Novel metal-organic frameworks and their functional derivatives for affordable clean energy generation

These scholarships will cover full-time PhD tuition fees for three years (subject to satisfactory academic performance) and will provide a £900 per annum research training support grant (RTSG) to help support the PhD researcher.

Applicants who already hold a doctoral degree or who have been registered on a programme of research leading to the award of a doctoral degree on a full-time basis for more than one year (or part-time equivalent) are NOT eligible to apply for an award.

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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.

Cost and potential of metal–organic frameworks for hydrogen back-up power supply; Peng, P., Anastasopoulou, A., Brooks, K., Furukawa, H., Bowden, M. E., Long, J. R., Autrey, T. & Breunig, H., May 2022, In: Nature Energy. 7, p. 448-458.

Metal-Organic Frameworks for Hydrogen Energy Applications: Advances and Challenges; Bakuru, V. R., DMello., M. E., & Kalidindi., S. B., 2019, In: ChemPhysChem 20, 1177– 1215.

Optimizing Hydrogen Storage in MOFs through Engineering of Crystal Morphology and Control of Crystal Size; Suresh, K., Aulakh, D., Purewal, J., Siegel, D. J., Veenstra, M., & Matzger, A. J., 2021, In: J. Am. Chem. Soc. 143, p. 10727−10734.

Freestanding Metal−Organic Frameworks and Their Derivatives: An Emerging Platform for Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion; He, B., Zhang, Q., Pan, Z., Li, L., Li, C., Ling, Y., Wang, Z., Chen, M., Wang, Z., Yao, Y., Li, Q., Sun, L., Wang, J., & Wei, L., 2022, In: Chem. Rev. 122, p 10087-10125.

Metal—organic frameworks in fuel cell technologies; Ren, Y., Chia, G. H. & Gao, Z., 2013, In: Nano Today 8, p 577-597.

Functionalized Carbon Nanotube and MnO2 Nanoflower Hybrid as an Electrode Material for Supercapacitor Application; Mothkuri, S., Gupta, H., Jain, P. K., Rao, T. N., Padmanabham, G. & Chakrabarti, S., 20 Feb 2021, In: Micromachines. 12, 2, 213.

Activated Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes and 2D Nanostructured MoS2 Hybrid Electrode Material for High‐Performance Supercapacitor Applications; Gupta, H., Mothkuri, S., Mc Glynn, R., Carolan, D., Maguire, P., Mariotti, D., Jain, P. K., Rao, T. N., Padmanabham, G. & Chakrabarti, S., 25 May 2020, In: Physica Status Solidi (A) Applications and Materials Science. 217, 10, p. 1-12 12 p., 1900855.

One-Step Hydrothermal Synthesis of Phase-Engineered MoS2/MoO3 Electrocatalysts for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction; Shanmughasundaram, D., Ganguly, A., Sharma, P., Davis, J., Papakonstantinou, P. & Benson, J., 10 Mar 2021, In: ACS Applied Nano Materials. 4, 3, p. 2642-2656 15 10.1021/acsanm.0c03274.

Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Reaction on Edges of a Few Layer Molybdenum Disulfide Nanodots; Benson, J., Li, M., Wang, S., Wang, P. & Papakonstantinou, P., 1 Jul 2015, In: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. 7, p. 14113-14122 10 p.

Size-Dependent Enhancement of Electrocatalytic Oxygen-Reduction and Hydrogen-Evolution Performance of MoS2 Particles; ang, T., Gao, D., Zhuo, J., Zhu, Z., Papakonstantinou, P., Y, L. & M, L., 19 Jul 2013, In: Chemistry A European Journal. 19, p. 11939-11948

Mapping Elastic Properties of Heterogeneous Materials in Liquid with Angstrom-Scale Resolution; Amo, C. A., Perrino, A. P., Farokh Payam, A. & Garcia, R., 26 Sept 2017, In: ACS Nano. 11, 9, p. 8650-8659

Tailored Microcantilever Optimization for Multifrequency Force Microscopy; Bhattacharya, G., Lionadi, I., Stevenson, A., Ward, J. & Payam, A. F., 22 Oct 2023, (Published online) In: Advanced Science. p. 1-11 11 p., 2303476.

Multiparametric analytical quantification of materials at nanoscale in tapping force microscopy. Farokh Payam, A., Morelli, A. & Lemoine, P., 15 Jan 2021, In: Applied Surface Science. 536, 147698.

Application of Atomic Force Microscopy to Study Metal–Organic Frameworks Materials and Composites; Farokh Payam, A., 27 Sept 2018, Springer Nature. Springer Nature, p. 37-73