Dr. Carlos L. Bassani has received an ERC Starting Grant for his project kineticSHAPES – Kinetic Pathways to Control Nanocrystal Shapes. The project will investigate how nanocrystal morphologies emerge under non-equilibrium conditions. By developing simulation methods that span from the atomic to the mesoscopic scale, the research aims to explain phenomena such as metastability, symmetry-breaking, and polydispersity, and to identify the conditions that govern synthesis outcomes. FAU NMP member Dr. Bassani, originally from Brazil, works at the Institute for Multiscale Simulation and has been an awardee of the EAM Starting Grant in 2023/2024.
Simulation predictions of nanocrystals with polyhedral shapes.
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Carlos L. Bassani, Michael Engel. Kinetically Trapped Nanocrystals with Symmetry-Preserving Shapes. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 147:9487−9495, 2025. DOI:10.1021/jacs.4c17157
Dr. Carlos L. Bassani has received an ERC Starting Grant for his project kineticSHAPES – Kinetic Pathways to Control Nanocrystal Shapes. The project will investigate how nanocrystal morphologies emerge under non-equilibrium conditions. By developing simulation methods that span from the atomic to the mesoscopic scale, the research aims to explain phenomena such as metastability, symmetry-breaking, and polydispersity, and to identify the conditions that govern synthesis outcomes. FAU NMP member Dr. Bassani, originally from Brazil, works at the Institute for Multiscale Simulation and has been an awardee of the EAM Starting Grant in 2023/2024.
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Carlos L. Bassani, Michael Engel. Kinetically Trapped Nanocrystals with Symmetry-Preserving Shapes. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 147:9487−9495, 2025. DOI:10.1021/jacs.4c17157