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chemistry PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 569 chemistry PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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EPSRC Energy Transfer Technologies Doctoral Training Hub

Are you passionate about applying research to real-world problems? Are you considering a PhD but are also interested in a career in industry? Are you interested in collaborating with researchers across disciplines including physics, electrical engineering, data science and chemistry? If so, the EPSRC Energy Transfer Technologies Doctoral Training Hub could be the perfect place for you. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training
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PhD Global Excellence and Mobility Scholarship (GEMS 2026). Research Project: Nano-enabled detection and risk communication of microplastics in ASEAN food chains

Microplastics are increasingly found in the food chain, with Malaysia and Indonesia among the most impacted due to high plastic consumption. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr Athirah Bakhtiar, Assoc Prof Dr Pitaloka
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Designing highly dispersed metal catalysts for catalytic CO2 conversion

Single atom catalysts have emerged as a novel class of catalysts that can exhibit optimal metal utilization, with all metal atoms being exposed to reactants and available for catalytic reactions. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Xu, Dr D Lewis, Dr X Fan
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Revealing Solvents Under Confinement

Many technologies essential to a Net Zero future, including sustainable chemical processing, separations, and energy storage, rely on liquids operating inside nanoporous materials. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Falkowska, Dr T Youngs, Prof C Hardacre
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Developing an advanced microscopy platform to characterise neuronal internalisation and spreading of pathological protein aggregates

PhD studentship in automated fluorescence microscopy to study intercellular aggregate spreading, Imperial College London. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr Y Ye
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Machine Learning-Guided Synthesis of Graphene Aerogels for Supercapacitors

Graphene aerogels are ultra-light and highly porous carbon materials with strong potential for high-power energy storage applications such as electric double-layer capacitors (EDLCs). Read more
 Supervisors: Dr MF Vasheghani Farahani, Prof I Kinloch
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Towards more understanding of aggregation and scaling of calcium carbonate in the petroleum production facility

The scale deposition and aggregation of calcium carbonate in the production facility is challenging problem in the petroleum industry. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof AD Salman
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Developing a regime map for the roller compaction process

Roller compaction is a process used by many industries such as pharma, food and fertilizers. Roller compaction is a continuous dry granulation process where the powder particles compressed by two rotating rollers to produce a ribbon like shape compact. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof AD Salman
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Improving the fertilizers granulation process

Producing fertilizers with the required specification while minimizing the waste of the manufacturing process is challenging. This research aims to improve the current fertilizer production method by designing the products to achieve the required specifications such as strength, size and dissolution/disintegration time. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof AD Salman
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Continuous Catalyst Manufacturing process towards more sustainability

Many industries looking to improve the sustainability of their manufacturing lines to maximise resource efficiency while reducing the environmental impact. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof AD Salman
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Towards more understanding of the particle dissolution process in the liquid

Dissolution of the powder in a liquid is of highly importance for many industries such as food, pharma, fertilizers and many others. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof AD Salman
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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2D-Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Nanoelectronic Devices for Neuromorphic Computing

Supervisory Team. Dr Ruomeng Huang, Prof. Kees de Groot and Dr Shibin Thomas. This project will explore transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) semiconductors to build transistors and memristive devices enabling energy-efficient neuromorphic systems. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R Huang
 31 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Exploiting peptide design in linking hydrogel and spread film properties in the development of novel antibacterial films

  Research Group: Division of Pharmacy and Optometry
This project combines expertise in pharmacy and biotechnology to tune polypeptide/surfactant film properties through the design of novel peptides characterised using advanced physical characterisation techniques and relate the film properties to those of hydrogels. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr R Campbell, Prof A Saiani, Prof A Miller
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Chemical recycling and life cycle assessment of next-generation thermoplastic composites for wind turbine blade manufacture (Ref: AURA26-SSY2)

This PhD scholarship is offered by the EPSRC CDT in Offshore Wind Energy Sustainability and Resilience, a partnership between the Universities of Durham, Hull, Loughborough and Sheffield. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Saremi-Yarahmadi
 10 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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HW-3-12 Smart Water Engineering for a Waterless Distillery

This PhD is one of a number of projects hosted by the Centre for Doctoral Training in Green Industrial Futures (CDT-GIF). We are offering pioneering research projects that will enable PhD researchers to explore key technologies and solutions that will support UK industry to reach net zero. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof J Andresen, Dr S Pitchaimuthu
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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