ARIA funding opportunity
Full proposals are now open for our Universal Fabricators programme.
Biology has proven that proteins can produce materials with almost any function from only locally abundant molecules – yet today, our use of proteins is mostly limited to drugs and enzymes.
Backed by £50 million and led by Ivan Jayapurna, the programme will leverage breakthroughs in protein engineering + build a new, interdisciplinary community that can harness proteins to produce a functionally universal range of materials at scale.
We’d like that community to consist of experts in protein engineering, self assembly, complex matter physics, inorganic materials engineering, process engineering, and reactor design. They’ll be challenged to develop scalable processes that use proteins to template the assembly of inorganic + composite materials with structures that can’t currently be mass manufactured.
Submit your proposal by 5 May.
