Within the recently awarded STW Perspective Program: Understanding Processes using Operando Nanoscopy (UPON) we are looking for a 4 year PhD student or a 3 year postdoc at the Delft University of Technology for project B2: Corrosion inhibition of aluminium alloys studied by in-situ TEM This PhD position is on a project in collaboration with AkzoNobel company on corrosion protection of aerospace aluminium alloys. Corrosion inhibitors can be released from organic coatings to protect the underlying metal in a coating defect upon damage. To find suitable inhibitors the local mechanism of the corrosion process and protection is studied in a liquid cell nanoreactor with a corrosive electrolyte and an applied electric field to perform electrochemical measurements in-situ in a transmission electron microscope to study corrosion inhibition and metal-inhibitor interactions locally. The nanoreactors will be produced in a parallel project within UPON (Understanding Processes using Operando Nanoscopy), an STW (www.stw.nl) and industry supported program consisting of 8 projects concentrating on the MEMS technique based development of nanoreactors and actual scientific and industrial applications (see the pdf). TEMs like a Cs corrected cubed FEI titan are available. Requirements:
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