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Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has
thought
Albert Szent-Györgi
A number of openings are available at all levels, undergraduate students to work with
existing graduate students and then progress towards a Senior Project, graduate student PhD
projects and opportunities for postdoctoral positions. Below is a short list; please email L-marks
at northwestern.edu for more information
Available projects
- Oxide Catalysis. Work to produce more energy
efficient, greener catalysts with one of the largest groups of scientists in the world working on this
problem.
- Oxide
Surfaces. Explore the fundamentals of why certain types of oxide surfaces form, others do not,
so we can start to design them for applications ranging from microelectronics through
catalysis.
- Metal-on-Metal Replacement Hip Joints. Work to better understand how these work, why they fail
and how to make them better joint with scientists from Rush Medical School and Germany. (Openings
starting in January 2010 for undergraduate students.)
- Tribology. We waste vast amounts of energy to
friction, something which has been known for more than 2000 years but we still do not really
understand it.
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