Interfacial phenomena are a key item of relevance to almost all areas of everyday life and industry. They are the basis for all applications in energy conversion, biomaterials, electronic materials, and so on. The aim of this course is to provide a practical grounding in the broad field of colloid and interface chemistry in general.
By taking this course, students will be able to know and explain the basic vocabulary of colloidal interface chemistry.
Colloid, Interface, Surfactant, adsorption, desorption, contact angle, electric double layer
✔ Specialist skills | ✔ Intercultural skills | Communication skills | Critical thinking skills | ✔ Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
Explain using black board and slides, sometimes including handout or short test.
If our campus recommends online, the lectures will be online except for the test.
Course schedule | Required learning | |
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Class 1 | Introduction of Colloid and Interface | Introduction of Colloid and Interface |
Class 2 | Liquid/liquid, liquid/solid interface | Study about air/liquid interface. Surface tension, for example |
Class 3 | Liquid/liquid interface | Study about liquid/liquid interface |
Class 4 | Solid/air interface | Study about the adsorption at interface (including N2-BET method) |
Class 5 | Insoluble molecular monolayer | Study about the liquid-liquid interface |
Class 6 | Powder, aggregation, dispersion | Learn how to make and control powders as raw materials |
Class 7 | Surfactant | Study about surfactant |
Class 8 | Bubble | Study about foam and foam separation |
Class 9 | Bonding, joining | Learn about the difficulties and methods of bonding materials |
Class 10 | Emulsion | Study about the Emulsion |
Class 11 | Electric characteristics of interface 1 | Learn about the physical properties of interfaces, such as the work function |
Class 12 | Electric characteristics of interface 2 | Learn about the electrochemical properties of interfaces, such as the electric double layer |
Class 13 | Porous structures and fluid | Learn about porous structures and fluid |
Class 14 | preliminary date | preliminary date |
Class 15 | Examination | Check the level of knowledge acquired. |
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 30 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
The textbook is written in Japanese.
Fumio Kitahara, 「界面・コロイド化学の基礎」講談社サイエンティフィク
Exam. (80%), Report (20%)
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