Polymer Chemistry (processing) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Using Natural Language Processing and molecular simulations to build polymer databases

The University of Manchester Department of Chemistry

A fully funded PhD position in multiscale modelling of polymer composites is available in the group of Professor Carbone at the University of Manchester from October 2024. Read more

Supervisor: Dr P Carbone

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Mono-Material Barrier Films for Sustainable and Circular Plastic Packaging Applications (MonoFilm)

University of Warwick WMG

Plastic packaging materials play a crucial role in today's society, offering advantages such as versatility, hygiene, safety, lightweight properties, and, notably, a low carbon footprint when compared to alternative materials. Read more

Supervisors: Prof T Peijs, Dr T Schiller

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Mechanistic design of effective pharmaceutical cocrystal formulations

Newcastle University Faculty of Medical Sciences Graduate School

It is estimated that more than 70 percent of the compounds in the pharmaceutical pipeline can be poorly water-soluble. Since solid drug forms must dissolve before absorption can occur, strategies to improve drug solubility and dissolution are a continuous need. Read more

Supervisor: Ms T C M Machado

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Natural Polymer Textiles & Fibres for Sustainable Fashion Sector PhD

Cranfield University School of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing (SATM)

This project aims to manufacture sustainable textiles from renewable/natural polymers such as cellulose, chitin, alginate, chitosan which derived from most abundant natural resources like agricultural biomass and sea food waste (crab shell, shrimp shells etc.). Read more

Supervisor: Dr S.S Rahatekar

3 July 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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ZENITH PhD Project: Development of polymeric composites for enhanced porosity and scalability of hydrogen storage

University of Bath Department of Chemistry

The Department of Chemistry at the University of Bath is inviting applications for this funded PhD project expected to commence in September 2024. Read more

Supervisors: Dr M Kopeć, Prof A D Burrows, Prof T J Mays, Prof C R Bowen

30 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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PhD in Sustainable Rubber Chemistry and Technology

University of Warwick WMG

Rubbers are ubiquitous materials in modern society and have played important roles across industries. As the key component to connecting the vehicle to the road, the performance of the tyre directly determines the fuel efficiency, wear emission, and safety. Read more

Supervisor: Dr C Wan

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Investigating the effect of plastics recycling on nanoplastic production in packaging applications

The University of Manchester Department of Materials

Nanoplastics, defined as plastic particles measuring less than 1000 nanometres, have emerged as a significant concern due to their ability to infiltrate ecosystems, posing potential risks to the environment. Read more

Supervisor: Dr T McDonald

25 August 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Characterisation of the physics of photopolymer curing and formulation effects of highly filled slurries during additive ceramic core manufacture

University of Birmingham School of Chemical Engineering

Do you want to work at the cutting edge of Aerospace manufacturing technology? Are you interested in Additive Manufacturing? Do you want to work as part… Read more

Supervisor: Dr A C Cendrowicz

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Effect of additive ceramic core material formulation on rheology and particle segregation during build and its contribution to shrinkage anisotropy and interlayer strength

University of Birmingham School of Chemical Engineering

Do you want to work at the cutting edge of Aerospace manufacturing technology? Are you interested in Additive Manufacturing? Do you want to work as part… Read more

Supervisor: Dr A C Cendrowicz

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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High-Throughput Soft Matter Characterisation for Formulation Discovery

University of Liverpool School of Engineering

Direct Ink Writing (DIW), extrusion-based 3D printing, is a rapidly developing processing technique for additive manufacturing of advanced, functional materials into complex designs. Read more

Supervisors: Dr WS Sharratt, Dr E García-Tuñón, Dr V Kurlin

12 June 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Photo-chemical adaptive integrated circuits for next generation neuromorphic computing

University of Strathclyde Institute of Photonics

Neuromorphic computing, i.e., an approach to information processing inspired in basic morphology and working principles of the brain, is a rapidly growing area of research due to the availability of high-speed hardware and need for artificial intelligence (AI) systems across a wide range of applications. Read more

Supervisors: Prof M Strain, Dr J Porte-Parera

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Accelerating energy landscape exploration through optimisation, approximation and parallelisation

University of Liverpool School of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Computer Science

Many heuristic methods (random walks, probabilistic selection, genetic algorithms) for energy landscape exploration in Crystal Structure Prediction (CSP) [1] are very important material discovery tools [2]. Read more

Supervisor: Prof I Potapov

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Deploying safer robot chemists in real laboratory environments

University of Liverpool School of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Computer Science

Robotic chemists [1] are a totally new and disruptive development in human-centric labs, and these systems are already beginning to carry out complex experiments that require skills beyond sample transportation (e.g., sample weighing [2] and scraping samples from vials [3]. Read more

Supervisor: Dr G Pizzuto

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Designing the properties of renewable plastics

University of Strathclyde Department of Chemical and Process Engineering

The world relies on the availability of cheap and plentiful plastics, which can have a wide range of functionalities and applications. Read more

Supervisors: Dr P Mulheran, Dr K Johnston

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Development of bespoke algorithms for autonomous optimisation in flow

University of Liverpool Department of Chemistry

A key challenge in materials science is how to efficiently and sustainably arrive at the optimal conditions for material production. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Slater

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Computationally driving automated functional materials discovery for net zero technologies with machine reasoning and decision-making

University of Liverpool Department of Chemistry

This project, suited to a student with a Computer Science or Mathematics background, will formally define the nature and consequences of the decisions that need to be made in the automated workflow and identify both the optimal combination of existing methods and tools to accelerate discovery and the gaps in capability that currently exist. Read more

Supervisors: Prof RIJ Ibsen-Jensen, Prof M J Rosseinsky

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Automated experimental functional materials discovery for net zero technologies

University of Liverpool Department of Chemistry

The discovery of materials that will drive technologies for the net zero transition, such as batteries, solar absorbers, rare-earth-free magnets for wind power and myriad other unmet needs, is a scientific and societal grand challenge that requires experimental realisation of materials in the laboratory. Read more

Supervisor: Prof M J Rosseinsky

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Non-Metal Organic Frameworks for proton and ion conduction

University of Liverpool Department of Chemistry

We have recently developed a novel class of porous materials, non-metal organic frameworks [1], that display remarkable proton and ion conduction properties. Read more

Supervisors: Prof A I Cooper, Dr LJ Hardwick

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Explaining structure-property relations in the materials space

University of Liverpool Department of Chemistry

This project aims to explain important materials properties from geometric invariants of crystal structures. Read more

Supervisors: Dr V Kurlin, Prof A I Cooper

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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High-throughput first-principle simulations of charge transport in organic semiconductors

University of Liverpool Department of Mathematical Sciences

This project focuses on application of first-principle, fully quantum simulation methods such as Hybrid Monte-Carlo to study charge transport in a vast class of quasi-2D molecular organic semiconductors (rubrene, pentacene, and >4000 other materials). Read more

Supervisors: Dr P Buividovich, Prof A Troisi

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Fully-funded PhD Studentship in Controlling Transport of Colloidal Particles in Complex Fluids in Microfluidic Devices

Lancaster University School of Engineering

Supervisors. Primary supervisor. Dr Naval Singh, School of Engineering (Chemical Engineering). Secondary supervisor. Dr John Hardy, Department of Chemistry. Read more

Supervisors: Dr N Singh, Dr J Hardy

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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PhD in Chemistry - Self-Assembled Organic Thermoelectric Generator Materials

University of Glasgow College of Science and Engineering

Thermoelectric materials convert a temperature gradient to electricity. Read more

Supervisor: Dr E Draper

30 April 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

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Machine Learning (ML) for Polymer Blending Optimisation

University of Edinburgh School of Engineering

A wide spectrum of target thermoplastic materials can be manufactured by tailoring polymer blends to achieve particular combinations of end-user performance (e.g. Read more

Supervisors: Dr DG Gerogiorgis, Prof V Koutsos

16 January 2025 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Recycled polymer electrolytes for sustainable sodium ion batteries

Aberdeen University School of Engineering

These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more

Supervisors: Dr A Martinez-Felipe, Dr A Sharifi

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Green methods to revalorise wastes: transformation into sustainable materials and chemicals

Aberdeen University School of Engineering

These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more

Supervisors: Dr C Fernandez-Martin, Dr A McCue

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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PhD Studentship in Structural Battery Electrodes

Imperial College London Department of Chemical Engineering

Structural batteries, or structural materials that possess the ability to store and deliver electrical energy, could play a pivotal role in decarbonising challenging industries such as aviation, by integrating the power source within, say, the aeroplane fuselage itself. Read more

Supervisor: Dr HA Au

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Fully Funded Doctoral Studentship in Polymer Chemistry: Multifunctional Electrolytes, Department of Engineering, Durham University.

Durham University Department of Engineering

Durham University, one of the top 100 universities in the world (ranked 82nd in QS World University Rankings 2022) is inviting applications for a fully funded PhD studentship to work within the Department of Engineering. Read more

Supervisor: Dr N Shirshova

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Biosensor for Point-of-Care DNA Detection

University of Birmingham School of Chemistry

DNA detection is needed for a range of applications including clinical diagnostics and environmental monitoring. As target DNA is often present in very low concentrations, it is typically amplified using methods such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR) [1], before detection. Read more

Supervisor: Dr R Gupta

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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We have 28 Polymer Chemistry (processing) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Polymer Chemistry (processing) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 28 Polymer Chemistry (processing) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Using Natural Language Processing and molecular simulations to build polymer databases

Mono-Material Barrier Films for Sustainable and Circular Plastic Packaging Applications (MonoFilm)

Mechanistic design of effective pharmaceutical cocrystal formulations

Natural Polymer Textiles & Fibres for Sustainable Fashion Sector PhD

ZENITH PhD Project: Development of polymeric composites for enhanced porosity and scalability of hydrogen storage

PhD in Sustainable Rubber Chemistry and Technology

Investigating the effect of plastics recycling on nanoplastic production in packaging applications

Characterisation of the physics of photopolymer curing and formulation effects of highly filled slurries during additive ceramic core manufacture

Effect of additive ceramic core material formulation on rheology and particle segregation during build and its contribution to shrinkage anisotropy and interlayer strength

High-Throughput Soft Matter Characterisation for Formulation Discovery

Photo-chemical adaptive integrated circuits for next generation neuromorphic computing

Accelerating energy landscape exploration through optimisation, approximation and parallelisation

Deploying safer robot chemists in real laboratory environments

Designing the properties of renewable plastics

Development of bespoke algorithms for autonomous optimisation in flow

Computationally driving automated functional materials discovery for net zero technologies with machine reasoning and decision-making

Automated experimental functional materials discovery for net zero technologies

Non-Metal Organic Frameworks for proton and ion conduction

Explaining structure-property relations in the materials space

High-throughput first-principle simulations of charge transport in organic semiconductors

Fully-funded PhD Studentship in Controlling Transport of Colloidal Particles in Complex Fluids in Microfluidic Devices

PhD in Chemistry - Self-Assembled Organic Thermoelectric Generator Materials

Machine Learning (ML) for Polymer Blending Optimisation

Recycled polymer electrolytes for sustainable sodium ion batteries

Green methods to revalorise wastes: transformation into sustainable materials and chemicals

PhD Studentship in Structural Battery Electrodes

Fully Funded Doctoral Studentship in Polymer Chemistry: Multifunctional Electrolytes, Department of Engineering, Durham University.

Biosensor for Point-of-Care DNA Detection

We have 28 Polymer Chemistry (processing) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Polymer Chemistry (processing) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 28 Polymer Chemistry (processing) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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