Course catalogue
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Academic Programme
Implemented from September 2025
Thermodynamics and soft matter (3 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)
Content
Thermodynamics (It is needed for compensation of the students’ knowledge levels in physical chemistry). Real gases, van der Waals equation, virial equation of state, compression factor, Boyle temperature. Internal energy, expansion work and the reversible expansion, enthalpy, heat capacity at constant volume and at constant pressure, state function, exact differential, entropy, Clausius inequality, the Helmholtz and Gibbs energies, signposts of spontaneous changes, the criterion of equilibrium, partial molar quantities, the chemical potential, activity and the activity coefficient, the activity coefficient of an electrolyte, Debye-Hückel limiting law, extended Debye-Hückel law, electric double layer.
Statistical thermodynamics
Intermolecular interactions: potential and forces, virial function, Boltzmann distribution, averages, partition function, configuration integral, fluctuation in energy, radial distribution function, ensembles (canonical, grand canonical, isobaric-isothermal).
Computer simulation techniques
Monte Carlo in different statistical ensembles (creation of a new configuration, periodic boundary condition, minimum image convention), Molecular dynamics, Gibbs ensemble, the Widom’s technique.
Computer classes
- Compression factor
- Internal pressure
- Heat capacity at a constant volume
- Mass density and isothermal compressibility
- Phase equilibrium
- Structure of fluids – radial distribution function
- The activity coefficient of an electrolyte
- Diffusion coefficient
- Mini-project: Ion adsorption at the electrode – electrolyte interface
Aims
After the course, students will be familiar with the Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics simulation techniques in different statistical ensembles. The Soft Matter part of the course aims to provide the physical chemistry background necessary for explanation of phenomena and processes taking place in the nanoscale
- in colloids, micellar systems, polymer solutions
- at interfaces, and the achievement of skills of the computer modelling and experimental studies of processes in nanoscales and at interfaces.
Recommended Books
- M. P. Allen, and T.J. Tildsley, Computer Simulation of Liquids, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1994
- D. Frenkel, and B. Smit, Understanding Molecular Simulations, Academic Press, San Diego, 1996
- P.W. Atkins, Physical Chemistry, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1998 or later
Teaching Staff
Prof. Stanisław Lamperski
Hours
Lecture: 30 h
Practical courses: 30 h
Final Porject : 5h