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KE830: Characterization of Materials (5 ECTS)

STADS: 10012101

Level
Master's level course

Teaching period
The course is offered in the spring semester.

Teacher responsible
Email: dbra@sdu.dk

Additional teachers
ugn@sdu.dk

Timetable
Group Type Day Time Classroom Weeks Comment
Common I Monday 08-10 U17 7
Common I Monday 10-12 U17 11,14
Common I Monday 09-11 U146 15
Common I Monday 10-12 U7 18 i stedet for timerne i U31A kl. 12-14, også d. 2. maj, som bedes afbestilt..
Common I Monday 12-14 U31A 18
Common I Wednesday 08-10 U17 9-10
Common I Wednesday 10-12 U17 16-17
Common I Thursday 08-10 U17 5-6
Common I Friday 09-11 U43 23 KE830 spørgetime
H1 TL Tuesday 12-15 U21 18
H1 TL Wednesday 14-17 White Lab 11
H1 TL Thursday 09-12 White Lab 7
H1 TL Thursday 14-17 White Lab 9
H1 TL Thursday 12-15 U31 16
H1 TL Thursday 14-17 U31 17
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Prerequisites:
Bachelor degree in Chemistry, Nanobioscience or Chemical Engineering; or minor in Chemistry.

Academic preconditions:
KE525 (Inorganic Chemistry A) and either KE801 (Inorganic Chemistry B) or KE827 (Basic Solid State Chemistry) must have been attended.

Course introduction
The aim of the course is to make the participants familiar with several modern experimental techniques used for characterization of inorganic and organic materials, and provide insight into how structural information is utilized in material science.

Qualifications
  • Hands-on experience with data-collection and –analysis
  • Application oriented understanding of modern materials and methods for characterization of material properties
  • Insight into both theoretical and practical aspects of structural characterization and description of materials
Expected learning outcome
At the end of the course the students are expected to be able 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.
Subject overview
  • Understanding and describing 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, Pair distribution function analysis)
  • Solid state NMR spectroscopy (structure determination, defects, dynamics)
  • Particle size analysis (Rietveld analysis and BET) 
  • Elemental analysis (ICP)
  • Electron microscopy (SEM and TEM)
Literature
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Website
This course uses e-learn (blackboard).

Prerequisites for participating in the exam
Participation in laboratory exercises is a prerequisite for taking part in examination a. Pass/fail, internal evaluation by teacher.

Assessment and marking:
  1. Approval of reports on laboratory work. Pass/fail, internal evaluation by teacher. 1 ECTS
  2. Oral examination. External censorship, Danish 7-mark scale. 4 ECTS
Expected working hours
The teaching method is based on three phase model.
Intro phase: 22 hours
Skills training phase: 24 hours, hereof:
 - Laboratory exercises: 18 hours
 - Excursion: 6 hours

Educational activities

Language
This course is taught in Danish or English, depending on the lecturer. However, if international students participate, the teaching language will always be English.

Course enrollment
See deadline of enrolment.

Tuition fees for single courses
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