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Degree course in
Materials science
Università degli Studi di Parma
Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability

PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS WITH LAB
cod. 1009693

Academic year 2022/23
2° year of course - Second semester
Professors
Academic discipline
Chimica fisica (CHIM/02)
Field
Formazione chimica di base
Type of training activity
Basic
97 hours
of face-to-face activities
9 credits
hub: PARMA
course unit
in ITALIAN
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Learning objectives

Understanding of the physical chemistryy of molecular systems.

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

- symmetry in QM. Point groups and irreducible representations. A primer on trnalsationa and continuum symmetries, conservation laws.

-Multielectron atoms, SCF, aufbau

-separation of electronic and nuclear degrees of freedom, the adiabatic approximation

-molecular vibrations

-SCF in molecules, molecular orbitals

-The chemical bond: H2 (valence bond and MO). Biatomic molecules (N2, O2, F2), Huckel approach to pi-conjugated molecules and its extension to tight-binding model (an introduction to teh Bloch theorem)

-an introduction to optical and magnetic spectroscopy.

Lab Activities:
-quantum eraser
-quantum confinement in ZnO nanocrystals
-IR and Raman spectra of inorganic salts
-preparation and characterization of luminescent polymeric films

Full programme

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Bibliography

P.W. Atkins and R.S. Friedman, Molecular Quantum Mechanics, Oxford University Press, 2011 - quinta edizione

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Teaching methods

Lectures, computattional laboratory, experimental laboratory

Assessment methods and criteria

Oral exam

Other information

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2030 agenda goals for sustainable development

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