Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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4313385 Industrial Chemistry and Introduction to Chemical Research | OB | 0 | 1 |
Teaching, including teaching materials handed over to students, will be in English, hence good communication skills in English are necessary.
The course assumes that the student has a solid chemical background (that typically shown by graduate students in Chemistry).
This focus of this subject is the study of the chemical properties of specific materials that are currently of interest for either research or Industry. The couse will cover selected examples of molecular, supramolecular, nanostructured and bulk materials, their corresponding applications in different fields and relevant techniques for their characterization.
- Supramolecular devices and materials: molecular recognition and self-assembly; supramolecular photophysics and photochemistry; molecular devices and machines; supramolecular materials (monolayers, films, vesicles, gels). (8 h) Jordi Hernando.
- Metal nanoparticles, quantum dots, nanotubes, graphenes, fullerenes, liquid crystals. Mª José Esplandiu (7 h).
- Metal-Organic Frameworks: from molecules and metal ions to crystals and superstructures; The course will be dedicated to the structural description of the different networks (secondary building approach), the different synthetic strategies and the properties related to the porosity of these materials (gas storage, gas separation, catalysis among others). We will focus on some theoretical aspects of the adsorption phenomena in porous materials. Inhar Imaz (4 h).
- Synchrotron; Interaction Radiation-Matter; Synchrotron Radiation; Into a Synchrotron; Synchrotron Techniques: spectroscopy, scattering and imaging. Montserrat López-Mesas (5 h)
- Membranes: Introduction to Membranes; Advances in Membranes. Montserrat López-Mesas (2 h)
- Materials and microfabrication technologies for miniaturized systems: Micrototal analysis systems (μTAS)/Lab on a Chip technology; Silicon and glass; Microelectronics Micromachining; Polymers; Low Temperature Cofired Ceramics (LTCC); Paper. Maria del Mar Puyol (7 h).
- Applications of metal nanoparticles in catalysis. Roser Pleixats (4 h)
- Materials for Sustainable Energy: (a) Xavier Sala (4h), sustainable energy; solar fuels; artificial photosynthesis; water splitting; water oxidation; water reduction; CO2 reduction. (b) Monica Lira (2h),Nanostructured Materials for Photovoltaic Energy: Emerging photovoltaic technologies vs. comercial Silicon-base solar cells; Perovskite solar cells.
Theory Lectures
The lecturer will explain the syllabus to the classroom using blackboard and multimedia material, which will be made available to the students in the "Campus Virtual" in Moodle environment. These expositive sessions will conform most of the theory lecturing of the syllabus.
Personal Study
Personal work by the student is a very important, almost indispensible aspect of the students' attitude towards passing the topic. Besides the most obvious areas (like readying and studying notes and books, preparing exercises, etc.) specific, well delimited areas of the theory syllabus will be left to the students to work out by themselves. In these cases, personal consultation hours will be made available to help coalescing the knowledge gained by the students.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Theory Lectures | 38 | 1.52 | 1, 3, 4, 7, 5, 8, 9, 11 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Personal Work and Study | 92 | 3.68 | 2, 7, 14 |
- Every professor decides the number and typology of evaluation activities: oral presentations,
written exams, delivery of discussed articles, small tests...
- The final mark of the module will be the sum of the mark of every professor multiplied by the
percentage of his classes in the total teaching of the module.
- The marks of the written exams must be above 3.5 over 10 in order to average with other marks of the
professor and/or the module.
- There will be a period in January to repeat written exams with marks under 5 over 10 (second-chance exams). In the case of exams
under 3,5 over 10 will be mandatory to the student, in case of exams between 3,5 and 5 over 10 would be optional to
the student.
- In the case that a student does not reach a mark of 3.5 over 10 after the second-chance exam in January, the coordinator
of the module could decide to average this mark with the rest of the module. However, this option can
only be considered for two written exams in the whole master.
- The marks of other evaluations activities (i. e. oral presentations) will average with the rest of the
marks of the professor/module independently of the value. There will be no option of repeating these
other evaluation activities.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Oral Presentations | 20% | 4 | 0.16 | 2, 13, 14, 6 |
Turned-In Exercises | 30% | 6 | 0.24 | 2, 7, 5, 11, 13, 12, 10, 14, 6 |
Written Exams | 50% | 10 | 0.4 | 1, 3, 4, 8, 9, 11, 14 |
Every lecturer will provide the students with a list of appropriate references (scientific papers, books, links, etc...) for each part of the syllabus.