• Department of Materials Engineering
• Leading international university
• Innovative and creative environment

The Opportunity
The Department of Materials Engineering at Monash University, Melbourne, has an international reputation for research excellence in a wide range of areas including processing, properties and characterisation of materials characterisation including: nanomaterials, light metal alloys, polymers, ceramics, biomaterials, composites, nanocomposites, functional materials, corrosion, and mathematical and computer modeling of materials and properties. It has excellent research facilities and is a key member of a number of major Australian research Centres. Many of these Centres, as well as individual academics, have full tax-free postgraduate PhD scholarships available for Australian or New Zealand citizens or people with Australian or New Zealand Permanent Resident status, most with an immediate start possible in the areas listed below.

1) Plastic crystal materials as solid state electrolytes for lithium batteries and fuel cells
2) Dye sensitised solar cells on flexible polymer substrates
3) Synthesis and properties of light responsive photoplastic crosslinked polymers
4) High efficiency photoinitiators for novel photopolymerisation processes
5) Durability, corrosion and deterioration modeling of pipelines
6) Magnesium extrusion alloys
7) A study of the effects of severe plastic deformation by Equal Channel Angular Processing (ECAP) on the crystallographic anisotropy and the resulting relationships between microstructure and properties
8) Nanoparticle additives to control warpage in thermoplastics ($7k/yr top up only, requires own scholarship
9) Atomic structure of nanostructured materials using advanced microscopy ($5k/yr top up only, requires own scholarship)

You should have studied Science or Engineering, and should have at least Honours 1 or Honours 2A ranking, or equivalent, or a Masters degree.

Location
Clayton campus

Ref No
A000083

If you have any questions about these projects, please direct them to the Head of Department, Professor George Simon,george.simon@eng.monash.edu.au, phone: 03 9905 4936.

If you are interested in applying for these scholarships could you please send a brief letter, resume and a copy of your Student Record to: Ms Michelle Laing, Department of Materials Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, 3800 email: michelle.laing@eng.monash.edu.au, FAX: 03 9905 4940 as soon as possible.

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Please also nominate which of the above scholarships interest you.