KE830: Characterization of Materials

Comment

Not offered spring 2023

Entry requirements

Bachelor’s degree in chemistry; or minor in chemistry.

Academic preconditions

Students taking the course are expected to:

Have knowledge of KE525: Inorganic chemistry A (5 ECTS) + KE801: Inorganic chemistry B (5 ECTS) + KE504 Analytical Spectroscopy or KE549:Analytical Spectroscopy (minor in chemistry) + KE826: Spectroscopy
Be able to use Windows Office and basic mathematics.

Course introduction

The aim of the course is to enable the student to apply several modern experimental techniques for characterization of inorganic and organic materials, and provide insight into how structural information is utilized in materials science, which is important in regard to the understanding, research and development of novel materials.

The course builds on the knowledge acquired in the courses KE525 (Inorganic Chemistry A) and KE801 (Inorganic Chemistry B), and gives an academic basis for carrying out a master-, research- or PhD project especially within inorganic or materials chemistry.

In relation to the competence profile of the degree it is the explicit focus of the course to:

Give the competence to collect and analyse data from a series of modern characterization techniques
Give skills to utilize structural information to characterize materials properties
Give knowledge and understanding of theoretical and practical aspects of structural characterization and description of materials

Expected learning outcome

The learning objective of the course is that the student demonstrates the ability to:

describe the processes involved in data collection for the applied characterization techniques
explain the theoretical background for the applied characterization techniques
process, interpret and analyze experimental data with the aim of extracting structural information
evaluate and compare the strengths and weaknesses of experimental characterization techniques
combine information from different experimental characterization techniques to achieve detailed information about the structure of materials

Content

The following main topics are contained in the course:

Crystalline and amorphous materials (How may local and global structure of a material be probed?)
Powder X-ray diffraction (Rietveld refinement – structure refinement and structure determination)
Solid state NMR spectroscopy (structure determination, defects, dynamics)
Particle size analysis (Rietveld analysis and BET)
Elemental analysis (ICP)
Electron microscopy (SEM)

Literature

See itslearning for syllabus lists and additional literature references.

Examination regulations

Prerequisites for participating in the exam element a)

Timing

Spring

Tests

Participation in laboratory exercises

EKA

N540036112

Assessment

Second examiner: None

Grading

Pass/Fail

Identification

Full name and SDU username

Language

Normally, the same as teaching language

Examination aids

To be announced during the course

ECTS value

Additional information

The prerequisite examination is a prerequisite for participation in exam element a)

Exam element a)

Timing

Spring

Prerequisites

Type	Prerequisite name	Prerequisite course
Exam	N540036112, Participation in laboratory exercises	N540036101, KE830: Characterization of Materials

Tests

Approval of reports on laboratory work

EKA

N540036122

Assessment

Second examiner: None

Grading

Pass/Fail

Identification

Full name and SDU username

Language

Normally, the same as teaching language

Examination aids

To be announced during the course

ECTS value

Exam element b)

Timing

June

Tests

Written exam

EKA

N540036102

Assessment

Second examiner: External

Grading

7-point grading scale

Identification

Full name and SDU username

Language

Normally, the same as teaching language

Duration

4 hours

Examination aids

All common aids are allowed e.g. books, notes and computer programmes which do not use internet etc.

Internet is not allowed during the exam. However, you may visit the course site in itslearning to fill in the MCQ test and to open system "DE-Digital Exam". If you wish to use course materials from itslearning, you must download the materials to your computer no later than the day before the exam. During the exam you cannot be sure that all course materials is accessible in itslearning.

ECTS value

Indicative number of lessons

48 hours per semester

Teaching Method

At the faculty of science, teaching is organized after the three-phase model ie. intro, training and study phase.
Teaching activities result in an estimated indicative distribution of the work effort of an average student in the following way:

Intro phase (lectures): Number of hours: 30
Training phase: Number of hours: 18 hereof 18 hours laboratory exercises.

The lectures provide the theoretical background, whereas the students independently apply this knowledge in the laboratory exercises and demonstrate this in the laboratory reports.

Activities in the study phase:

Writing individual laboratory reports
Preparation for the lectures including literature and assignments

Teacher responsible

Name	E-mail	Department
Ulla Gro Nielsen	ugn@sdu.dk	Institut for Fysik, Kemi og Farmaci

Additional teachers

Name	E-mail	Department	City
Per Morgen	permorgen@sdu.dk	SDU Chemical Engineering, Institut for Kemi-, Bio- og Miljøtekno

Timetable

Odense

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Administrative Unit

Fysik, kemi og Farmaci

Team at Educational Law & Registration

NAT

Offered in

Odense

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Transition rules

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