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This is a fully-funded 3-year position in the School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham, to work on an interdisciplinary project in the group of Dr Gemma-Louise Davies. The project will involve the production of nanomaterials of different shapes and sizes using various different synthetic...
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Join the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Birmingham for groundbreaking PhD research that aims to improve quantum technologies! Metamaterials, which are artificially engineered materials with properties not (commonly) available in nature, have shown the potential...
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Food security among the top UN Sustainable Development Goals to be achieved by 2030. The challenge for the food sector is not small: to sustainably and efficiently produce safe and healthier foods that feed a forecasted global population of 8.5 billion people by 2030 while meeting Net-Zero...
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Structural materials in nuclear power plants are commonly operating at elevated temperatures in aggressive local environments and complex mechanical stress conditions. The upper temperature limit for the safe operation of a given reactor material or component is dictated primarily by its...
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About the project We seek candidates interested in completing a PhD at the intersection of developmental and computational human neuroscience. We will support the selected candidate to apply for a fully funded 4-year PhD position with a teaching component (~1 year of full-time teaching spread...
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Most modern rechargeable batteries for transportation rely on lithium. Yet, the relatively high price, limited global availability of lithium, and environmental issues related to lithium extraction are driving demand for a more affordable alternative. This could boost the adoption of energy...
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Thermal batteries (often termed primary reserve batteries) offer several key advantages over primary and secondary batteries due to their long shelf life, high temperature stability, quick activation, reliability, robustness and the fact that they are maintenance-free. Despite these many...
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The production of vast amounts of nuclear fusion energy in tokamak and compact spherical reactor designs, as a replica of nuclear reactions in the sun, rely on the deuterium (D)-tritium (T) reaction and the hot D-T plasma confinement using intense superconducting magnets. Tritium is an unstable...
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Structural steels based on body-centred cubic structures are a preferential option for first wall and breeder blanket components in magnetically-confined fusion tokamak designs, due to their enhanced resistance to radiation-induced void swelling, as compared to face-centred cubic materials, and...
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Wide band gap (WBG) materials are assumed to be insulators, materials that display metallic conductivity are assumed to be opaque, and these two properties are often thought to be mutually exclusive. Transparent conducting oxides (TCOs), however, are unique materials that display optical...