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Master SERP+ Programme - cohort 2020-2025
Kinetics and Electrochemistry (5 ECTS)
All courses during this semester
All courses during this semester
- 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)
All courses during this semester
- Transferable skills: Scientific writing, French courses - 5ECTS
- 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)
Reaction kinetics
- Relation between rates and mechanisms of chemical reactions
- Collision theory of reaction rates
- Activated complex theory
- Reactions in solution
- Introduction to photochemistry
- Redox reactions and Electrochemistry
- Fundamentals of electron transfer
- Cyclic and linear sweep voltammetry
- Thermodynamics and kinetics of electron transfer
- Electron transfer in biological systems
Laboratory training
- Laser Induced Fluorescence of I2 gas
- Study of molecules by Flash photolysis method
- Influence of the ionic strength on the solubility of a salt
- Cyclic voltammetry of a reversible system
- Mediated redox enzyme electrochemistry
Aims
Reaction kinetics in gas and solution: experimental and theoretical approaches. Thermodynamics and kinetics of electron transfers : applications to biological systems
Pre-requiste
Fundamentals of Kinetics (reaction order, rate constant, Arrhenius law,…)
Solution Chemistry (acid-base, redox, precipitation, complexation,…)
Basics of Chemical Thermodynamics (enthalpy, entropy, Gibbs free energy, equilibrium constant,…)
Recommended Books
Physical Chemistry, P.W. Atkins, J. De Paula, Ed. Oxford University press
Chemical kinetics and dynamics, J. I. Steinfeld, J. S. Franscisco, W. L. Hase, Ed. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Teaching Staff
Isabelle Lampre (Course coordinator)
Pedro De Oliveira
Hours
Lecture & lectures: 22h
Practical courses: 16 h
Grading System
Kinetics exam 40% + Electrochemistry exam 30%+ Practicals 30%