Post-Doctoral Researcher (35-month contract) Department of Chemistry, Maynooth University

Maynooth University, Ireland

Updated: 5 months ago
Location: Ireland,
Job Type: FullTime
Deadline: 15 Nov 2022

The Role

Maynooth University is committed to a strategy in which the primary University goals of excellent research and scholarship and outstanding education are interlinked and equally valued.

Maynooth University is seeking to recruit a post-doctoral researcher to work on a SFI-funded research project titled ‘The fabrication of conducting 2D layered graphene-like materials and their applications as environmental sensors and as electro-catalysts for electro-Fenton: Improved sensing and removal of emerging pollutants from water.’ The successful candidate will join the Electrochemistry and Materials research groups and will be directed and supervised by Professor Carmel Breslin (PI) and Dr. Eithne Dempsey (co-PI) in the Department of Chemistry. The project will involve the hydrothermal synthesis of two dimensional materials that can be employed to fabricate electro-catalysts for the generation of H2 O2 and hydroxyl radicals (HO• ) in an electro-Fenton cell. The electro-Fenton cell will be used to mineralise a variety of aquatic contaminants.

The candidate is expected to develop and optimise the hydrothermal synthesis and the exfoliation of the 2D materials using a combination of liquid phase exfoliation and electrochemical approaches. The candidate will use various high resolution surface analytical techniques to characterise the 2D electro-catalysts, and then focus on appropriate fabrication methods for the formation of the electro-Fenton cell.


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