Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Science |
Mestrado en Investigación Química e Química Industrial (plan 2016) |
Subjects |
Profundización en Química Física |
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Identifying Data | 2016/17 | |||||||||||||
Subject | Profundización en Química Física | Code | 610509002 | |||||||||||
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Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
Official Master's Degree | Yearly |
First | Obligatoria | 3 | ||||||||||
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Topic | Sub-topic |
ITEM 1. Electrical properties of molecules. | Electric dipole moments. Polarizabilities. Relative permittivities. |
ITEM 2. Intermolecular forces. | Dipole-dipole attractions . Dispersion forces. Hydrogen bonds. Hydrophobic interaction. Total interaction: intermolecular potentials. |
ITEM 3. Intermolecular interactions in liquids: radial distribution function. | Radial distribution function and its calculation. |
ITEM 4. General concepts on interfaces. | Interfaces: a frontier between systems. Unbalanced energy. Excess Gibbs free energy. Special features of the interfaces liquid-fluid phase and solid-fluid phase. Molecular mobility in solids. Environmental variables affecting the excess surface free energy. |
ITEM 5. Thermodynamics of interactions at the interface. | Differences in the study of liquid-fluid phase and solid-fluid phase interfaces. Classification based on the intermolecular forces and the energy involved in the interaction: physisorption and chemisorption. Monolayers and multilayers of adsorbate. Isotherms, types I to V. Determination of surface areas on solids, BET method. Hysteresis phenomena on adsorption-desorption cycles. |
ITEM 6. Structural study of interfaces. Theoretical developments. | Basic concepts. The electrical double layer at the interface. Charge transfer. Application to the study of colloidal aggregates and electrical charge transfers. |
ITEM 7. Experimental techniques of study and characterization of interfaces. | Photoelectron spectroscopy. Microscopies. |
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