Designing Biosensors from Chiral Gold Nanoclusters (CHIRAL-SENSE)

Description of the granted funding

This project investigates interactions between chiral gold nanoclusters and chiral biomolecules by means of massively parallel molecular dynamics simulations and electronic structure calculations. The aim of the study is to find out whether chemically weak biomolecule adsorption events cause measurable changes in clusters' chiroptical response, thus forming a basis to use the clusters as novel chemoselective biosensors. The research is done in collaboration with two European research groups in Geneva and Vienna and the massively parallel computations are performed in LUMI and Mahti supercomputers at CSC in Finland.
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Starting year

2024

End year

2026

Granted funding

Hannu Häkkinen Orcid -palvelun logo
493 766 €

Funder

Research Council of Finland

Funding instrument

Targeted Academy projects

Other information

Funding decision number

359213

Fields of science

Nanotechnology

Research fields

Nanotiede ja -tekniikka