Post-Doc Positions available at IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA

There are several postdoctoral openings for synthetic chemists, polymer chemists, and material scientists at IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA. Two of the available synthetic positions are described below. Potential applicants can apply directly through the IBM website (https://jobs3.netmedia1.com/cp/search.jsp).

Job description (RES-0313667)

We are seeking a candidate for a postdoctoral appointment working in the area of catalysis and polymer synthesis. The candidate should have extensive expertise in organic chemistry, including small molecule synthesis, characterization, and reaction mechanisms. Applicants familiar with the areas of catalysis and polymer chemistry are preferred. In addition, experience in synthetic methodologies employing carbon dioxide, including supercritical carbon dioxide, is desirable. The candidate will work as part of an interdisciplinary team and should have good written and oral communication skills. (PhD required)

Job description (RES-0349014)

We are seeking a candidate for a postdoctoral appointment working on the synthesis and self assembly of organic-inorganic hybrid materials. The candidate should have extensive expertise in polymer chemistry including controlled polymerization reactions and characterization of polymers and polymeric assemblies. Candidates familiar with supramolecular or macromolecular self-assembly are preferred. A PhD degree is a requirement for this position. The candidate will work as part of an interdisciplinary team and should have good written and oral communication skills. (PhD required)

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

Some MSc Thesis in Chemistry available online

Some thesis works carried out by our fellow chemists are now available online. This way these research works can be viewed from any part of the world. Specially it will help graduate students in Nepal who are doing chemistry related research works. If your thesis or journal article is available online or want to put online and make it accessible to everyone, plz send us an email at nchemgrad@gmail.com

Some documents presented here are downloaded and printable and some are not. It solely depends on the authorization that we receive from author. If you can not download and/or print, let the author know.

We will add more of such research works as we receive in future.

1.  End point detection with Gran Plot and inherent titration error,Basant Giri, MSc thesis, CDC-TU. Advisor-Prof Raja Ram Pradhananga
2. Ab Initio Dynamics Simulation of Molecular Gyroscope, Ananta Babu Marahatta, MS thesis, Department of Chemistry, Tohoku University, Japan, Advisor-Prof Hirohiko Kono
3. THIN FILM CuS ELECTRODE FOR THE DETERMINATION OF Cu2+, Cr3+ & Fe3+ IN AQUEOUS SOLUTION, Basu Panthi, MSc thesis, CDC-TU, Advisor-Prof Raja Ram Pradhananga

4. EXTRACTION AND ESTIMATION OF THORIUM (IV) IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLES, Ramjee Kandel, MSc Thesis, CDC-TU, Advisor-Prof Kamal K Shrestha

End point Detection with Gran Plot and Titration Error
Ab Initio Dynamics Simulation of the Molecular Gyroscope

THIN FILM CuS ELECTRODE FOR THE DETERMINATION OF Cu2+, Cr3+ & Fe3+ IN AQUEOUS SOLUTION
EXTRACTION AND ESTIMATION OF THORIUM (IV) IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLES

Purdue Chemistry Family Celebrated The Nobel Prize

Hari Khatri, PhD Student at Department of Chemistry, Purdue University

Prof Negishi with a glass of drink in the program

We organized a program to celebrate The Nobel in Chemistry 2010. Professor Ei-ichi Negishi   in our department has shared 2010 Nobel prize in Chemistry with two other chemistry professors. Chemistry students, faculties and staffs were on the program to listen his valuable words. I was so excited to hear this news this morning. Since morning   Purdue chemistry students and faculties were excited to congratulate and honor the great Nobel laureate, Negishi. Of course it was the one of the greatest opportunity to congratulate their own mentor/teacher at the same department. The short honoring celebration was held at 4:00 pm on the behalf of Chemistry department. 

with Nobel Laureate today

Prof Negishi's contribution in chemistry is the palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling, that allows for easy and efficient synthesis of complex organic compounds that have had an enormous impact on the manufacture of medicines and other products. The Nobel Prize was bestowed primarily on the strength of 10 seminal papers published from 1976 to 1978, said Negishi, who came to Purdue in 1966 as a postdoctoral researcher under the late Herbert C. Brown, who won the Nobel Prize in 1979. Negishi has discovered catalytic reactions using a number of transition metals that allow various organic compounds to be synthesized widely, efficiently and selectively for use in fields ranging from medicine to materials development. His work has resulted in dramatically reducing the cost of using such metals, like palladium, in the synthesis. Personally, Professor Negishi is a intriguing mentor and teacher among students who always encourages his students to creative thinking in the field of organic chemistry.

Prof Negishi's contribution to science

Prof  Negishi is the third Nobel laureate from Purdue university (H. C. Brown, chemistry 1979, Kevin Gurney, Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, and Ei-ichi Negishi, Chemistry 2010). 

Below are two small video clips recorded by myself. Video quality is not very good.

 Part 1

Part 2

What is Graphene? This years Nobel in Physics Goes to Graphene

Graphene is made of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb pattern, forming a single layer so thin that it’s nearly see-through. 

The 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to University of Manchester physicists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov who performed the first experiments on graphene, a two-dimensional sheet of carbon atoms. 

In the video, Profesor explains some basics about graphene.

In the second video watch an interview with one of the Nobel Prize Physics winner

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry to be Announced on Wednesday 9.45am GMT

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2010 will be announced on Thursday 7 October, 11:00 a.m. GMT by Swedish Academy, Stockholm, Sweden. 

You can watch the live webcast from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden, on Wednesday 6 October, 11:45 a.m. CET, 9:45 a.m. GMT, at the earliest (3:45am MT, 5.45am ET, 4:45CT in the USA). Following the announcement, an interview will be held with one of the Nobel Committee members about the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.


Watch it live below.

 

2010 Nobel in Physics has been awarded to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov for the study of graphene and 2010 Nobel in Medicine has been awarded to Robert G. Edwards "for the development of in vitro fertilization".