Job Class: Student Research Assistant,

Pay Range $18.20-$19.20/hr,

Starting Oct 29 – Ending Dec 23 (eight weeks)

For a maximum of 15 hours per week

Job description: physics faculty in collaboration with a physics alumnus inventor seek a technically versatile student to help develop and run processes to separate semiconducting and metallic single walled carbon nanotubes. This important step in nanotechnology will enable lower cost high sensitivity biological and chemical sensors to be developed using carbon nanotubes. Student will learn and observe nanoparticle safety regimens, create nanotube aqueous suspensions using precision mass measurements and physical processes such as ultrasound “sonication” and centrifugation, run a sequence of separation steps using gel columns, and perform optical measurements of the suspensions before and after processing.

Minimum requirements: prior experience in basic lab measurements of length, volume, and mass. Aptitude in performing algebraic calculations of concentrations.

Preferred requirements: some prior experience in fluid physics experiments, use of test instruments (multimeters, oscilloscopes), basic electronics measurement, and knowledge of principles of sound wave propagation and centrifuge operation.