Research Fellow in Sustainable batteries for seamless textile electronics for healthcare
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Job Description
This is a Research Fellow position focused on developing sustainable, flexible batteries for seamless textile electronics in healthcare. The role involves using water, lithium, and polymer fabrics to create non-toxic, deformable batteries for wearable medical sensors, with a key requirement being a PhD in chemistry or materials science. The project emphasizes collaborative work and aims to build functional demonstrations of textile electronics.
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Key Responsibilities
- Via collaborative work with leading textile designers, experts in printed electronics and wireless communications and sustainability analysts, the SUSTAIN program will build working demonstrations of textile electronics that can act as wearable doctors.
Requirements
- Such batteries could power sensors to continuously monitor vital signals (e.g. glucose) and antennas to immediately transmit the information to a medical doctor when urgent action is required.
- This post is suitable for chemists or materials scientists with a PhD (awarded or imminent) in chemistry, materials science or a closely related discipline or equivalent qualification and experience.
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The position is based at University of Southampton, in Highfield, GB. Check the job description above for flexible or hybrid arrangements.
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