The Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration in Nanotechnology has awarded a grant to Professor Stephen Mann as Principal Investigator for a project entitled ‘New exploratory project - biomimetic synthese and characterisation of nanostructured device building blocks from template-directed metallisation of tobacco mosaic viroids’, totaling £127,436.52.

AWE plc has awarded a grant to Professor Andrew Orr-Ewing as Principal Investigator for a project entitled ‘New frontiers in quantitative infra-red to ultraviolet spectroscopy using tunable diode lasers and quantum-cascade lasers’, totaling £21,000.