Applications are invited for a PhD studentship at the University of Sheffield in collaboration with Domino Ltd. The studentship is jointly supervised by Dr Stephen Rimmer (Polymer Chemistry) and Prof. Mark Geoghegan (Nanoscience) and is aimed at the design of polymers for enhancing adhesion of coatings to low energy surfaces. The work will involve polymer synthesis, nanoscale structural evaluation and coatings performance evaluation. The work will require a highly committed student with excellent cross-disciplinary and communication skills. Full training in a wide range of synthetic and characterisation methods will be provided in a highly multi-disciplinary environment that will include periods at the Domino’s laboratories. This EPSRC CASE award offers an enhanced maintenance award and candidates with good first degrees in chemistry, physics or materials science (first or upper second class degree) are encouraged to apply.

In the first instance applicants should contact either Dr Rimmer (s.rimmer@sheffield.ac.uk) or Prof. Geoghegan (mark.geoghegan@sheffield.ac.uk).

Link to full article: Hyper/highly-branched polymers by radical polymerisations, Polymer Chemistry (2010), 1, 1533-1544