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UNIWERSITY OF WARSAW

1 Pasteura Str., 02-093 Warsaw, Poland, phone: +48 (0)22 822 02 11

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Subject

New Materials: Synthesis,
Properties, Applications


No / course unit code


Semester

6

Type of course

Lecture


Teaching hours
 per semester    per week

30            2

ECTS credits

2


Lecturer:

Prof. dr hab. Krystyna Jackowska,
Room: 401    Phone extn.: 309    email: kryjacko@chem.uw.edu.pl
Dr hab. Andrzej Huczko,
Room: 232    Phone extn.: 303    email: ahuczko@chem.uw.edu.pl

Teaching Division:

Physical Chemistry

Educational and
professional goals:

Student should possess the knowledge concerning the methods of synthesis, properties, applications of conducting polymers and carbon nanostructures.

Course description:

Conducting polymers: Types of conducting polymers, mechanisms of conductivity, doping methods. Methods of synthesis and mechanisms of polymerization. Application of electrochemical and spectroscopic methods in investigations of polymerization and properties of conducting polymers. Determination of structure and morphology by using microscopic methods. Applications of conducting polymers. Conducting polymer nanostructures: synthesis, properties and applications. Hybrid systems (metallic, semiconductor nanoparticles-biomaterials) synthesis, properties.

Carbon nanostructures (fullerenes and carbon nanotubes); discovery and production techniques: high-temperature (laser, RF and DC plasma, electric arc), combustion, catalytic, functionalization, etc. Characteristics of fullerenes and nanotubes: structure and morphology, functionalization approaches, physical and chemical properties. Prototype and perspective applications of carbon nanostructures: pharmacology and medicine, materials engineering, photooptics, catalysis, tribology, nanoelectronics, microscopy, etc. Synthesis, characteristics, and perspective applications of other carbon nanostructures (onions, encapsulates, peapods, horns, etc.).

Required background:


General Chemistry, Physical Chemistry I, Physical Chemistry II.

Form of assessment:


Test

Remarks:

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