ECTS credits ECTS credits: 4.5
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 74.2 Hours of tutorials: 2.25 Expository Class: 18 Interactive Classroom: 18 Total: 112.45
Use languages Spanish, Galician, English
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry
Areas: Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry
Center Faculty of Chemistry
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
-Basic knowledge about the structure, methods of preparation, properties and applications of materials of technological interest.
-The properties of the different types of materials studied: metallic, ceramic, composites, nanomaterials, polymers and molecular gels.
PART 1: INORGANIC MATERIALS
Unit 1. METALLIC MATERIALS
General characteristics. Crystalline structures. Polymorphism. X-ray diffraction. Imperfections. Diffusion. Alloys. Steels. Phase diagrams. Applications.
Unit 2. CERAMIC MATERIALS
General characteristics. Crystalline ceramics. Polymorphism. Imperfections. Ceramic materials based on clay. Special ceramic materials. Glasses. Phase diagrams. Applications.
Unit 3. COMPOSITE MATERIALS
General characteristics. Particle-reinforced composite materials: concrete. Fiber reinforced composite materials. Properties and applications.
Unit 4. METAL-BASED NANOMATERIALS
Quantum dots. Metal oxide nanomaterials. Applications.
PART 2: ORGANIC MATERIALS
Unit 5. POLYMERS. SYNTHESIS AND PROPERTIES
Polymers: introduction and definitions. Classification of polymers. Nomenclature. Molecular weight. Stereochemistry. Chemical structure and morphology. Polymer synthesis methods: addition and condensation polymers. Copolymers. Properties of polymers. Structure-activity relationships. conductive polymers. Dendrimers.
Unit 6. MODIFICATION OF POLYMERS. BIOCONJUGATION AND BIOORTHOGONAL CHEMISTRY
Bioconjugation reactions. Amino acid modification. Click and bioorthogonal chemistry. Cu-catalyzed azide/alkyne coupling reaction, reactions with strained alkynes, reactions with tetrazines, Staudinger coupling, thiol-ene reaction, metathesis and methods based on organometallic catalysis. Photochemistry with visible light.
Unit 7. MOLECULAR RECEPTORS AND SUPRAMOLECULAR MATERIALS
Supramolecular Interactions. Supramolecular compounds (Host/guest). Cyclodextrins, cucurbiturils. Self-assembly. Molecular Gels.
Unit 8. CARBON NANOMATERIALS
Materials derived from Carbon: Fullerenes. Carbon nanotubes. Graphene
BASIC
Several general books are recommended for the course, given its multidisciplinary nature:
- "Introduction to materials science and engineering", W. D. Callister. Reverté, 1995.
- "Polymers", D. Walton, O. Lorimer. Oxford Chemistry Primer No. 85. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2000.
- "Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction", W. D. Callister, Jr. Wiley, 2007.
COMPLEMENTARY
- "Introduction to polymer chemistry", R. B. Seymour, C. E. Carraher, Jr. Ed Reverté, 1995.
- "Fundamentals of Materials Science and Engineering", WF Smith. Mc Graw-Hill, 1996.
- "Concise Inorganic Chemistry”, J. D. Lee, 5º Ed., Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, 1996.
- "Semiconductor Nanocrystal Quantum Dots", AL Rogach, Ed, SpringerWien, N. Y., 2008.
- "Modern Gold Supramolecular Chemistry", A. Laguna, Ed, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2008
- "Gold Chemistry", F. Mohr, Ed, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2009.
GENERAL (CG2, CG3, CG4, CG5, CB1)
Understanding of the fundamentals of using materials based on the relationship between structure and properties.
SPECIFIC (CE11, CE12, CE14, CE16)
To learn to choose and design materials with specific properties.
TRANSVERSAL (CT10, CT8, CT7)
Team working abilities: discussion and problem-solving.
- Lectures (EC): explanation of class materials by the teacher in the classroom, with the visual support (PowerPoint). Attendance to these classes is not compulsory, but students are encouraged to regularly attend them.
- Interactive seminar classes (CIS): The student participates actively by solving exercises in the classroom, preparing monographs on specific topics, individually or in groups, and exposing them in public. Attendance at these classes is compulsory.
- Interactive classes tutoring (CIT): will be used to answer questions, solve problems, supervision of exercises, etc. Attendance at these classes is compulsory.
THIS SUBJECT HAS A WEB-PAGE IN “USC VIRTUAL” containing didactic material for following the lectures and exercises bulletins for interactive classes.
The expository and interactive teaching will be face-to-face.
The final exams will be face-to-face.
Evaluation of the student’s performance will be carried out by continuous assessment during the course and the completion of a final exam.
Attendance of seminars and tutorials is mandatory to choose continuous evaluation. You will need to attend a minimum of 80 % of these classes so that continuous assessment is evaluated.
The course will be assessed on the basis of continuous assessment and the final exam of matter, as follows:
1. Continuous assessment (30% of score): will evaluate the student's active participation in seminar classes and tutorials, solving exercises and questions raised previously as well as coaching and oral presentations.
2. Examination of the course (70% of score). It will cover all the contents of the subject.
In order to pass the subject, taking into account continuous assessment, it will be necessary to achieve a minimum score of 4 (four points out of ten) in the final exam.
If the student is not entitled to continuous assessment, your note will be the final exam (100 %). To pass the subject will need to have a score over 4.0 out of 10 for each part of the subject (Parte 1: Inorganic Materials; Part 2: Organic materials).
The marks obtained by the student will not be less than the final exam (average of the two parts) or that obtained by the two continuous assessments.
The students taking the subject for the second, third, and so on, time will have the same regime of attendance than those who take the subject for the first time.
Throughout the course the following competencies are evaluated:
CB1: seminar classes and final exam
CG2: tutorial classes and final exam
CG3: seminar classes and final exam
CG4: seminar classes and final exam
CG5: final exam
CT7: seminar classes and final exam
CT8: tutoring classes
CT10: seminar classes, tutorial classes and final exam
CE11: seminar classes and final exam
CE12: final exam
CE14: final exam
CE16: final exam
In cases of fraudulent completion of exercises or tests, the provisions of the “Regulations for evaluating the academic performance of students and reviewing grades” will apply.
Classload in the classroom: 24 + 10 + 2 hours.
Lectures: 24
Interactive seminar classes: 10
Interactive tutorial classes: 2
TOTAL HOURS IN THE IN THE CLASSROOM: 36 hours
Personal work:
Individual or group study: 45 hours
Solving exercises and other work: 20 hours
Preparation of oral presentations, preparation of proposed written exercises, or similar activities in the library: 11.5 hours
TOTAL HOURS OF PERSONAL WORK: 76.5 hours
TOTAL HOURS: 36 + 76.5 = 112.5 hours
It is necessary to have a good background in Inorganic and Organic Chemistry.
It is recommended to review the contents of the subject Physical Chemistry of Materials.
Attendance to lectures is highly recommended.
Regular attendance at seminar sessions and tutorials is critical to strengthening the knowledge acquired in lectures.
Maria Esther Garcia Fernandez
Coordinador/a- Department
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Area
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Phone
- 881814241
- mesther.garcia [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Maria Tomas Gamasa
- Department
- Organic Chemistry
- Area
- Organic Chemistry
- Phone
- 881815760
- maria.tomas [at] usc.es
- Category
- Researcher: Ramón y Cajal
Beatriz Pelaz Garcia
- Department
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Area
- Inorganic Chemistry
- beatriz.pelaz [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Manuel Nappi
- Department
- Organic Chemistry
- Area
- Organic Chemistry
- manuel.nappi [at] usc.es
- Category
- Researcher: Ramón y Cajal
| Wednesday | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 | English | Classroom 3.44 |
| 11:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | Physical Chemistry Classroom (ground floor) |
| Thursday | |||
| 10:00-11:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | Spanish | Biology Classroom (3rd floor) |
| 11:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLIS_02 | Spanish | Biology Classroom (3rd floor) |
| Friday | |||
| 09:00-10:00 | Grupo /CLIS_03 | Spanish | Analytical Chemistry Classroom (2nd floor) |
| 09:00-10:00 | Grupo /CLIS_04 | English | Classroom 2.12 |
| 05.30.2025 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Biology Classroom (3rd floor) |
| 05.30.2025 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Mathematics Classroom (3rd floor) |
| 07.01.2025 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Mathematics Classroom (3rd floor) |
| 07.01.2025 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | General Chemistry Classroom (2nd floor) |