Tag: biophysics
New review paper on ssNMR studies of polysaccharide hydrogels
PhD student Mustapha El Hariri El Nokab has put together a nice new review of solid-state NMR studies of polysaccharide hydrogels, which is now out in the journal Carbohydrate Polymers. This review is part of his research project that make use of solid-state NMR (and other tools) to look at functional polysaccharide hydrogels. This new research direction in the lab also constitutes part of our participation in the new Physics of Cancer (www.phycan.nl) initiative of the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials.
Please find the open-access published paper at the journal Carbohydrate Polymers:
Competitive PhD Scholarships call open (deadline April 1st)
Our Institute and Faculty have opened up a competitive call for PhD scholarship applications. Our solid-state NMR group participates in one of the research theme areas, designated as “Advanced Materials”, which spans topics from physics of life, via bio-inspired materials, to materials and much more. The process is described in some detail on the RuG website. Briefly, applicants (with a MSc degree) are expected to contact a PI/supervisor (immediately!) and develop a fitting project to submit. The submission deadline of an initial idea (few hundred words) is due by April 1st 2020!
Suitable ideas are expected to fit within designated topics areas, described on the website here and here. Note especially also the 2nd link, as it contains important detailed information.T
Interested in this? Please contact us as soon as possible, to meet the tight deadlines. Together we can consider topics that range from self-assembling bio-inspired materials, Physics of Cancer, non-biological materials and other topics. Projects will be highly interdisciplinary as the involvement of a second supervisor is also required, with a distinct and complementary expertise.