The course is designed as a pre-diploma laboratory in which students work on a topic chosen from the offer of the teachers of the study programme. Each student receives a term paper assignment, which he/she then independently develops. While working on the topic, students will practically learn the procedures of synthesis of different types of materials and commonly used methods of their characterization. This can then be used in the preparation of their thesis. Students will present their results to other students and lecturers of the Department of General and Inorganic Chemistry in the form of a presentation. Week 1-2: Research on the assigned topic. Week 3-5: Synthetic experiments on the preparation of the assigned materials (high temperature synthesis in air and vacuum, vaporization, sputtering, drawing of single crystals by the Bridgman method, etc.). Week 6-11: Characterisation of the prepared materials by available experimental methods: X-ray diffraction analysis, specific gravity, melting points, softening points, optical properties (reflectivity, UV transmittance). VIS-NIR region, refractive index, dispersion), FT-IR spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, MAS NMR spectroscopy, XRF spectroscopy, EPR, thermal analysis (DTA, DSC, TG, TD, TMA, high temperature microspectroscopy), optical and electron microscopy, measurement of electrical and thermoelectric properties, etc. Week 12-13: Evaluation of the experiments and elaboration of the results into a term paper. Defence of the term paper.
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Groza, Joanna R. Materials processing handbook. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-8493-3216-6.
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Hüsing, Nicola. Synthesis of inorganic materials. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH, 2012. ISBN 978-3-527-32714-0.
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Warner, Terence E.. Synthesis, properties, and mineralogy of important inorganic materials. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2011. ISBN 978-0-470-74612-7.
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