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TU-Clausthal Institute of Electrochemistry
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Courses

The courses listed below are held regularly at the Institute of Electrochemistry. The individual courses can be booked in the respective semester via Stud.IP.

The courses from the module "Introduction to the Chemistry of Brewing" can be found on the website of the Research Brewery.

This lecture takes place every winter semester.

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Frank Endres

Prerequisites: The modules Physical Chemistry I and II, knowledge of physics and mathematics

Contents:

  • Introduction to scanning probe microscopy (STM, AFM)
  • SEM
  • Electron spectroscopy (XPS, AES)
  • Optical spectroscopy at interfaces (IR, Raman)
  • Quartz microbalance

This lecture takes place every winter semester.

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Frank Endres

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of physics and chemistry.

Learning objectives: Developing knowledge of the production and properties of some nanomaterials

Competencies: Specific knowledge and methodological competence to deepen or extend engineering topics

Content:

  • Natural nanomaterials
  • Metals
  • Semiconductors
  • Ferrofluids
  • Fullerenes
  • CNTs
  • graphene
  • Quantum Mechanics
  • Analytical methods
  • Ionic Liquids
  • Toxicology

This course takes place every winter semester.

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Frank Endres

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of physics and physical chemistry

Contents:

  • Fundamentals and terms,
  • Conductivity and interaction in ionic systems,
  • Potentials and structures at phase boundaries,
  • Potentials and currents,
  • investigation methods, reaction mechanisms,
  • Solid and molten ionic conductors as electrolyte systems,
  • Production processes,
  • Galvanic elements, analytical applications, photoelectrochemistry

This lecture takes place every winter semester.

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Frank Endres

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of physics, chemistry and materials science, as taught in the Bachelor's degree program in Materials Science and Engineering at Clausthal University of Technology

Contents:

  • Synthesis and properties of ionic liquids
  • Electrochemical window
  • Interface properties
  • Scanning tunneling and atomic force microscopy
  • Electrochemical deposition of aluminum and tantalum
  • Ultra-high vacuum electrochemistry

This lecture takes place every winter semester.

Lecturer: Honorary Professor Dr. Thomas Schubert, Managing Director of io-li-tec

Content: Insight into the latest results of industrial research and presentation of the industrial process

This lecture takes place every summer semester.

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Frank Endres

Prerequisites: Surface Physics and Chemistry or Materials Science and Materials Science as acquired in the Bachelor's degree program.

Contents:

  • Nernst equation
  • Electrode potential
  • Pourbaix diagrams
  • Butler-Volmer equation
  • Solid state kinetics
  • Polarization methods

This lecture takes place every summer semester.

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Frank Endres

This lecture takes place every winter semester.

Special feature: This lecture is held at the Institute of Electrochemistry in one winter semester and at the Institute of Physical Chemistry in the following winter semester.

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Frank Endres or Prof. Dr. Diethelm Johannsmann

Prerequisites: Chemistry (B.Sc.): Module AAC A

Learning objectives: The courses teach students the scientific fundamentals of the states of matter, the thermodynamics of equilibrium and the phase behavior of matter. Furthermore, the basic principles of the thermodynamics of interfaces are taught. Students will be able to apply and deepen the knowledge gained in the lecture by solving problems. The course primarily conveys technical competence.

Contents:

  • Structure of matter: gases, crystals, liquids and glasses
  • Fundamentals of thermodynamics: 1st and 2nd law of thermodynamics, thermochemistry
  • Phase equilibria and chemical equilibrium: single-matter and multi-matter systems, chemical equilibrium
  • Interfacial equilibria: single and multi-component systems, adsorption on solid surfaces

This lecture takes place every summer semester.

Special feature: This lecture is held at the Institute of Electrochemistry in one summer semester and at the Institute of Physical Chemistry in the following winter semester.

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Frank Endres or Prof. Dr. Diethelm Johannsmann

Prerequisites: Chemistry (B.Sc.): Module AAC A, knowledge of mathematics and physics

Contents:

  • Electrochemical equilibrium
  • Kinetic gas theory
  • Transport processes: heat flow, matter flow, charge flow, viscosity
  • Chemical kinetics: reaction rate, empirical rate equations, Arrhenius equation, activated complex, catalysis, kinetics of complex reactions
  • Research internship in the Sciencepool (W 3950/ S 3950), several institutes involved
  • Compulsory elective internship I (W 8054/ S 8053)
  • Compulsory elective internship II (W 8055/ S 8054)
  • Group work VT/CIW (W 8572), several institutes involved
  • Practical course in interfacial (electro)chemistry (S 8051), in cooperation with the Institute of Physical Chemistry
  • Group work Master VT/CIW (S 8572), several institutes involved