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 Academic Year: | 2018/9 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Chemistry |
| Credits: | 3 [equivalent to 6 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 60 |
| Level: | Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7) |
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| Assessment Summary: | EX 100% |
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| Requisites: | Before taking this module you must take CH20151 OR take CH20152 |
| Description:
| Aims: This core unit will build on knowledge of physical and organic chemistry from years 1 -3, and describe why and how functional / responsive interfaces can be constructed, detailing the synthetic chemistry strategies that can be deployed. The course will go on to detail how such interfaces can be characterised, both chemically, and in terms of their response to external stimuli. Numerous examples from the literature will be studied, and by the end of the course students should be able to describe the construction, characterisation and action of a responsive interface e.g. in a sensor or actuator system. Learning Outcomes: After studying the Unit, students should be: * Able to design functional / responsive interfaces * Understand the basis of molecular self-assembly * Be familiar and able to design thin film architectures based on a number of synthetic chemistry steps including 'Click' chemistry and peptide coupling. * Be able to describe mode of action and understand response from instrumentation used to analyse such interfaces, including AFM, SPR, SPR-fluorescence, ellipsommetry, voltammetry and impedance spectroscopy. * Be able to analyse real time kinetic binding data and obtain key kinetic and thermodynamic constants relating to specific substrate - target binding events. * Be familiar with the erecent chemical literature relating to the design, construction and mode of action of functional interfaces Skills: Problem solving (T, F, A), Scientific writing (F, A), Independent working (F). Content: * Why functional interfaces * Which substrate * Building up: self assembly and chemical strategies * Polymers on surfaces: why and how * Characterising the interface * Real time analysis of substrate - target binding * Examples from the literature. |
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CH40207 is Compulsory on the following programmes:Department of Chemistry
CH40207 is Optional on the following programmes:Department of Chemistry
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