Inorganic Materials Chemistry

无机材料化学领域有一个受资助的博士职位，探索基于分子积木的新铁电材料的开发。这种杂化材料，包括金属-有机骨架，将无机和有机构建块结合成扩展固体，最近被证明具有与最好的功能固体相媲美的功能电子性能，有望在传感、数据存储和能量收集应用中得到应用。这是由于它们极大的组成灵活性，导致独特的架构，使新的路线优化的功能属性。该项目将探索优化的铁电混合体的智能设计，在传感、数据存储和能量收集方面具有潜在的用途。这将通过建立规则来优化它们的超分子主客体相互作用和结构扭曲来实现，这是它们功能性质的关键。该项目将涉及无机-有机杂化材料的合成，利用粉末和单晶X射线和中子衍射以及电子和磁性测量对其结构进行表征。我们将在所有方面提供全面的培训，使您能够深入了解铁电混合材料以及用于制造和表征它们的合成和分析技术的使用。该项目还将涉及与其他在这些领域拥有专业知识的英国研究小组的合作，以及在中央设施的研究，如ISIS中子和Muon源。这将使您能够在世界领先的科学家网络中体验工作。

A funded PhD position is available in the field of inorganic material chemistry exploring the development of new ferroelectric materials based on molecular building blocks. Such hybrid materials, including metal-organic frameworks, combine inorganic and organic building blocks into extended solids and have been recently shown to exhibit functional electronic properties comparable to the best functional solids promising future uses in sensing, data storage and energy harvesting applications. This is facilitated by their tremendous compositional flexibility, leading to unique architectures that enable new routes to optimised functional properties. This project will explore the smart design of optimised ferroelectric hybrids with potential uses in sensing, data storage and energy harvesting. This will be achieved by establishing rules for optimising both their supramolecular host-guest interactions and structural distortions, key to their functional properties. This project will involve the synthesis of hybrid inorganic-organic materials, their structural characterisation using powder and single crystal X-ray and neutron diffraction and electronic and magnetic property measurements. Full training will be provided in all aspects to enable you to build a deep knowledge of both ferroelectric hybrid materials and the use of synthetic and analytical techniques used to make and characterise them. The project will also involve collaboration with other UK research groups with expertise in these areas and research at central facilities, such as the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source. This will enable you to experience working within a network of world-leading scientists.