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Are you looking to do a PhD project and are you interested in catalysis, spectroscopy, mechano-chemistry, or polymer science to develop a sustainable pathway for plastic waste recycling through mechano-catalytic conversion? Join us in shaping a greener future!
Decades of polymer engineering have led to various plastic materials with a variety of tuneable properties and applications. Considerably less effort has gone into strategies on how to deal with the waste created. Only 13.5% of plastics made in the EU consist of recycling content, mainly because current recycling technology leads to a lower quality material. Chemical recycling is hailed as the solution but still has to take off. Join us in advancing chemical recycling methods and make a meaningful impact on plastic waste management!
Use your experience in catalysis, polymer science and/or mechano-chemistry to develop new recycling technologies for plastics using ball milling. You will enter a relatively unexplored field of chemistry together with an expanding team of PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers.
The core objective of this project is to pioneer the conversion of polyolefins into essential chemical building blocks like monomers. By unravelling the intricate interplay between mechanical forces, catalysis, and polymer chain cleavage, you will gain valuable insights into the fundamental mechanisms shaping the future of recycling technology. You will develop operando spectroscopic techniques to track the bond cleavage during ball milling. Embrace the array of cutting-edge spectroscopic and analytic techniques (e.g., EPR, SEC, Raman, IR and TGA) within the Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis (ICC) section, becoming an expert in mechano-catalytic depolymerisation. As part of this project, you will excel in a top chemistry group with an extensive variety of state-of-the-art equipment.
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We are looking for 2 collaborative and enthusiastic PhD candidates who meet several or all of the following criteria:
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