Dr Harry Miras was selected by the House of Commons’ Parliamentary and Scientific Committee to present his research work at their recent SET for Britain event which is designed to encourage, support and promote Britain's early-stage and early-career research scientists, engineers and technologists.

Dr Miras presented a poster of his research work, entitled: Controlling the Evolution of Molecules: Towards the Engineering of Tomorrow’s Molecular Devices at the event in the House of Commons on 12 March.

Dr Miras’s research centres around the generation and manufacturing of new metal oxide based materials. These are crucial for future developments and applications in diverse areas such as microchips, hard disks, displays, glass coatings, sun screen, chemical catalysts and superconductors.

Metal oxide based technology is worth over a trillion dollars per year and in this respect much effort has been directed to the synthesis of molecules and materials with well-defined architectures and functionality. Dr Miras’s work is looking into the investigation and control of the molecular evolution processes in metal-oxide systems by introducing a fundamentally novel approach which will lead to more effective and precise ways of synthesising molecular nano-particles and finally designing of functional nano-materials.

First published: 21 March 2012

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