Big cash award for nanotech safety study

摘要

The University of Southampton has been awarded a multi-million grant from Lloyd's Register Foundation to find new ways of using nanotechnologies to improve safety at sea, on land and in the air. Dr Themis Prodromakis of Southampton's Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnologies Group is leading the £3m programme, which will receive match funding from partner organisations. He said: "Researchers are always looking for funding for high-risk, high-reward ideas. They want to collaborate with the best scientists and engineers in the world and gain access to state-of-art facilities. The Lloyd's Register Foundation International Consortium in Nanotechnologies (ICON) will assemble the world's leading universities, research institutions and innovative companies to help them tackle many of today's most challenging issues by recruiting talented PhD students from every continent."