SCHOLARSHIPS / RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
We are always looking for excellent students and postdocs, and Australia/UNSW provides excellent opportunities for scholarship and awards. If you are interested in joining the team, please contact me at your convenience. Also be sure to check out the links below regarding scholarship opportunities.
Graduate Research Scholarships
Domestic Research Scholarships
SCHOLARSHIPS / RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
We are always looking for excellent students and postdocs, and Australia/UNSW provides excellent opportunities for scholarship and awards. If you are interested in joining the team, please contact me at your convenience. Also be sure to check out the links below regarding scholarship opportunities.
3 Postdoctoral Positions Available
Graduate Research Scholarships
Domestic Research Scholarships
International Research Scholarships
Home Country Joint Scholarships
Understanding Structure-Function Relationships for Chemically Complex Ceramic Materials
Project Summary:
Chemically complex ceramics (CCCs) are an exciting class of materials that exhibit unusual yet exciting thermal, mechanical, optical and catalytic properties. The complexity of these materials makes it difficult
to use rational design strategy, where Edisonian
approaches are used to hopefully obtain materials
with desired properties. In this project, we aim to
remove the guesswork out of CCCs creation by
constructing structure/function relationships using a suite of synchrotron characterization tools.
Materials will be generated using a range of traditional powder sintering approaches, along with
polymer templates approaches to create a range of CCCs based on carbides, nitrides, and/or borides. Stochastic modeling approaches of synchrotron datasets will provide insights into the local and nano-scale structures, providing a means to build structure/function relationships to
better understand the origin of materials properties. This project is funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and involves the use of synchrotron facilities in Australia, the US
and Europe and will involve collaborations across Schools at UNSW and at the US Air Force
Research Laboratory.
Read full project description.
bedfordresearchgroup@gmail.com