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Research Proposal

This is the really fun part. Within this section you will outline the experiment(s) that you propose that will add to the existing body of knowledge in your topic area.

The research that you propose should take approximately 8-12 months for someone skilled in the art to complete. In other words, your research proposal needs to consist of more than simply adding polystyrene to a sodium chloride solution and seeing whether the polymer floats or not (just so you're not left in a state of unbelievable suspense I'll tell you that the polystyrene floats).

The way to approach the research proposal is to familiarize yourself with the literature in your topic area (see, there's a reason I'm making you do the Literature Report - I'm not just torturing you!).

As you read the literature or think back to a paper that you've read ask yourself questions such as "What if the system was perturbed in some specific manner such as the addition of various Lewis or Brønsted acids?", or "Would the stability of stability of polydimethylsiloxane increase if it was heated to 350°C during crosslinking?".

Once you have a few of these questions, and they should all somehow relate to the same idea/concept, postulate a hypothesis for each question and design experiments that would help you answer these questions.

Remember, you are not being asked to anticipate the results; you just need to answer the questions that you've asked and design experiments that will provide evidence to support or refute your hypotheses. One of the hallmarks of any good research proposal is anticipating the situation(s) where your experiments don't work - you should think about whether the data that you do get in these scenarios is useful to you or if you will require another experiment to compensate.

The impetus for this type of approach being that a granting agency doesn't want to give you $100,000 and have you do experiments that don't provide any meaningful results.

Attachment:- Research Proposal.rar