A fully funded 3.5 year PhD studentship has just become available within the Warwick Electrochemistry and Interfaces Group under the supervision of Prof. Julie Macpherson. The group hosts a significant array of state-of-the art equipment including a clean room for materials processing, AFMs, confocal microscopes, electrochemical workstations, electrochemical imaging capabilities and finite element modelling capabilities and has access to world leading electron microscopy facilities and spectroscopic equipment. The project is in collaboration with Astra Zeneca, a British-Swedish multi-national Pharmaceutical and Biologics Company and Element Six, the world’s leading supplier of synthetic diamond. The project will involve the development and application of all diamond electrochemical sensors, for the detection and removal of impurity species, in particular metal catalysts, from solution. The project will build on recent developments in the group on the fabrication of novel electrochemical sensors made entirely of diamond [1], capable of functioning for long periods of time in complex environments and combined spectroscopic – electrochemical sensor technology, capable of chemical species identification, quantification and removal from solution [2]. For further information please contact j.macpherson@warwick.ac.uk

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Applicants must be from the UK/EU and hold a first degree (equivalent to 2:1 and above) in Chemistry or a related discipline. Interested applicants should contact Prof. Julie Macpherson (j.macpherson@warwick.ac.uk) in the first instance.