Research Group: Chemistry Number of Students: 1 Length of Study in Years: 3 Years Full-time Project: yes
This studentship is open to Mexican students applying for CONACyT funding. CONACyT will provide a contribution towards your tuition fees each year and Queen Mary will waive the remaining fee. CONACyT will pay a stipend towards living costs to its scholars.
Room temperature phosphorescence (RTP) from organic materials has attracted significant attention due to their potential applications as displays, chemical sensors, bioimaging, at a lower energy consumption cost and more sustainable end of life recycling. These applications benefit from long-lived excited states. Strategies for enhancing phosphoresce emission in metal-free materials include the addition of heavy atoms, heteroatoms, and crystal engineering. Recent investigations have shown that doping with organic molecules at low concentrations can significantly increase the excited-state lifetime. However, the mechanism behind this behaviour is yet to be understood.
In this project, aided by atomistic simulations, excited state modelling and time-resolved spectroscopy, the PhD student will investigate how doping with organic molecules affect the excited-state lifetimes of RTP materials. In this project, aided by atomistic simulations, excited state modelling and time-resolved spectroscopy, the PhD student will investigate how doping with organic molecules affect the excited-state lifetimes of RTP materials and propose new combinations of host/dopant materials.
Applications are invited from outstanding Mexican candidates with or expecting to receive a first or upper-second class master's degree in Chemistry or an area relevant to the project. A standalone master's degree, or undergraduate integrated master's degree are required for this position.
Applicants are encouraged to contact Dr Rachel Crespo-Otero on r.crespo-otero@qmul.ac.uk prior to their submission by sending a CV and a description of their interests and expertise relevant to the project.
Please use the link below to apply for this project:
https://www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/subjects/chemistry.html
SPCS Academics: Dr Rachel Crespo-Otero