PhD position: Nanoelectronics and nanofluidics combined with graphene edge sensors

Job description

A PhD position in the Leiden Institute of Chemistry, the group of Grégory Schneider. Disciplines: Graphene and 2D materials, Graphene sensors, Nanophysics, Nanopore fabrication, Molecular Breakjunctions, Nanofabrication. What you will do: The PhD project aims at fabricating and characterizing graphene edge sensors for single molecule detection and biopolymer sequencing. Nanofabrication of such devices will require the development of techniques that integrate nanofluidics with nanoelectronics, where the candidate previous experience in these field is an asset. The PhD student will be supervised jointly by Grégory Schneider (Leiden Institute of Chemistry) and Jan van Ruitenbeek (Leiden Institute of Physics). About the research project: DNA sequencing has become a widely accessible and affordable technology. Yet, the development has currently slowed down, and wider applications require further advances. Now, with the added goals of sequencing proteins and polysaccharides, current state-of-the-art single molecule sensors, that obtain information indirectly by measuring the ionic current of molecular ions through nanopores, cannot discriminate between moieties of similar molecular size...