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Master SERP+ Programme - cohort 2020-2025
Molecular Energetics (3 ECTS)
All courses during this semester
All courses during this semester
- Transferable skills: Polish course, Summer School in Entrepreneurship (6 ECTS)
- The molecules of life: from structure to chemical function (3 ECTS)
- Selected in silico and in vitro methods in thermodynamics and soft matter (6 ECTS)
- Organic chemistry (3 ECTS)
- Introduction to solid state (6 ECTS)
- Dynamics of photochemical reactions in chemistry, biology and medicine (6 ECTS)
- Transferable skills: Portuguese course, Summer School in Entrepreneurship (6 ECTS)
- Solid State Physics (6 ECTS)
- Molecular Energetics (3 ECTS)
- Laboratory of Materials and Surface Analysis (6 ECTS)
- Interfacial Electrochemistry (3 ECTS)
- Interfaces, Colloids and Self-Assembly (6 ECTS)
- Transferable skills: Summer School in Entrepreneurship (3 ECTS)
- Organic Photochemistry (3 ECTS)
- Italian Courses (3 ECTS)
- Introduction to Solid State (6 ECTS)
- Inorganic Functional Materials (3 ECTS)
- Electrochemical systems for energy conversion and storage (6 ECTS)
- Chemistry and Technology of Catalysis and Laboratory (6 ECTS)
All courses during this semester
- Nanosciences (6 ECTS)
- Nanoparticles and Advanced radiation therapies (6 ECTS)
- Fundamentals in data science and machine learning (3 ECTS)
- Femtochemistry (3 ECTS)
- Chemistry for renewable energy: from advanced research to industrial applications (6 ECTS)
- Transferable skills: Scientific writing, Polish courses (6 ECTS)
- Lanthanide luminescence: Application in chemistry and biology (6 ECTS)
- Introduction to Data Sciences (3 ECTS)
- Environmental photochemistry (3 ECTS)
- Computational and quantum photochemistry (6 ECTS)
- Applied photochemistry and luminescence spectroscopy (6 ECTS)
- Scientific Writing and Career Objectives (3 ECTS)
- Portuguese course (3 ECTS)
- Nanotechnologies, Micro and Nano-fabrication (6 ECTS)
- Materials Properties and Applications (6 ECTS)
- Electrochemical Technology (6 ECTS)
- Data Science Basics (3 ECTS)
- Bionanotechnology (3 ECTS)
- Transferable skills: Scientific Writing Industrial Seminars (3 ECTS)
- Surface Science and Nanostructuring at Surfaces (6 ECTS)
- Polymers for electronics and energy harvesting (6 ECTS)
- Laboratory on device building (3 ECTS)
- Italian Courses (3 ECTS)
- Data Science and Applications to Chemistry (3 ECTS)
- Composite materials for biomedical applications (6 ECTS)
Content
THERMODYNAMICS
The Laws. Reaction and phase transition enthalpies. Standard and reference states. Enthalpy versus temperature. Standard enthalpies of formation. Gibbs energy and equilibrium constant. Calorimetric and non-calorimetric methods for enthalpy determination. Units and uncertainties.
CALORIMETRY
Introduction: temperature and heat. Calorimetry techniques: adiabatic, isoperibol (combustion and solution-reaction), twin cells-flow, compensation and DSC.
THERMAL BEHAVIOR OF MATERIALS
Heat capacities. Theoretical and experimental aspects of the determination of enthalpies of phase transition in organic molecules and of other transitions in macromolecules and ionic liquids. Vapor pressures. Methods of estimation.
ENERGY AND MOLECULAR STRUCTURE, CORRELATIONS AND ESTIMATES
Prediction of formation enthalpies, based on transferability and additivity of binding energies. Computational estimation of enthalpies of formation of organic molecules, using Quantum Mechanics and appropriate isodesmic reactions. Energy / Structural / Reactivity Correlations. Interest of energy values in Science and Technology.
Classes will include theoretical and practical components, stimulating the active participation of students in solving and discussing application problems and some of the classes will take place in laboratory environment, to allow the contact of the students with the specific experimental techniques of this field of work. Whenever possible, experts will be invited to give lectures on the applications of the scientific topics covered.
Aims
The main aims of this course are: a comprehensive discussion of the thermodynamic stability of molecules, bonds and of intermolecular interactions, together with a description of some experimental and computational methodologies that have been used to obtain that information, as well as the possible practical applications in several areas of science.
Recommended Books
- Simões, J. A. M., & Piedade, M. E. M. (2008). Molecular Energetics: Condensed-Phase Thermochemical Techniques. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Relevant scientific papers or book chapters will be provided to the students.
Teaching Staff
Maria das Dores Melo Cruz Ribeiro da Silva (responsible)
Maria Agostinha Ribeiro de Matos
Jorge Marques Gonçalves
Hours
21 h (lectures + practicals)
Grading System
Students should present orally a scientific paper, recently published in the scientific area of the course, which will contribute with 30% of their final grade, with the final exam weighing 70%.
