KJM4121 – Inorganic Materials Chemistry

Schedule, syllabus and examination date

Course content

Many major global challenges can only be solved by implementing novel materials with tailored properties. To be able to develop such material technology, we need to understand advanced materials chemistry and its interplay with functionality.

The course provides an introduction to key topics in advanced inorganic chemistry, particularly inorganic materials chemistry. The course builds upon fundamental inorganic chemistry and provides a broad foundation for students aiming for further specialization in inorganic-, materials-, and nanochemistry. It covers the atomic arrangement of solids and how defects affect this arrangement. Furthermore, we study non-stoichiometry and phase diagrams, and how conventional bonding theories can be used to understand electronic structure and chemical bonds in crystals.

Learning outcome

After completing the course, you will be able to:

  • Explain the atomic arrangement of periodic solid compounds by describing Bravais lattices, as well as point- and space symmetry.
  • Discuss how packing of spheres and filling of interstitial spaces between them give rise to descriptions of important crystal structures.
  • Visualize the structure of solid compounds using well-documented software.
  • Explain defect formation and compare different types of defects based on Kr?ger-Vink notation.
  • Apply defect chemical principles to account for non-stoichiometry in oxides, and describe the transport of point defects in them.
  • Assess phase diagrams (two-/three-component) and discuss structural phase transitions in light of these and symmetry considerations.
  • Explain chemical bonds in solid compounds, with particular focus on molecular orbital (MO) theory and the path from MOs to periodic structures.
  • Explain how electronic band structure arises for simple model systems, and describe real two- and three-dimensional band structures.
  • Compare ligand and crystal field theories and how these models explain d-d electron transitions, as well as being able to describe simple absorption spectra based on this.

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:

KJM1121 – Inorganic Chemistry and either KJM1101 – Generell kjemi or MENA1001 – Materials, Energy and Nanotechnology.

Overlapping courses

Teaching

The teaching extends over a full semester, and consists of:

  • 56 hours of lectures
  • 28 hours colloquia
  • 2 mandatory assignments - in the form of written and/or oral presentations.

For students who have previously completed MENA2000 (students in Fornybar energi og nanoteknologi (bachelor)), lectures in course weeks 2 and 3 are replaced with laboratory exercises.

Completed and approved laboratory courses and/or mandatory assignments are valid for six (6) semesters beyond the semester in which they were approved. After this period, you must retake the laboratory course and/or mandatory assignments in order to be eligible to sit 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 laboratory 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's two years) 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: KJM3121 – Inorganic Materials Chemistry

Examination support material

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

This course offers both postponed and resit of examination. Read more:

More about examinations at UiO

You will find further guides and resources at the web page on examinations at UiO.

Last updated from FS (Common Student System) Nov. 10, 2024 6:14:00 AM

Facts about this course

Level
Master
Credits
10
Teaching
Autumn
Examination
Autumn
Teaching language
Norwegian (English on request)