Catalysis Science at Molecular Level

Numbering Code G-ENG14 6H416 LJ60
G-ENG14 6H416 LE60
Year/Term 2022 ・ First semester
Number of Credits 1.5 Course Type Lecture
Target Year Target Student
Language Japanese Day/Period Fri.2
Instructor name TANAKA TSUNEHIRO (Graduate School of Engineering Professor)
TERAMURA KENTARO (Graduate School of Engineering Professor)
Outline and Purpose of the Course Scattering theory of an electron for XAFS Analysis and Introduction to Catalytic Science.
The lectures are delivered online.
Course Goals Learning fundamentals of catalytic science and acquiring elementary scattering theory to understand XAFS spectroscopy as a powerful tool for catalyst characterization.
Schedule and Contents 1 Solving Schroedinger equation in central force field (2)
variable separation method; angular momentum; radial equation; solution for bound condition; solution for scattering condition

2 Hydrogen-like atom problem in two dimension(1)
Schroedinger equation of hydrogen-like atom in two dimension is solved according to the solution in lecture 1.

3 Fermi's golden rule(1)
perturbation theory (non-degenerated system); time dependent Shroedinger equation; time-dependent pertubation theory

4 EXAFS Analysis(1)
EXAFS analysis

5 Application of EXAFS(1)
examples and recent topics

6 Introduction to catalytic science(1)
fundamentals of catalyst and catalysis; design of catalysts

7 Introduction to photocatalysis(1)
fundamentals of photocatalyst and photocatalysis

8 Industrial catalysis(1)
catalysts for petroleum chemistry

9 Chemistry of adsorption(1)
physisorption and chemisorption

10 Physical chemistry for catalysis(1)
thermodynamics and reaction kinetics in catalysis.

11 Feed back(1)
Evaluation Methods and Policy Absolute evaluation

Students will submit assignments to profs. Tanaka and Teramura and evaluation will be done on the basis of the total scores given by each professor.
Course Requirements Knowledge of physical chemistry like quantum chemistry, thermodynamics and spectroscopy is preferred.
Study outside of Class (preparation and review) Submission of solution of problems shown at the end of several classes and of report assignment on a recent scientific paper of catalysis.
Textbooks Textbooks/References No text book.
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