ERC awards €1.5 million grant to CRC 1411 researcher Dr. Carlos L. Bassani

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5. September 2025

CRC 1411 researcher 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. Dr. Bassani, originally from Brazil, works at the Institute for Multiscale Simulation and has been a member of CRC 1411 since 2022.

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