Marie Skłodowska Curie (MSCA) Individual Fellowships 2016 Recruitment Information

Principal Investigator: Dr Sofia Pascu

Department: Chemistry

Link to research webpage: http://www.bath.ac.uk/chemistry/contacts/academics/sofia_pascu/

Short description of research area to investigate with a potential MC Fellow (Please keep within this page):

This proposal is in the context of our recent work in designing and testing new functional 1D and 2D nanomaterials and particularly our quest for new, functional hybrid nanomaterials with optoelectronic properties thus far unexplored which are of relevance to enhancing our understanding of future materials for light harvesting and energy conversion applications as well as in sensing for healthcare applications and point-of-care device constructions and testing.

We believe this MC IEF grant will give us the opportunity to generate a strong addition to the community of researchers with suitable skills to tackle the challenges in the ever expanding field of functional materials for new and promising transparent conductive film materials assembled by supramolecular polymers and includes aspects of dynamic combinatorial chemistry.

Particularly, the research programme aims to demonstrate that (using lifetime imaging techniques in solution and in the solid state) the hypothesis that the solution-based optical and supramolecular properties functionalised porphyrins are transferred to the thin film when these species are anchored either covalently or supramolecularly onto carbon nanomaterials can be probed. So far our earlier work has given rise to new surface adsorbed arrays with interesting fluorescence output profiles and the MC IEF candidate with a suitable match for this project will gain all the necessary support in developing new skills in this area.

The candidate will develop all the necessary background to tackle significant problems at the interface between coordination chemistry, supramolecular chemistry as well as healthcare applications. We have all the necessary infrastructure and, together with collaborators at the Research Complex at Harwell, we are confident that the extremely supportive environment will be created, and all the technical and experimental support is available.