Chemistry for Specific Materials of Interest to Industry and Research
Code: 42428 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4313385 Industrial Chemistry and Introduction to Chemical Research | OB | 0 | 1 |
Contact
- Name:
- Xavier Sala Roman
- Email:
- xavier.sala@uab.cat
Use of Languages
- Principal working language:
- english (eng)
Teachers
- Roser Pleixats Rovira
- Jordi Hernando Campos
- Maria Jose de Montserrat Esplandiu Egido
- Roberto Boada Romero
- Maria del Mar Puyol Bosch
External teachers
- Inhar Imaz
Prerequisites
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).
Objectives and Contextualisation
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.
Competences
- Apply materials and biomolecules to innovative fields of chemical industry and research.
- Correctly apply new information capture and organisation technologies to solve problems in professional activity.
- Define specialised concepts, principles, theories and facts in the different areas of Chemistry.
- Evaluate the human, economic, legal and ethical dimension of professional practice, as well as the environmental implications of one's work.
- Foster innovation and entrepreneurship in chemical industry and research.
- Identify information in the scientific literature using the appropriate channels and integrating said information to approach and contextualise a research issue.
- Innovate in chemical synthesis and analysis methods related with different areas of Chemistry.
- Possess and understand knowledge that provides a basis or opportunity for originality in the development and/or application of ideas, often in a research context
- Student should possess an ability to learn that enables them to continue studying in a manner which is largely self-supervised or independent
- Students should know how to communicate their conclusions, knowledge and final reasoning that they hold in front of specialist and non-specialist audiences clearly and unambiguously
- Use scientific terminology in the English language to defend experimental results in the context of the chemistry profession.
Learning Outcomes
- Analyse biomaterials and apply them.
- Correctly apply new information capture and organisation technologies to solve problems in professional activity.
- Define the properties of specific materials.
- Describe the properties of liquid interphases and their applications.
- Encourage innovation in the field of materials and their applications.
- Evaluate the human, economic, legal and ethical dimension of professional practice, as well as the environmental implications of one's work.
- Identify information in the scientific literature using the appropriate channels and integrating said information to approach and contextualise a research issue.
- Innovate in the synthesis and analysis methods of specific materials.
- Interpret the properties of gels and identify their applications.
- Possess and understand knowledge that provides a basis or opportunity for originality in the development and/or application of ideas, often in a research context
- Propose advanced applications for supra-molecular materials and nanomaterials.
- Student should possess an ability to learn that enables them to continue studying in a manner which is largely self-supervised or independent
- Students should know how to communicate their conclusions, knowledge and final reasoning that they hold in front of specialist and non-specialist audiences clearly and unambiguously
- Use scientific terminology in the English language to defend experimental results in the context of the chemistry profession.
Content
- Solids, Supramolecular materials, nanomaterials, biomaterials and liquid interphases. Molecular recognition: cationic or anionic species. Neutral molecules. Self-assembly. Molecular devices and molecular machines. Liquid interphases: Langmuir-Blodgett films, micelles, vesicles. Jordi Hernando (8 h).
- Metal-Organic Frameworks: from molecules and metal ions to crystals and superstructures. Inhar Imaz (4 h).
- Metal nanoparticles, quantum dots, nanotubes, graphenes, fullerenes, liquid crystals. Mª José Esplandiu (7 h).
- Materials for Sustainable Energy: sustainable energy, solar fuels, water splitting, hydrogen, CO2reduction. Xavier Sala (4h).
- Gels and biomaterials, and use of synchrotron radiation in their study. Roberto Boada (6 h)
- Materials and microfabrication technologies for miniaturized systems. Mar Puyol (6 h)
- Nanoparticles and applications in catalysis. Roser Pleixats, (3 h)
Methodology
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.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Assessment
- 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.
VERY IMPORTANT: Partial or total plagiarising will immediately result in a FAIL (0) for the plagiarised exercise (first-year students) or the WHOLE subject (second-, third- and fourth-year students). PLAGIARISING consists of copying text from unacknowledged sources -whether this is part of a sentence or a whole text - with the intention of passing it off as the student's own production. It includes cutting and pasting from internet sources, presented unmodified in the student's own text. Plagiarising is a SERIOUS OFFENCE. Students must respect authors' intellectual property, always identifying the sources they may use; they must also be responsible for the originality and authenticity of their own texts.
In the event of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for this activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given a zero as the final grade for this subject.
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Bibliography
Every lecturer will provide the students with a list of appropriate references (scientific papers, books, links, etc...) for each part of the syllabus.
Software
No specific software is employed in this module.