Electro-mechanical spinning (EMS): Innovative Technique to scale-up efficient nanofibers mats for wearable electronics applications

The scholarship will cover tuition fees at the Home rate and a maintenance allowance of £19,000 (tbc) per annum for three years (subject to satisfactory academic performance).

This scholarship also comes with £900 per annum for three years as a research training support grant (RTSG) allocation to help support the PhD researcher.

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E. Elnabawy, M. Farag, A. Soliman, K. Mahmoud, N. Shehata, R. Nair, I. Kandas, A. Rasheed, M. Combrinck, Jibran Khaliq, I. Shyha, A. Kilic, A. Hassanin, Solution Blow Spinning of Piezoelectric Nanofiber Mat for Detecting Mechanical and Acoustic Signals, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 2021, 138 (45), 51322

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B. Le, N. Omran, A. H. Hassanin, I. Kandas, M. Gamal, I. Shyha, and N. Shehata, Elastic piezoelectric PVDF/TPU nanofibrous membranes produced by solution blow spinning, Journal of Materials Research and Technology 2023, 24, 5032-5041.