The course is intended to provide a basic chemical culture, required to describe the structure and chemistry of the materials and to deal with the interpretation of the natural, environmental and technological processes.
The course is intended to provide a basic chemical culture, required to understand and address basic problems related to the description and properties of materials and their technological applications in relation to the atomic structure, chemical bonds, spontaneity and rate of chemical reactions, equilibria and processes.
Lectures
Inorganic nomenclature (oxides, anhydrides, hydroxides, acids, salts); stoichiometry of the chemical reactions (double replacement and redox reactions), the mole concept, concentration of the solutions.
Atomic structure: atomic models, quantum numbers, orbitals, Heisenberg uncertainty principle, Pauli principle, electron configurations of atoms. Periodic table and properties. Essential on nuclear energy and radioactivity. Chemical bonds: covalent, ionic, metallic bonds, hydrogen bond, intermolecular forces.
Gases: the gas laws (Boyle’s, Charles’s, Gay-Lussac’s and Avogadro’s laws), ideal and real gas law, volume of gases in the chemical reactions.
Solids: atomic, ionic, metallic molecular crystals. Band structure. Magnetic, electrical, mechanical propeties. Alloys. An introduction to organic chemistry: hybridization of atomic orbitals in Carbon atom, common functional groups. Synthetic polymers: polymerization processes, thermoplastic/thermosetting polymers, copolymers. Structure and properties of polymers. Liquid crystals.
Fundamentals of Thermodynamics: 1° and 2° principle of Thermodynamics, Enthalpy, Entropy, Gibbs Free Energy and spontaneity. Chemical equilibria: the equilibrium constant, relation between Gibbs Free Energy and equilibrium in homogeneous systems. Physical equilibria: phase diagrams. Chemical kinetic: reaction rate, Arrhenius’s law. Acids and Bases. Aqueous equilibria: pH calculation (strong and weak acids and bases). Electrochemistry: galvanic cells, electrolytic cells, essential on corrosion.
Course materials in aulaweb. Bibliography: P.Zanello, R.Gatto, R.Zanoni, Conoscere la chimica; Fondamenti di Chimica Generale e inorganico con elementi di chimica organica, CEA ed.; P.Atkins, L.Jones, Principi di Chimica, Zanichelli ed.; V. Lorenzelli, Elementi di Chimica per le Facoltà di Ingegneria, Genova, Ed. Univ.; I.Bertini, C.Luchinat, F.Mani, Chimica, materia, tecnologia, ambiente, Casa Ed. Ambrosiana.
M. Panizza, G. Cerisola, Esercizi di chimica per Ingegneria, Ed. ECIG.
Ricevimento: By appointment. E-mail: Elisabetta.Finocchio@unige.it, phone: 010.3536040. Address: DICCA, P.le J.F.Kennedy, 1, Pad. D, 2nd floor (Genova)
ELISABETTA FINOCCHIO (President)
MARINA DELUCCHI
MARCO PANIZZA
GIANGUIDO RAMIS
CHEMISTRY
Written exam with optional oral. The student who has passed the written test with a grade higher than or equal to 18/30 may decide whether to hold an oral exam or accept the grade of the written test.
At the end of the course, the student must have acquired the basic knowledge necessary to understand and deal with issues concerning chemical reactions and processes, structures and properties of materials and their technological applications.
