Nanochemistry

NAME OF THE COURSE Nanochemistry

Code

KTG323

Year of study

3.

Course teacher

Assoc Prof Magdy Lučić Lavčević

Credits (ECTS)

3.0

Associate teachers

Type of instruction (number of hours)

P S V T

30

0

0

0

Status of the course

Elective

Percentage of application of e-learning

0 %

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Course objectives

Proposing and explaining how the principles of chemistry could be applied to the bottom-up synthesis of advanced functional materials and hierarchical construction principles, by using molecular/nano-scale building blocks programmed with chemical information.

Course enrolment requirements and entry competences required for the course

None.

Learning outcomes expected at the level of the course (4 to 10 learning outcomes)

After teaching process, the student should:
- Know the characteristics of basic nanostructures and methods for analyzing their morphology;
- Be able to apply the principles of chemistry in the so-called ”bottom-up” synthesis, in which the molecules or particles of nanometer dimensions as building elements, ”programmed” to spontaneously self-organize, organize themselves in a hierarchical structures;
- Be able to explain the relationship between structure / dimensionality and specific properties as well as functionality of nanostructures, for the given examples;
- Be able to assess the applicability of nanostructures in scientific research and new technologies.

Course content broken down in detail by weekly class schedule (syllabus)

Starting ideas of nanochemistry. Creating nanostructures.(3). Specifics of nanostructures: surface, size, shape, and self-organization (3). Examples of nanostructures of carbon, silicon, metals and metal oxides and organic nanostructures (6). Synthesis of organized nanostructures (4). Hierarchical systems (2). Experimental characterization techniques (4). Selected examples of properties of nanostructures - fundamental and practical significance of the ”size and shape effect”(6). Bio-nano interface: nanochemistry as a link between the natural and life sciences (2).

Format of instruction:

Student responsibilities

 

Screening student work (name the proportion of ECTS credits for eachactivity so that the total number of ECTS credits is equal to the ECTS value of the course):

Class attendance

0.5

Research

0.0

Practical training

0.0

Experimental work

0.0

Report

0.0

 

 

Essay

0.0

Seminar essay

0.5

 

 

Tests

1.0

Oral exam

1.0

 

 

Written exam

0.0

Project

0.0

 

 

Grading and evaluating student work in class and at the final exam

During the semester, the final exam can be substituted by midterm tests and a seminar essay.
In the final exam perods the final exam shall be taken after the presentation of the seminar essay.
Grades: 55-64% - sufficient; 65-79% - good, 80-89% - very good; 90-100% - excellent.

Required literature (available in the library and via other media)

Title

Number of copies in the library

Availability via other media

M. Lučić Lavčević, Nanostrukture, interna skripta u pripremi

0

Personal web-site

Cademartiri, G. A.Ozin, Concepts of Nanochemistry, Wiley VCH, 2009.

1

Optional literature (at the time of submission of study programme proposal)

Selected web-sites

Quality assurance methods that ensure the acquisition of exit competences

Quality of the teaching and learning, monitored at the level of the
(1) teachers, accepting suggestions of students and colleagues, and
(2) faculty, conducting surveys of students on teaching quality.

Other (as the proposer wishes to add)