CRANN, Ireland’s leading nanoscience institute and the Trinity Centre for Bioengineering (TCBE), both based at Trinity College have today welcomed the announcement by Minister for Jobs, Innovation and Enterprise Richard Bruton that its AMBER* centre is amongst 7 centres to receive a total of €200 million of Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) funding over the next five years.

The European Commission has announced today that CRANN, the Science Foundation Ireland funded nanoscience institute based at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), has secured a primary role in the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Graphene Flagship project. The EU Commission has committed €1 billion to the Graphene Flagship, the largest ever research project funded in the history of the European Union.

The aim of the Graphene Flagship is to realise the commercial potential of graphene, a ‘wonder material’ that is considered the future of manufacturing. 126 academics and industry groups from 17 countries will work on 15 work packages.
 

CRANN will be at the 2013 BT Young Scientist exhibition from Thursday to Saturday as part of the Intel Ireland stand. Come and see some of our Magical Materials from the successful Science Gallery exhibition, which ran in October 2012.

Dr. Silvia Giordani, CRANN Investigator and Assistant Professor in the School of Chemistry, Trinity College Dublin, received the LEONARDO UGIS award for a young researcher/communicator on December 3^rd in Milan, Italy.

On Tuesday evening, November 20^th, Professor Valeria Nicolosi received the 2012 RDS / Intel Prize Lecture for Nanoscience in recognition of her contribution to this field. The Award recognises world leading research as well as strong commitments to communicating research to a diverse audience and this year the award was targeted at an early-career stage scientist, based in Ireland, who has been awarded their PhD degree within the last eight years. As part of the award Prof Nicolosi gave a public lecture on the subject of nanoscience, entitled ‘Exploring the Nano-flatlands: New frontiers opened by the world's thinnest materials’.