Undergraduate Summer Intern - Membrane Durability

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Mar 27

Applications are closed

Internship
Full-time
Summer Internship
Research & Development
Science
$34K - $54.4K
Golden

Requirements

Must be enrolled as a full-time student in a Bachelor's, Master's or PhD degree program, or graduated in the past 12 months from an accredited institution. Candidates who have earned a degree may work for a period not to exceed 12 months. Must have a minimum of a 3.0 cumulative grade point average.
Preferred Qualifications:
An acceptable candidate should have experience with membrane material for electrochemical devices and requisite analysis and characterization methods including but not limited to NMR, impedance analysis, Raman spectroscopy.

Responsibilities

This position will support research in NREL’s Chemistry and Nanoscience Center focused on understanding polymer/membrane degradation in support of the development of electrochemical energy conversion devices. The candidate will work as part of a diverse team to support various projects with academic, industrial, or national laboratory partners. Common job tasks will include efforts such as polymer characterization and/or membrane characterization specifically focused on postmortem analysis.
The candidate will be responsible for performing polymer and/or membrane related research, coordinating with their mentor on experimental design, materials screening, reviewing data and iterating on research focus. The materials of interest will predominantly be ion containing polymers used under aqueous conditions. There are research needs in both the polymer chemistry area as well as membrane fabrication including the possibility of composite and/or bipolar membrane architectures.
The overarching goal for this work is to identify promising polymers and membranes that will provide durable performance under operation in electrochemical energy conversion devices or in separations applications.

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