porous materials PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for UK Students

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Numerical modelling of multiphase flow and reactive transport in porous materials

Heriot-Watt University School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society

Understanding reactive transport in porous materials is of utmost importance for a wide range of engineering applications, including subsurface energy storage, low-carbon building materials and fuel cells. Read more

Supervisor: Dr J Maes

26 April 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Fully-funded PhD position available in data-driven design of amorphous porous materials at the Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London

Imperial College London Department of Chemistry

Glasses are highly disordered materials, typically formed by cooling liquids on a timescale fast enough to prevent crystallisation; they are typically formed from inorganic, organic, and metallic chemistries. Read more

Supervisor: Dr Kim Jelfs

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

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Exploring Advanced Materials for Mitigating Cavitation Damage

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Ivo Peters. Project description. Cavitation damage poses a substantial threat to equipment across various industries, impacting performance, increasing maintenance costs, causing downtime, and posing safety and environmental risks. Read more

Supervisor: Dr I Peters

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

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Soft & Crystalline Composite Materials: Developing Total Scattering Workflows for the Interrogation of Structure.

University of Birmingham School of Chemistry

An exciting interdisciplinary project for an enthusiastic student to develop a broad range of expertise, combining the experimental and computationally-based characterisation of advanced composite materials. Read more

Supervisor: Dr T Easun

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

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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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High-throughput exploration of multicomponent metal organic frameworks (MOFs)

University of Liverpool Department of Chemistry

New porous materials are important for advances in key technologies such as carbon dioxide sequestration and storage or catalysts for clean manufacturing. Read more

Supervisors: Prof M J Rosseinsky, Dr A Katsoulidis

31 December 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Absorption of gases in nano-confined liquids studied by total neutron scattering

The University of Manchester Department of Chemical Engineering

Advances in gas capture and storage research directly contribute to lowering the impact of industrial chemical processes on climate change and enable the move towards Net Zero goals. Read more

Supervisors: Dr M Falkowska, Dr T Hughes, Prof C Hardacre

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

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What makes particle packings stable? Explaining and engineering random loose packing

University of Strathclyde Department of Chemical and Process Engineering

How particles pack together to make stable structures is a puzzle that has been addressed by many illustrious scientists and engineers, including Kepler, Coulomb and James Clerk Maxwell. Read more

Supervisors: Dr M Haw, Dr P Mulheran

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

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PhD studentship in in situ imaging and diffraction of dual-phase zeolite composites for nuclear waste remediation.

University of Birmingham School of Chemistry

Applications are sought for a PhD project under the supervision of Dr Phoebe Allan at the University of Birmingham, Dr Sharif Ahmed and Dr Joe Hriljac at Diamond Light Source, and Dr Tom Carey at the National Nuclear Laboratory. Read more

Supervisor: Dr P Allan

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

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EPSRC DTP PhD Project: Development of pressure swing adsorption for the fusion fuel cycle; In the area of hydrogen isotope separation

University of Bath Department of Chemical Engineering

The Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Bath is inviting applications for the following fully funded PhD project/studentship, expected to commence September/October 2024. Read more

Supervisors: Prof S Perera, Dr A Hill, Prof J Chew

26 May 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

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Novel Material (MOFs) Synthesis using Microfluidic Reactor

University of Adelaide School of Chemical Engineering

Project description. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), composed of organic linkers and metal nodes, are a class of crystalline porous materials with great application potential. Read more

Supervisor: Dr XX Xu

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

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CDT-QTE: Quantum optimal control of quadrupolar nuclei for solid state magnetic resonance

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team: Dr Marina Carravetta, Prof Ilya Kuprov, Dr Matt Potter. Project description This project is part of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Quantum Technology Engineering at the University of Southampton. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Carravetta

31 August 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Non-thermal plasma as a chemical reagent: elucidating mechanism and exploring NTP for pharmaceutically relevant electroreductive reactions

University of Liverpool Department of Chemistry

Chemistry depends on electrons, but we cannot yet fully control electrons to deliver precise reactivity. Controlled high-energy electron sources—such as non-thermal plasma (NTP)—could unlock new and selective chemical transformations, but little is known about these states of matter when mixed with reaction media. Read more

Supervisors: Dr A Slater, Dr C Aissa

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

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Designing new zeolites for sustainable chemical engineering

University of Canterbury Chemical and Process Engineering

A Ph.D. position (zeolite catalysis) in the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering at the University of Canterbury (UC), New Zealand. Read more

Supervisor: Dr AY Yip

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

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PhD Studentship: Porous Two-dimensional Materials (MXenes) for Hydrogen and CO2 Applications

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team: Dr Nuno Bimbo, Dr Mohamed Hassan-Sayed . Project Description. Read more

Supervisor: Dr N Bimbo

31 August 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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We have 26 porous materials PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for UK Students

porous materials PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for UK Students

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