Course catalogue
Create your own master’s programme by choosing between the different specializations of our partner universities.
Academic Programme
Implemented from September 2025
Kinetics and Electrochemistry (5 ECTS)
All courses during this semester
- Experimental methods on innovative research infrastructures - 5 ECTS
- Digital Micro-certification "The challenges of sustainable chemistry" - 10h
- Transferable skills : French language & interculturality (3 ECTS)
- Quantum mechanics towars quantum computing (5 ECTS)
- Winter school in Data Science (2 ECTS)
- Organic / Inorganic chemistry towards sustainability (5 ECTS)
- Kinetics and Electrochemistry (5 ECTS)
- Introduction to biophysics and microscopies for life science (5 ECTS)
All courses during this semester
- Luminescence spectroscopy of Lanthanides (3 ECTS)
- Summer School in Entrepreneurship (5 ECTS)
- Transferable skills: Polish course (3 ECTS)
- The molecules of life: from structure to chemical function (5 ECTS)
- Thermodynamics and soft matter (3 ECTS)
- Introduction to solid state (5 ECTS)
- Tech-infused perspectives on photochemical reaction dynamics (6 ECTS)
- Transferable skills: Portuguese course (3 ECTS)
- Summer School in Entrepreneurship (5 ECTS)
- Solid State Physics (5 ECTS)
- Molecular Energetics (3 ECTS)
- Laboratory of Materials and Surface Analysis (5 ECTS)
- Interfacial Electrochemistry (3 ECTS)
- Interfaces, Colloids and Self-Assembly (6 ECTS)
All courses during this semester
- 1-year research project - master thesis (equivalent 45 ECTS)
- Progress assessment of the research project (equivalent 6 ECTS)
- Weekly seminars (equivalent 4 ECTS)
- Special Topics in Chemistry (equivalent 5 ECTS)
- French language courses (3 ECTS)
- Nanosciences (6 ECTS)
- Medical applications of nanomaterials and radiations (6 ECTS)
- Top management, corporate law, and project writing for technology transfer and decision making (4 ECTS)
- Tracking ultrafast radiation-induced reactivity (3 ECTS)
- Applications for renewable energy and storage: solar fuels, batteries and hydrogen (6 ECTS) (6 ECTS)
- Scientific Writing and career objectives (2 ECTS)
- Surface Science and Nanostructuring at Surfaces (6 ECTS)
- Polymers for electronics and energy harvesting (5 ECTS)
- Electrochemical systems for fuel and electrolysis cells and batteries (6 ECTS)
- Project-based laboratory on device building (3 ECTS)
- Italian Courses (3 ECTS)
- Chemistry and Technology of Catalysis (5 ECTS)
Reaction kinetics
- Relation between rates and mechanisms of chemical reactions
- Collision theory of reaction rates
- Activated complex theory
- Reactions in solution
- Introduction to photochemistry
- Redox reactions and Electrochemistry
- Fundamentals of electron transfer
- Cyclic and linear sweep voltammetry
- Thermodynamics and kinetics of electron transfer
- Electron transfer in biological systems
Laboratory training
- Laser Induced Fluorescence of I2 gas
- Study of molecules by Flash photolysis method
- Influence of the ionic strength on the solubility of a salt
- Cyclic voltammetry of a reversible system
- Mediated redox enzyme electrochemistry
Aims
Reaction kinetics in gas and solution: experimental and theoretical approaches. Thermodynamics and kinetics of electron transfers : applications to biological systems
Pre-requiste
Fundamentals of Kinetics (reaction order, rate constant, Arrhenius law,…)
Solution Chemistry (acid-base, redox, precipitation, complexation,…)
Basics of Chemical Thermodynamics (enthalpy, entropy, Gibbs free energy, equilibrium constant,…)
Recommended Books
Physical Chemistry, P.W. Atkins, J. De Paula, Ed. Oxford University press
Chemical kinetics and dynamics, J. I. Steinfeld, J. S. Franscisco, W. L. Hase, Ed. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Teaching Staff
Isabelle Lampre (Course coordinator)
Pedro De Oliveira
Hours
Lecture & lectures: 22h
Practical courses: 16 h
Grading System
Kinetics exam 40% + Electrochemistry exam 30%+ Practicals 30%