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Colloids, Surfaces and Catalysis
CEITEC VUT-DS204AAcad. year: 2018/2019
PhD course is focused on selected topics in physical chemistry of heterogeneous systems containing solid phase with an active surface such as colloidal nanoparticle systems and heterogeneous inorganic catalysts. The course aims to broaden students' knowledge in the field of colloid chemistry of inorganic nanoparticle systems and heterogeneous chemocatalysis, electrocatalysis and biocatalysis with inorganic nanoparticle catalysts.
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2. Electrical double layer
3. Electrokinetic phenomena-electrophoresis
4. Electrostatic and polymer-induced colloid stability
5. Rheology of dispersions
6. Principles of molecular heterogeneous catalysis
7. Reactivity of transition-metal surfaces
8. Mechanisms of heterogeneous catalysis
9. Colloidal nanoparticles in catalysis
10. Electrocatalysis
11. Heterogeneous photocatalysis
12. Biocatalysis; relationship with chemocatalysis
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Basic literature
P.C. Hiemenz, R. Rajagopalan: Principles of colloid and surface chemistry, Marcel Dekker, New York 1997
R. Richards (ed.): Surface and nanomolecular catalysis, CRC Press, Boca Raton 2006
R.J. Hunter: Foundations of Colloid Science, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2001
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