available.
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