PhD Opportunities in Materials Science in United Kingdom

[4-year studentship with annual UKRI minimum stipend currently £21,805 per year, plus £1,000 per annum enhancement and a research training support grant of up to £20,000 for the full programme.] This 4-year PhD studentship at The University of Manchester sits at the interface of polymer chemistry, membrane biophysics, and protein science. The project is focused on developing a new generation of chemically defined amphiphilic polymers that can extract membrane proteins from their native lipid env...

[Competition-funded UoM-Peking dual award scheme; applicants are instructed to enter 'Dual award funding'.] This PhD studentship is part of the University of Manchester–Peking University dual award scheme and focuses on advanced energy materials for bright and efficient optoelectronic devices . The project addresses the challenge of reducing the energy consumption of lighting and displays while improving device performance, especially for organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) used in displays, s...

[Competition-funded UoM-Peking dual award scheme; applicants are instructed to enter 'Dual award funding' in the application. Not all advertised projects will offer a place on the programme.] This PhD studentship sits within a dual-award collaboration between The University of Manchester and Peking University and focuses on the chemistry of porous metal-organic framework (MOF) materials for the capture and separation of reactive air pollutants. The project addresses a major environmental challen...

[Annual stipend at the UKRI minimum rate currently £21,805 per year plus £1,000 per annum enhancement, and a research training support grant of up to £20,000 for the full 4-year programme.] This PhD studentship at The University of Manchester develops a new class of additively manufactured metallic acoustic metamaterials for shaping and amplifying sounds that matter for human communication. The project is designed around a human-informed inverse-design framework , where information about ear-can...

[Competition-funded dual award PhD under the UoM-Peking University scheme; funding information is referenced on the dedicated dual-award page.] This PhD studentship is part of the Manchester–Peking dual award scheme and focuses on the synthesis and characterisation of new actinide–ligand multiple bonds, with uranium and thorium chemistry at the centre of the project. Building on preliminary results with a new ligand class in f-element chemistry, the student will work toward unprecedented bonding...

[4-year PhD studentship with an annual stipend at the UKRI minimum rate (£21,805 per year) plus £1,000 per annum enhancement, and a research training support grant of up to £20,000 for the full 4-year programme.] This 4-year PhD studentship at The University of Manchester explores how circular business models and strategic collaboration can improve the sustainability and resilience of electric vehicle battery value chains. The project focuses on the transition from linear to circular battery sys...

[Annual stipend at the UKRI minimum rate currently £21,805 per year plus £1,000 per annum enhancement, with a research training support grant of up to £20,000 for the full 4-year programme.] This 4-year PhD studentship at The University of Manchester explores interdisciplinary methods for liquid crystal-based biosensing . The project focuses on how liquid crystals interact with prototype cells and soft flexible surfaces, and how those interactions can be turned into measurable sensing signals. T...

[4-year PhD studentship with an annual stipend at the UKRI minimum rate currently £21,805 per year plus £1,000 per annum enhancement, and a research training support grant of up to £20,000 for the full programme.] This 4-year PhD studentship at The University of Manchester explores how T cells sense their environment through the nanoscale organisation of signals at the immune synapse. The project asks how stimulatory, co-stimulatory, inhibitory, and adhesive cues are arranged, clustered, and reo...

[Competition-funded dual award PhD studentship under the UoM-Peking University scheme; applicants are instructed to enter 'Dual award funding'.] This PhD project sits at the intersection of electronic structure theory, magnetism, and functional molecular materials. The student will work on developing improved density functional approximations for challenging organic conjugated systems where magnetic effects make standard density functional theory less reliable. The central aim is to design a mor...