KJM-MENA5555 – Polymers and Macromolecules
Course description
Schedule, syllabus and examination date
Course content
The course gives students a fundamental introduction to concepts used to understand composition and properties of polymers and macromolecular systems.
Learning outcome
After completing this course:
- you can discuss and define fundamental concepts in polymer synthesis; especially radical polymerization, and you have laborative experience doing polymer synthesis.
- you can describe physical properties for different polymers and relate microscopic structure to properties and dynamic on a macroscopic level.
- you understand and are able to describe different experimental techniques that are used to characterize macromolecules. You also have practical experience with some methods of characterization of polymers in solution.
- you know the most important theoretical models for polymer solutions and melts
- you understand and are able to explain basic concepts of structure formation in solution and spontaneous creation of amphiphilic polymers.
- you are familiar with the use of polymers in material technology, nanotechnology, and medicine.
Admission to the course
Students admitted at UiO must?apply for courses?in Studentweb. Students enrolled in other Master's Degree Programmes can, on application, be admitted to the course if this is cleared by their own study programme.
Nordic citizens and applicants residing in the Nordic countries may?apply to take this course as a single course student.
If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about?admission requirements and procedures for international applicants.
Formal prerequisite knowledge
Before you can attend the mandatory laboratory courses, you have to have passed the following courses:
Recommended previous knowledge
KJM-MENA3300 – Physical Chemistry III - Macromolecules, Condensed Phases and Dynamics (continued) eller KJM3310 – Physical Chemistry III - Statistical Thermodynamics for Chemistry
Overlapping courses
- 10 credits overlap with KJM-MENA9555 – Polymers and Macromolecules.
- 4 credits overlap with KJM5510 – Polymer materials (discontinued).
- 4 credits overlap with KJM5530 – Amphiphilic Polymers (discontinued).
- 4 credits overlap with KJM5550 – General Polymer Chemistry (discontinued).
- 4 credits overlap with KJM9550 – General Polymer Chemistry (discontinued).
- 4 credits overlap with KJM4550 – General Polymer Chemistry (discontinued).
Teaching
The course duration is one semester. The teaching consists of:
- Lectures (45 hours)
- Group seminars (16 hours)
- A mandatory laboratory course (28 hours)
The mandatory laboratory course?must be approved before you can take?the final exam.
A completed and approved laboratory course is valid for six semesters after the semester it was approved.?After this period, you must complete the laboratory course again before you can take the final exam.
You will need to provide documentation that you have passed HMS0503, HMS0505 and HMS0507 when you attend the first mandatory lab.
It is mandatory to attend the first lecture (including students on the waiting list). If you are unable to attend the first lecture, you must notify the Department of Chemistry before the start of the lecture, otherwise, your course registration will be canceled.
Attendance at the laboratory course is mandatory. If you are prevented from meeting, you have to show documentation that you were legally absent (medical note from a doctor or similar).
As?the?teaching involves laboratory and/or field work, you should consider taking out a separate travel and personal risk insurance.?Read about your insurance cover as a student.
Access to teaching
A student who has completed compulsory instruction and coursework and has had these approved, is not entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework. A student who has been admitted to a course, but who has not completed compulsory instruction and coursework or had these approved, is entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework, depending on available capacity.
Examination
Final written (4 hours) or oral exam which?counts 100 % towards the?final grade. The examination form is determined after the semester has started.
This course has a mandatory laboratory course that must be approved before you can take the final exam.
It will also be counted as one of the three attempts to sit the exam for this course, if you sit the exam for one of the following courses: KJM-MENA9555 – Polymers and Macromolecules
Examination support material
Calculator
The calculator must fulfill the requirements specified by The Department of Mathematics (only in Norwegian).
Grading scale
Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F is a fail. Read more about the grading system.
Resit an examination
Students who can document a valid reason for absence from the regular examination are offered a postponed examination at the beginning of the next semester.
Re-scheduled examinations are not offered to students who withdraw during, or did not pass the original examination.
More about examinations at UiO
- Use of sources and citations
- Special exam arrangements due to individual needs
- Withdrawal from an exam
- Illness at exams / postponed exams
- Explanation of grades and appeals
- Resitting an exam
- Cheating/attempted cheating
You will find further guides and resources at the web page on examinations at UiO.