CHED 193 |
| Courses in Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry, with their emphasis on solid-state structure and periodic trends, provide an excellent opportunity to introduce materials chemistry projects into the laboratory curriculum. At Hamilton College, we have introduced several one-week experiments that use the less familiar techniques of UV-vis and fluorescence spectroscopy and x-ray powder diffraction along with NMR and IR spectroscopy to characterize inorganic compounds and materials. During the last portion of the course, each student uses these methods to complete an individual project in materials or nano-chemistry. The students then share what they have learned during a class poster session. The entire lab program, with its emphasis on nanochemistry and materials chemistry, will be outlined with particular attention to the final individual projects ranging in topics from the synthesis and characterization of cadmium nanoparticles to magnetic garnets.
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General Posters
7:30 PM-9:30 PM, Sunday, March 25, 2007 Hyatt Regency Chicago -- Riverside Center, Poster
Division of Chemical Education |