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Master SERP+ Programme - cohort 2020-2025
Introduction to solid state (6 ECTS)
Semester 1
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Semester 2
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- 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)
Semester 3
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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
Auditorium lectures :
- Definitions of solid state and crystals.
- Classification of crystals – cohesion forces.
- Properties of crystals – anisotropy, phonons, band structure, conductivity.
- Point and space symmetry.
- Defects and surfaces.
- Diffraction: x-rays and neutrons at ambient and extreme conditions.
- TEM, SEM, AFM, STM.
- Inelastic scattering.
- Databases and data mining.
- Examples of applications: geophysics, electronics, sensors, energy harvesting.
Laboratory exercises:
- Crystals as the main representatives of solids.
- Symmetry as the main concept describing the crystal structure.
- From morphology to the structure.
- Space symmetry.
- X-Ray diffraction – reciprocal space.
- Database search and understanding crystallographic information.
Journal club : 5 meetings with student seminars presenting assignments from current literature with discussion.
Aims
The course will teach the students:
- how to define the solid state and to connect its 3D structure with properties.
- how the knowledge about 3D structures in databases facilitates the understanding of structure-property relations;
- how this knowledge is applied in the development of modern materials;
- how to practically investigate the symmetry, structure and properties of solids in a modern diffraction and spectroscopy labs.
Recommended Books
- Gale Rhodes, Crystallography Made Crystal Clear, 3rd edition, Academic Press, Amsterdam 2006.
- Harry R. Allcock, Introduction to materials chemistry, Wiley, New Jersey 2008.
- Gregory S. Rohrer, Structure and Bonding in Crystalline Materials, Cambridge University Press 2001.
- Max Born & Huang Kun, Dynamical Theory of Crystal Lattices, Oxford Science Publications, 1988.
Teaching Staff
Prof. Andrzej Katrusiak
Dr. Ewa Patyk-Kaźmierczak
Hours
Lectures: 30h
Tutorials: 45h
