KJM4120 – Inorganic Materials Chemistry
Course description
Course content
The course describes some key topics in inorganic chemistry and inorganic materials chemistry. It provides a solid background for students who intend to continue with master's degree studies within inorganic, materials, and?nano-chemistry. The main topics are: structure-property relations; symmetry; chemical bonding; electronic, magnetic, and optical properties of complexes; thermodynamics; stability; and non-stoichiometry.
Learning outcome
After completing the course, you:
- know building principles and have insight into important structure types for inorganic compounds
- can use symmetry and crystallography as tools to describe the atomic arrangement of molecules, complexes, and solids
- have insight into structure-property relationships of functional inorganic materials
- are able to describe bonding and electronic properties of complex ions and certain inorganic compounds
- can explain thermodynamic stability and non-stoichiometry of inorganic compounds as a function of pressure and temperature, and with respect to the partial pressure of gases
- have insight into the collection of thermodynamic data ?as well as X-ray diffraction data and are able to evaluate data quality and the use of such results within inorganic chemistry
- can apply simulation tools for thermodynamics, gas equilibria, crystal structure considerations, and electronic properties of complexes
- have received, if your background is a MENA student, experience in laboratory work and characterization of inorganic compounds at a level corresponding to the relevant module for KJM students in KJM2500
- understand how atomic arrangement and chemistry of compounds can give rise to functional properties and potential applications
- can find and compile relevant literature and give a seminar on a prescribed topic
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
KJM1121 – Inorganic Chemistry, KJM1130 – Physical Chemistry I - Thermodynamics and Kinetics, and either KJM2500 – Synthesis and Characterisation or MENA2000 – Fundamental structure of solid materials.
Overlapping courses
- 10 credits overlap with KJM3120 – Inorganic Materials Chemistry (discontinued).
- 6 credits overlap with KJM-MENA3120 – Inorgnaic Chemistry II - Materials and Applications (discontinued).
- 6 credits overlap with KJM3121 – Inorganic Materials Chemistry.
- 6 credits overlap with KJM4121 – Inorganic Materials Chemistry.
- 4 credits overlap with MENA3000 – Functional materials (discontinued).
Teaching
The teaching extends over a full semester, and consists of:
- 45 hours of lectures
- 15 hours of lectures for students at Chemistry (master) and single course students.
- 20 hours laboratory course for students Materials Science for Energy and Nanotechnology (master)
- 30 hours colloquium teaching
- 2 mandatory assignments
The?laboratory course is mandatory for?students at Materials Science for Energy and Nanotechnology (master) and must be approved prior to the final examination.
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 in order to prepare for the exam.
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).
You have to be able to show documentation that you have passed the HSE courses on the first lab exercise.
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 exam (4 hours) which counts 100 % towards the final?grade.
This course has two mandatory exercises that must be approved before you can sit the final?exam.
Students at?Materials Science for Energy and Nanotechnology (master) must in addition have an approved laboratory course?
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: KJM3120 – Inorganic Materials Chemistry (discontinued)
Examination support material
- A calculator that must fulfill the requirements?specified by The Department of Mathematics?(only in Norwegian).
- Formula collection, as spesified by the course responsible.
Language of examination
Subjects taught in English will only offer the exam paper in English. You may write your examination paper in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or English.
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.