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Organization: DYNAMOL Initial Training Network

Location: Cambridge, UK

Field: Chemistry

Requirements:

These positions are open to suitable qualified researchers in the first four years of their research career. Please, refer to the MarieCurie Web site for eligibility details: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/mariecurieactions/glossary_en.html. Fellowships for Early Stage Researcher (ESRs) are fundable for three-year periods; additional funding will be made available in countries where PhD training lasts longer than three years. Desired skills/background: synthetic organic chemistry, materials chemistry, supramolecular chemistry.

Candidates should send their CV to Shirley Allen at sa605@cam.ac.uk. Please include a copy of your University degree and a cover letter outlining your specific qualifications, including contact information for at least two referees and indicate your preferred host group and willingness to be considered for other posts in the network.

http://www.dynamol.ch.cam.ac.uk

Abstract:

The DYNAMOL ITN is a research-training European network aimed to train a new generation of highly skilled chemists in dynamic covalent chemistry and push this emerging field of research into applications at the cutting-edge of nanotechnology. Expertise of all partners (9 from the academic sector and 2 from the private sector) encompasses the general areas of supramolecular chemistry and dynamic covalent chemistry, but individual research competences are quite diverse focussing on molecularly defined nanostructures, analysis of nanostructures, and novel applications.

Description:

Nanotechnology has become tremendously important but yet, general methods for the preparation of nano-sized materials in a bottom-up approach from low molecular weight building blocks are still in very short supply. This ITN will establish a powerful new approach for the preparation of nanostructures based on dynamic covalent chemistry. This method combines the advantages of covalent synthesis (robustness of the bonds) with those of non-covalent synthesis (error correction, responsiveness) without any of the disadvantages (lability in the case of non-covalent chemistry and synthetic difficulty in accessing large structures through traditional covalent synthesis). This approach therefore has the potential to provide unique solutions for several important challenges in the preparation of molecular nanostructures that still need to be addressed.

PhD Positions are available in the following research groups:

University of Technology Kaiserslauten (Germany). Dr. S. Kubik
Project: Template-directed Thiol Exchange on Gold Nanoparticle Surfaces.

University of Twente (The Netherlands). Dr. A. Velders
Project: Dynamic Ligand Exchange on Cyclodextrin Decorated Nanoparticles.

CAU Kiel - Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel (Germany) Dr. U. Lüning
Project: Boron-based Dendrimers

University of Cambridge (United Kingdom). Dr. J. Nitschke
Project: Dynamic Nanocage Assembly.

Université Bordeaux 1 (France). Dr. I. Huc
Project: Dynamic Foldamer Assembly: multiple helices from synthetic oligomers.

KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden). Dr. O. Ramström
Project: Assembly of Synthetic Capsides.

Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel). Dr. M. Van der Boom
Project: Self-Propagating Assembly of Molecular-based Materials

Micronit Microfluidics (The Netherlands). Dr. E. Vrouwe
Project: Localised Surface Functionalization within Microfluidic Channels.

Global Phasing (Cambridge, United Kingdom). Dr. G. Bricogne
Project: Supramolecular Chemistry and Macromolecular Crystallography

Deadline: 30-05-2011

Contacts:

Link: http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk

Email: sa605@cam.ac.uk

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