Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 1 Year
This specialist course in polymer science is designed to train and expose you to the most modern aspects of polymer science. This course is excellent preparation for a career in industry or continued academic studies at the forefront of polymer science.
Laboratory training covers a range of polymer synthesis methods and analytical techniques including size-exclusion chromatography, viscosity analysis, and IR and NMR spectroscopy. Other modules cover polymer design in a wide variety of industries, how polymer science can support sustainability, radical polymerisation, and biopolymers ranging from proteins and DNA to innovative drug delivery systems.
Minimum 2:1 undergraduate honours degree in chemistry, chemical physics, chemical engineering, materials or a related subject.
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Polymer chemistry is central to many different products - from oils, paints and coatings, to food, cleaning agents and cosmetics, to medical, agricultural and aerospace technologies.
University of Sheffield graduates have been hired by many companies in the polymer industry, including AkzoNobel, Infineum, Lubrizol and Scott Bader. Our chemistry graduates have also been employed by consumer goods companies such as Unilever and Reckitt, pharmaceutical companies such as AstraZeneca and GSK, and chemical companies such as Croda and Dow.
Our Polymer Chemistry MSc is also excellent training for a PhD in polymer science. Our graduates have secured postgraduate research positions at many of the world's top 100 universities.
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