| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/S06080/01 |
| Title: |
Travel Grant in Preparation for Framework 6 Application |
| Principal Investigator: |
Mavromatos, Professor N |
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| Department: |
Physics |
| Organisation: |
Kings College London |
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Overseas Travel Grants Pre-FEC |
| Starts: |
01 January 2003 |
Ends: |
30 June 2003 |
Value (£): |
12,087
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| Chemical Biology |
Condensed Matter Physics |
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Within the next 15 years or so silicon based electronics will reach limits in miniaturisation and swithching speeds, due to fundamental physical constraints. The quest for smaller gates and high processing speeds with the attendant increase of chip functional density will reach the point where quantum effects dominate, so that alternative stratergies will be required to overcome the limitations of silicon. Perhaps the most promising technologies are those exploiting the properties of biological molecules, notably microtubles. These have all the advantages associated with carbon chemistry, including the scope for constructing large highly complex marcromecular assemblies, and share the exiting electronic properties of semiconductors and superconductors. Biological systems have the potential to bypass the limiting effects of single particle quantum systems by exploiting the interactions of complex molecules, necessarily based on hydrocarbon polymers.We plan to use theoretical and experimental approac to investigate the new role of quantum effects in the transfer of information along isolated in vitro microtubles and in analogue systems constructed from carbon nanotubes, with the obkect of determining their potential for pratical use in future infromation processing systems.
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