5 POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS 

3 years (possibility of extension to 5 years)
Sino–UK Nano Energy Material Centre, HUST 

Closing date: 7^th October 2016 

Interview Date: To be confirmed 

Salary: Depending on qualifications and experience        Range: Annually 150,000-300,000 CNY

Informal enquiries to: Dr. Shangbin Jin, email: jinsb@hust.edu.cn 

1. POSTS: 

We are seeking 5 outstanding postdoctoral researchers in the broad area of energy materials to support the recently established Sino–UK Nano Energy Material Centre, which is a strategic collaboration between Huazhong University of Science & Technology (HUST) in China and the University of Liverpool, UK. The posts will be based at HUST, but the successful candidates will also have the opportunity to spend time in the Materials Innovation Factory in Liverpool. Professor Andy Cooper FRS (“1000 Talents scheme” Professor in China), who is the Director of the Sino–UK Nano Energy Material Centre will supervise the project. Professor Bien Tan at HUST will provide local supervision.  

Web-links:

HUST (Chemistry):  http://english.chem.hust.edu.cn 

Cooper Group, Liverpool: www.liv.ac.uk/cooper-group/ 

Materials Innovation Factory: www.liverpool.ac.uk/materials-innovation-factory/ 

Candidates should have a Ph.D. in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, or other relevant discipline. We will consider outstanding applicants in any area of functional energy materials, but we would particularly encourage applicants with a background in the following areas:

·             Photochemical water splitting

·             Porous solids

·             Computational materials chemistry

·             Conjugated polymer synthesis and/or organic electronics

·             Gas capture and/or storage; gas separations

·             Organic materials (general); synthesis and function

Relevant recent publications: These publications give a flavour of areas that we are interested in:

“Visible Light-Driven Hydrogen Evolution Using Planarized Conjugated Polymer Photocatalysts”, R. S. Sprick, B. Bonillo, R. Clowes, P. Guiglion, N. J. Brownbill, B. J. Slater, F. Blanc, M. A. Zwijnenburg, D. J. Adams, A. I. Cooper, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2016, 55, 1792-1796.

“Porous Organic Cage Thin Films and Molecular-Sieving Membranes”, Qilei Song, Shan Jiang, Tom Hasell, Ming Liu, Shijing Sun, Anthony K. Cheetham, Easan Sivaniah and Andrew I. Cooper, Adv. Mater., 2016, 28, 2629–2637.

“Tunable Organic Photocatalysts for Visible Light-Driven Hydrogen Evolution”, R.S. Sprick, J.-X. Jiang, B. Bonillo, S. Ren, T. Ratvijitvech, P. Guiglion, M.A. Zwijnenburg, D.J. Adams, and A.I. Cooper, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137, 3265-3270.

“Understanding Static, Dynamic and Cooperative Porosity in Molecular Materials”, D. Holden, S. Y. Chong, L. Chen, K. E. Jelfs, T. Hasell and A. I. Cooper, Chem. Sci., 2016, 7, 4875-4879.

“Liquids with permanent porosity”, N. Giri, M. G. Del Pópolo, G. Melaugh, R. L. Greenaway, K. Rätzke, T. Koschine, L. Pison, M. F. Costa Gomes, A. I. Cooper, S. L. James, Nature, 2015, 527, 216–220.

“Function-led design of new porous materials”, A. G. Slater, A. I. Cooper, Science, 2015, 348, 988.

“Trapping virtual pores by crystal retro-engineering”, M. A. Little, M. E. Briggs, J. T. A. Jones, M. Schmidtmann, T. Hasell, S. Y. Chong, K. E. Jelfs, L. Chen and A. I. Cooper, Nature Chem., 2015, 7, 153–159.

“Separation of rare gases and chiral molecules by selective binding in porous organic cages”,

L. Chen, P. S. Reiss, S. Y. Chong, D. Holden, K. E. Jelfs, T. Hasell, M. A. Little, A. Kewley, M. E. Briggs, A. Stephenson, K. M. Thomas, J. A. Armstrong, J. Bell, J. Busto, R. Noel, J. Liu, D. M. Strachan, P. K. Thallapally and A. I. Cooper, Nature Mater., 2014, 13, 954–960.

“Swellable, Water- and Acid-Tolerant Polymer Sponges for Chemoselective Carbon Dioxide Capture”, R. T. Woodward, L. A. Stevens, R. Dawson, M. Vijayaraghavan, T. Hasell, I. P. Silverwood, A. V. Ewing, T. Ratvijitvech, J. D. Exley, S. Y. Chong, F. Blanc, D. J. Adams, S. G. Kazarian, C. E. Snape, T. C. Drage, and A. I. Cooper, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136, 9028–9035.

“Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Gas Selectivity in Amorphous Porous Molecular Solids”, S. Jiang, K. E. Jelfs, D. Holden, T. Hasell, S. Y. Chong, M. Haranczyk, A. Trewin, and A. I. Cooper, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135, 17818–17830.

“Molecular shape sorting using molecular organic cages”, T. Mitra, K. E. Jelfs, M. Schmidtmann, A. Ahmed, S. Y. Chong, D. J. Adams and A. I. Cooper, Nature Chem., 2013, 5, 276–281.

“Nanoporous Organic Polymer/Cage Composite Membranes”, A. F. Bushell, P. M. Budd, M. P. Attfield, J. T. A. Jones, T. Hasell, A. I. Cooper, P. Bernardo, F. Bazzarelli, G. Clarizia, and J. C. Jansen, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 2013, 52, 1253–1256. 

“Modular and predictable assembly of porous organic molecular crystals”, J. T. A. Jones, T. Hasell, X. Wu, J. Bacsa, K. E. Jelfs, M. Schmidtmann, S. Y. Chong, D. J. Adams, A. Trewin, F. Schiffmann, F. Cora, B. Slater, A. Steiner, G. M. Day and A. I. Cooper, Nature, 2011, 474, 367–371.

Examples of other relevant publications can be found at the websites above. 

2. Sino–UK Nano Energy Material Centre 

Sino–UK Nano Energy Material Centre is a new collaboration between HUST and the University of Liverpool. The Institute will be based in the new Energy Center in Wuhan (below), where 1200 m² of space has been allocated. There will also be frequent exchange of staff to and from Sino–UK Nano Energy Material Centre and the Materials Innovation Factory in Liverpool (below). The long-term mission of Sino–UK Nano Energy Material Centre is to create disruptive new energy technologies that will improve the environment and benefit society. These posts will be a key driving force for this new activity.

3. The Materials Innovation Factory 

Our vision is for MIF to be a major world leading research and innovation centre serving the University of Liverpool and our industrial and academic collaborators. It will both carry out cutting-edge fundamental and applied research and also provide co-located business clients with unrivalled facilities and expertise in high throughput materials discovery, characterisation, and formulation. The MIF building will include both private and shared laboratories, analytical facilities, and high throughput robotic capabilities to dramatically accelerate research, both for material science fundamentals and also for commercial product innovation.

Construction of the 11,600 m² MIF building commenced last year with completion scheduled for first quarter of 2017 (for webcam of construction, see: www.liverpool.ac.uk/materials-innovation-factory/news/mif-construction). When fully operational, the MIF facility will accommodate around 300 academic and industrial researchers and house over £15–20M of the most advanced scientific equipment within state-of-the-art laboratories. The MIF will provide an outstanding modern research environment designed to facilitate collaboration, networking and knowledge exchange.      

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