Scholarship in UK (The University of Cambridge)

Studentship for Doctoral Studies for EU/UK citizens
Study Subject:Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
Employer:The University of Cambridge
Level: PhD
Scholarship Description: Geoengineering” solutions offer a potential strategy for mitigation of the effects of climate change. Solar radiation management through the injection of particles into the stratosphere is one such solution: the injection of sulfate particles as a consequence of volcanic eruptions has demonstrated the efficacy of this methodology. It is however desirable to engineer particles with superior properties to their natural analogues.
This project aims to address the nature of the optimum particle required through studying the adsorption and reactivity of gas molecules on particle surfaces. This has close parallels with the development of catalysts where understanding these processes is also of fundamental importance. To this end microbalance and other analytical techniques will be applied.
Additionally the apparatus used will be modified to operate at stratospherically relevant conditions. The project will run in close collaboration with a number of different partners including the Central Laser Facility (Harwell Science and Innovation Campus) where adsorption measurements on single particles constrained within optical tweezers will be conducted.
Scholarship Application Deadline: no later than 1 March 2011