Kumar Varoon Agrawal awarded ERC Starting Grant
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Prof. Agrawal have been awarded Starting Grants from the European Research Council.
The ERC Starting Grants are given each year to researchers of any nationality and in any field of research with 2-7 years of experience since their PhD, with a promising scientific track record and an excellent research proposal. The application must be made from an EU or associated country, and each Starting Grant can be up to €1.5 million given over a period of five years.
His project, "Energy-efficient membranes for carbon capture by crystal engineering of two-dimensional nanoporous materials", will develop nm-thick membranes for energy-efficient capture of CO2 from the industrial streams.