Entry requirements

120 credits including 90 credits Chemistry. The courses Thermodynamic Principles 5 credits and Inorganic Chemistry, 5 credits, or equivalent. Proficiency in English equivalent to the Swedish upper secondary course English 6.

Learning outcomes

On completion of the course, the student should be able to:

• describe the most common and important materials synthesis methods.
• describe the principles for the atomic-level build-up of solid materials, involving amorphous as well as crystalline materials.
• describe the specific structure of surfaces and their reactivities in relation to bulk.
• define ideal and non-ideal solid solution, analyse the correlation between excessive free energy and phase diagram, predict microstructures from phase diagram.
• describe different types of point defects.
• discuss and predict the principal appearance of diffractograms, based on both fluorescence and diffraction phenomena, compare and suggest complementary characterisation techniques.
• analyse and construct binary phase diagram with respect to components and phases.
• explain the importance of quantum confinements (i.e. size dependency) for various properties of different types of materials.
• discuss the structure and bonding of transition metal complexes

Content

Basic theoretical and experimental areas of Solid State Chemistry. Several basic and general principles about the atomic level growth of solid material (crystalline and amorphous), as well as surfaces. Basic structural chemistry, solid solution, microstructures and phase transformation. Structure and bonding of molecular coordination compounds. Importatn synthesis methods in solid state and of transition metal complexes, ligand substitutions Examples and applications will be taken from, e.g., the energy area.

Instruction

Lectures, demonstrations and laboratory exercises

Assessment

Written examination at the end of the course (4 credits). Passed laboratory course and literature project is also required and is assigned 1 credit.

If there are special reasons for doing so, an examiner may make an exception from the method of assessment indicated and allow a student to be assessed by another method. An example of special reasons might be a certificate regarding special pedagogical support from the disability coordinator of the university.