Enrollment year
2018/2019
Academic discipline
CHIM/02 (PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMESTRY
Curriculum
Chimica dei Materiali
Period
2nd semester (01/03/2019 - 20/06/2019)
Lesson hours
96 lesson hours
Prerequisites
Physical chemistry notions
Learning outcomes
Aim of the course is to provide students with the appropriate practical and conceptual tools for developing advanced techiniques for the synthesis and structural characterization of solids.
At the end of the course, the student should be able to plan the preparation of a material of interest and to characterize it from the point of view of long-and short-range order.
Course contents
The course is divided into three parts:
The first part deals with thethermodynamic and kinetic aspects involved in phase transitions, with particular emphasis to solid state reactivity. Laboratory experiments on the synthesis of materials of technological interest complete this part of the course.
In the second part the structural refinement methods on powder X-ray diffraction data will be treated. In particular, the Rietveld method useful to determine the main structural and microstructural parameters as well as to quantify the crystalline and amorphous components will be described. The corresponding laborarory will be devoted to practical exercises dealing with structural issues of material science
In the third part, the principles of NMR spectroscopy in the solid state will be introduced. In particular, the energy terms determining the shape and the size of the spectrum, and the main methods to obtain high-resolution information in the solid state will be discussed. The laboratory will be completed by practical exercises on problems of materials science, where students will use state-of-the-art instrumentation.
Teaching methods
For all the three modules, the topics treated during the lessons, will be explained also during the laboratory activities
Reccomended or required readings
Educational material given by the teachers
Assessment methods
Oral exam: the student must demonstrate that he / she has understood all the topics covered during the lessons, with particular emphasis on laboratory exercises
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