Closing Date: 25 May 2006

The goal of the NANOTOOL Early Stage Training site is to provide young scientists at the beginning of their activity with key concepts and methods concerning the chemical elaboration and properties of nano-objects (metal nanoparticles, dendrimers, polymers or surfactant aggregates) with three complementary aspects:

• the chemical synthesis leading to size- and shape- controlled nano-objects,
• the control of their organization and mesostructure in volume or along a surface
• their properties in catalysis, biology and material science.

Within this framework, three full doctoral fellowships are now available. The corresponding research projects are entitled:

1. Catanionic dendrimers for anti-HIV polychemiotherapies,
2. Water-soluble ZnO nano-objects: synthesis, toxicity and biomedical applications,
3. Magnetic liquid crystal elastomers.

For more details as well as information concerning the recruitment procedure, see our web site: http://www.lcc-toulouse.fr/nanotool/