Chemistry

Founded in 2000, the College of Materials Science and Engineering is one of the best-known materials science and engineering programs in China, providing nearly all the major disciplines, such as Metallurgy and Metals Forming, Carbon and Ceramic Materials Engineering, Polymer Science, Materials Physics and Chemistry. The...

Circa £26k or circa £33k for appointment at the senior level Ref: DIA0835/NH  Diamond Light Source is the UK’s national synchrotron science facility. Located at Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire, we enable world-leading research across a wide range of scientific disciplines and industrial applications. I20 is...

Your main responsibility will be to lead a small group of researchers on a long term industrial research program investigating the chemical modification of polysaccharides and cellulose nano-fibres which could lead to the development of new biopolymer based materials.  You will also be expected to actively seek additional research funding on a...

Your main responsibility will be to carry out research in the field of polysaccharide chemistry as part of a team on an industrially related research program in the field of polysaccharide modification and biopolymer based materials development. You will be expected to contribute to ideas development, laboratory based research, data analysis and...

x 2 (Fixed Term) Salary: £27,854-£36,298 pa Reference: MA01186 Closing date: 03 June 2013 Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available until 30 September 2015 in the first instance. Applications are invited for two post-doctoral research associates to work with Professor David Wales and Professor Daan Frenkel in...

Closing date: 02/06/2013 Salary:  £30,424 - £34,223 Language: English (UK) Job number: ACAD100314 Contract Type: Fixed-term contract staff Work Hours 35.0 Hours per Week Expected: Start Date: 01/07/2013 Expected: End Date: 30/06/2014 Job Type: Research and Teaching 12 month fixed term contract The...

Limit of tenure: 3.5 Years. A fully-funded 3.5 year PhD studentship is available in the Computational Modelling Group, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Prof. Markus Kraft. The studentship starts in October 2013 or as soon as possible thereafter and, due to funding...

A 4-year studentship is available in the UCL Chemistry Department to work with Professor Nora de Leeuw and project partners AWE on a computer simulation project to gain atomic-level insight into the physico-chemical properties of the PuO 2 material and its interaction with hydrogen, which is relevant to our understanding of the corrosion behaviour of...

A 3-year PhD studentship is available in the UCL Chemistry Department to work with Professors Jawwad Darr, Nora de Leeuw and colleagues on a project developing transition metal-doped iron sulfide nanoparticles for the catalytic conversion of carbon dioxide to fuel and fine chemicals. The project, which is in collaboration with Johnson Matthey and Air...

Project title: diagnostics for lithium batteries Supervisor: Dr Rohit Bhagat (WMG) and Chris Lyness (JLR) Project Overview: Lithium batteries change and degrade during operation leading to reduced performance. This becomes increasingly important when considering the electric vehicle application where many batteries are connected to form battery...