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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Physical Chemistry of Surface, Colloidal systems and chemical catalysis

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 9360-0186/01
Abbreviation FCHPK
Course title Physical Chemistry of Surface, Colloidal systems and chemical catalysis
Credits 3
Coordinating department CNT - Nanotechnology Centre
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Jana Seidlerová, CSc.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
1. Thermodynamics of solids and liquids surfaces
2. Chemical processes on the surface, kinetics of chemical reactions on the surface
3 Adsorption and desorption in solid-gas system, description of adsorption, experimental methods
4. Adsorption and desorption in solid-liquid system, description of adsorption, experimental methods
5. Preparation and stability of colloidal systems, structure of colloidal micelles
6. Structurally mechanical properties of colloidal systems
7. The optical and electrical properties of colloidal system
8. Experimental methods of colloidal system properties study
9 Properties of colloidal systems of high molecular weight solutions, optical properties, aggregate stability, high molecular weight gels
10. Formal kinetics of complex reactions (simultaneous, reversible, lateral, sequential and chain reactions)
11. Formal kinetics of chain reaction and polycondenzation, experimental methods of chemical kinetics, measurement of reaction rate, evaluation of measurements
12. Theory of homogeneous catalysis, autocatalysis, examples
13. Heterogeneous catalysis, mechanism, activity of catalysts
14. Photocatalysis, principle and description of mechanism, examples

EXERCISE FILL:
1. Introduction, content of laboratory exercises and requirements for obtaining credit
2. Coagulation of the hydrophobic AgI solution. Effect of gelatin and egg white on coagulation of AgI colloid
3. Determination of isoelectric point of gelatin and coagulation of egg white
4. Measurement of the zeta-potential of colloid Ag
5. Determination of the macromolecular weight of high molecular substance
6. Determination of the specific surface area using adsorption equilibrium
7. Determination of photocatalytic reaction rate constant

Literature

SANTEN, R. A.: ed. Catalysis: an integrated approach. 2nd, rev. and enl. ed. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1999. ISBN 0-444-82963-6.
TU, K. N. a A. M. GUSAK.: Kinetics in nanoscale materials. Hoboken: Wiley, PASCHLEY, R. M.: Applied Colloid and Surface Chemistry, Wiley 2004. ISBN: 0470868821.2014. ISBN 978-0-470-88140-8.
Somorjai, G. A., Yimin Li, Y., Introduction to Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, Wiley, 2nd Edition, Wiley, 2010. ISBN-13: 978-0470508237 , ISBN-10: 047050823X .

Advised literature

ATKINS, P., W., Paula, J.: Atkin´s Physical Chemistry. Oxford UP 2003, ISBN 0198792859 .
https://www.khanacademy.org/science/chemistry/chem-kinetics.
Nanotechnology/Physical Chemistry of Surfaces, http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Nanotechnology/Physical_Chemistry_of_Surfaces.