ERC Starting Grant
Award year: 2014
Category: Scholarship / Grant
Type: ERC Starting Grant
Awarding organization: Europäischer Forschungsrat (ERC)
Modern electronic devices not only have to be increasingly powerful, they also have to be increasingly small. Molecular electronics makes it possible for incredibly small components or sensors to be made from functional molecules. Sabine Maier investigates how the configuration of molecules and the way in which they interact with one another can be controlled. She hopes to create unimaginably thin carpets of single molecules that are extremely stable and that conduct electricity.