About the project
In this project you will produce and characterise a new group of nanomaterials. You will develop a broad range of experimental and data analysis skills in an active materials group in Southampton, at the premises of the industry partner and in a national central facilities laboratory.
High entropy alloys are solid solutions of several metals and hold tremendous potential for catalysis, energy storage, and biomedical applications. For example, read this publication High-Entropy Alloys as a Platform for Catalysis: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities for an account of synthesis and properties from a catalysis perspective.
Partnering with Platina Biomed, you will use a range of typical inorganic materials synthesis methods to produce nanoparticles of these materials at a size scale useful for medical imaging technologies. The project combines synthesis with detailed in-house characterisation using the excellent diffraction and microscopy facilities available in the School of Chemistry.
In addition, there will be opportunities to undertake magnetic measurements on the materials at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire.
