Materials Chemistry III: Electrochemistry for Energy and Environment

Graduate / Professional

This course aims to serve graduate and senior undergraduate students from various academic departments who are interested in learning electrochemistry and its related materials chemistry for performing energy and environmental research. The most important task of this course is to discuss and understand how the properties of electrochemical energy storage and conversion devices are fundamentally determined by their chemistry. Battery and electrocatalytic reactions that are of current research focus are introduced and discussed in detail. State-of-the-art materials development, structural characterization, electrochemical reaction studies, mechanistic investigation, and reactor engineering related to these reactions are also be covered. Prerequisites: undergraduate-level general chemistry (CHEM 161 and CHEM 165 or CHEM 163 and CHEM 167), inorganic chemistry (CHEM 252), and thermodynamics/physical chemistry (CHEM 332) or equivalent level of knowledge. ½ Course cr TTh 9am-10:15am