Materials R&D · Internship

Ionic Capacitive Materials Intern

Responsibilities

Research, select, and prepare ion gels, hydrogels, and ionically conductive elastomers.
Adjust formulations under guidance and perform mixing, coating, curing, molding, and packaging experiments.
Prepare ionic capacitive or flexible sensor samples and validate electrodes, dielectric layers, conductive layers, and encapsulation.
Test thickness, hardness, tensile behavior, adhesion, stability, and capacitance, maintaining structured records.
Investigate bubbles, delamination, debonding, variation, and reproducibility issues; support process improvements.
Organize samples, materials, and consumables and follow laboratory safety and operating procedures.

Current student or recent graduate at bachelor’s level or above in materials, chemistry, chemical engineering, polymers, physics, mechanics, or biomedical engineering.
Interest in ionic capacitance, flexible sensors/electronics, or functional polymers, with a willingness to learn.
Basic experimental skills for sample preparation and testing; relevant project experience is not required.
Careful experimental records and basic data comparison using Excel or similar tools.
Reliable, detail-oriented, analytical, and communicative.
Consistent attendance; internship duration and weekly availability can be discussed based on the project and candidate.

Exposure to ion gels, hydrogels, ionic liquids, conductive polymers, or elastomers.
Course, competition, or research experience with flexible/capacitive sensors, electronic skin, or wearables.
Experience with solution preparation, weighing, mixing, vacuum degassing, coating, curing, molding, printing, or encapsulation.
Experience with tensile testers, durometers, LCR meters, electrochemical workstations, or related equipment.
Basic analysis and plotting in Origin, MATLAB, or Python, and good literature-search skills.