27681 - Physical Chemistry LM

Learning outcomes

We aim to develop some ability to describe physico chemical phenomena using mathematical models and critically discuss their limits. In this course we focus on properties and phenomena of industrial interest.

Course contents

Reminder of equilibrium thermodynamics of multi component open systems. Properties of surfaces and interfaces; surface and interface tension. Young-Laplace and Kelvin equations. Thermodynamics of interfaces according to Gibbs. Surfactants and their effects. Adsorption. Henry, Langmuir and BET isotherms. Thermodynamics of adsorption. Mechanisms of heterogeneous catalysis. Complex phase diagrams. Linear phenomenological transfer laws. Fundamentals of non equilibrium linear thermodynamics. Onsager's reciprocity relations and their applications. Fundamentals of rheology; the stress tensor, elastic bodies, newtonian and non newtonian fluids, viscoelastic materials. Simple constitutive equations for non newtonian fluids. 

 

Readings/Bibliography

P. Atkins, J. De Paula, "Chimica Fisica", Zanichelli, Bologna 2004;

HJ Butt, K. Graf, M. Kappl, "Physics and Chemistry of Interfaces", Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co, Weinheim,2003;

S. Kjelstrup, D. Bedeaux: "Elements of Irreversible Thermodynamics", International Centre for Applied Thermodynamics, Istanbul 2001.

A.W. Adamson, A.P. Gast, "Physical Chemistry of Surfaces", J. Wiley & Sons, New York, 1997.

D. Kondepudi, I. Prigogine, "Modern Thermodynamics", John Wiley and Sons, 2007

J.W. Goodwin and R.W. Hughes "Rheology for Chemists - An Introduction", The Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge 2000.

Lecture notes.

Teaching methods

Lectures 80%, assisted exercises 20%.

Assessment methods

Written and oral examination.

Teaching tools

Video projector and computer room;  computer codes.

Links to further information

http://www2.fci.unibo.it/~oskar/

Office hours

See the website of Gian Luigi Bendazzoli