TEACHING

• Course lecture "Physical Chemistry" for 2^nd  year students

• Laboratory "Physical Chemistry I" for 2^nd year students 

• Laboratory "Physical Chemistry II" for 3^rd year students 

• Laboratory "Chemistry of New Materials" for 4^th year students

• Specialization Laboratory 4^th year students

Alumni:

Artur Szkurłat, PhD 2005

Subject: "Electrochemical and spectroscopic studies of poly(3-alkylthiophenes) and polyalkoxythiophenes" 

Monika Refczyńska PhD 2009

Subject: "Formation and characterization of conducting polymers modified with polymer and carbon nano- and microstructures". 

Agata Tarajko-Ważny, PhD 2011

Subject: "Synthesis, characterization and applications of poly(1,8-diamino-carbazole)". 

Ph.D students:

Oleksandr Kuzmych, M.Sc

Kamila Zarębska, M.Sc

Zuzanna Glębicka, M.Sc

Agata Bartnicka, M.Sc

M.Sc. students:

13 M.Sc. students within the period 1997-20011

Lecture „Physical Chemistry” – description (45 h, 4.5 ECTS)

 - The first, the second and the third laws of thermodynamics, state functions,  phenomenological and molecular interpretation of energy and entropy, Gibbs energy, conditions of equilibrium

- Enthalpy changes, heat capacities and basis of thermochemistry

- Partial molar quantities and chemical potential of pure substance and substance in the mixture,

- Ideal and real solutions

- Thermodynamics of phase equilibria. Phase diagrams for one- and many-component systems; zeotrops, azeotrops, eutectics, partially miscible solutions, 

- Thermodynamics of mixtures

- Colligative properties of the solutions

- Chemical equilibrium, the equilibrium constant and its temperature dependence, relation to Gibbs standard function, free enthalpy of reaction

- Kinetic theory of gases, van der Waals equation 

- Introduction to thermodynamics of irreversible processes

- Transport phenomena in gases and solutions

- Electrochemistry of ionic solutions, basics of Debye-Hückel theory, activity and activity coefficient

- Conductivity of strong and weak electrolytes,

- Potential differences at the interfaces, different types of electrodes and electrode reactions; electrochemical potential, Galvani potential, Nernst equation,

- Galvanic cells (chemical and concentration cells), electromotive force, reversibility and irreversibility of the cells,  application of EMF measurements,

- Thermodynamics of surface phenomena, surface tension, adsorption, isotherms of adsorption, properties of colloidal solutions

- Kinetics of simple and complex reactions, enzymatic reactions, theory of transition state, basics of electrochemical kinetics, corrosion 

- Basis of homo- and heterogeneous catalysis

- Optical, electrical and magnetic properties of the molecules.