CH4716 Electrochemistry and Computational Chemistry
Academic year
2024 to 2025 Semester 1
Curricular information may be subject to change
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Key module information
SCOTCAT credits
10
SCQF level
SCQF level 10
Availability restrictions
Not automatically available to General Degree students
Planned timetable
To be arranged.
Module coordinator
Prof M Buck
Module Staff
Prof M Buck, Prof M Buehl
Module description
One component of the module covers electrolyte solutions and ionic conductivity, equilibrium electrochemistry, electrode processes and applications of electrochemistry. The other component is a computational element, and will introduce aspects of modern computational chemistry related to the electronic structure of atoms, molecules and solids to achieve a basic understanding of the underlying approximations made in practical calculations, and consider applications of computed structures and energies in chemistry.
Relationship to other modules
Pre-requisites
BEFORE TAKING THIS MODULE YOU MUST ( PASS CH2701 AND PASS 1 MODULE FROM {CH2501, CH2601, CH2603} ) OR ( PASS 2 MODULES FROM {CH2501, CH2701} AND PASS CH1601 OR PASS CH1202 )
Anti-requisites
YOU CANNOT TAKE THIS MODULE IF YOU TAKE CH4458
Assessment pattern
2-hour Written Examination = 100%
Re-assessment
Oral Re-assessment = 100%
Learning and teaching methods and delivery
Weekly contact
2 - 3 lectures per week over 9 - 10 weeks (within Weeks 1-11) and 2 - 3 tutorials in total
Scheduled learning hours
20
Guided independent study hours
80
Intended learning outcomes
- Have a notion of the scale and relevance of electrochemistry in industry
- Know about equilibrium electrochemistry
- Be familiar with basic aspects of electrode kinetics
- Be familiar with the Hartree-Fock method and basis sets used with it.
- Know about electron correlation and its approximations through ab initio and density functional methods.
- Be familiar with applications of computed structures and energies in chemistry.