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Academic Programme
Implemented from September 2025
Introduction to solid state (6 ECTS)
Semester 1
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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)
Semester 2
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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)
Semester 3
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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
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