Post Doctoral Fellow (organic chemist and conductive polymer chemist) in the School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)

The Department of Biomedical Science at the University of Sheffield is pleased to announce the projects that are available for applicants wishing to start PhDs in October 2014. 

We welcome applications from excellent students for a limited number of funded positions.

Research Topic:

 Single-walled carbon nanotubes are attractive as semiconducting materials for field effect transistors. However, their practical application as semiconducting material is plagued by the heterogeneity of the nanotubes. We are actively pursuing different strategies to separate the metallic nanotubes from the semiconducting nanotubes. We also make OLED devices drivers.

(1)   Organic Chemist

Job description: We are designing and synthesizing chemical compounds that can select carbon nanotubes based on metallicity.

Requirements: MSc /PHD in Organic Synthesis. Good academic results for MSc applicants who are interested in PHD studies. For postdoctoral fellow, good publication track record is required.

(2)   Conductive Polymer Synthetic Chemist

Job Description: We are designing and synthesizing conductive polymers for OLED.

Requirements: MSc /PHD in Organic Polymer Synthesis. Good academic results for MSc applicants who are interested in PHD studies. For postdoctoral fellow, good publication track record is required.

Professor Mary Chan-Park

Dr Chan-Park is the Leading Principal Investigator of a major Singapore government funded project on Carbon Nanotube printed electronics.  The Project has about 30 students/research staff members working on various aspects of CNT printed electronics. We also make OLED Driver Circuit with the CNT electronics.

Dr Chan-Park did her PhD in polymers in MIT in 1993. She then did her postdoctoral fellow under the sponsorship of Dow Corning (USA).  She worked for 10 years in industries in various technical management positions in USA and Singapore. She was a senior technical manager in Sipix Imaging (CA, USA) from 1999-2001. She then joined the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) as Associate Professor in 2001. She is currently also Associate Chair of the School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering in NTU. 

Dr Chan-Park has a vibrant research group with about 10 postdoctoral fellows/research staff and 10 PhD/Masters. Her current interests are in Printed Carbon Nanotubes Electronics. She has published more than 100 peered review papers (in Advanced Functional Materials, Small, Chem Mat, Langmuir, Macromolecules, Applied Physics Letters, Nanotechnology, etc). She has also got 15 patents and several patent applications.  

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Please contact Professor Mary Chan-Park directly: Email: mbechan@ntu.edu.sg Website: http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/mbechan/

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