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OsakaUx: Self-Assembly for Functional Materials

Learn design and structures of functional materials formed via self-assembly.

5 weeks
3–5 hours per week
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule
This course is archived

About this course

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Self-assembly is an important and useful method for creating functional materials. This course deals with the fundamentals and recent developments in functional materials formed through self-assembly of molecules and/or ions. Topics in this course includes design, structures and properties of the functional materials, and their applications in organic electronics, catalysis, and artificial photosynthesis.

At a glance

  • Institution: OsakaUx
  • Subject: Chemistry
  • Level: Introductory
  • Prerequisites:

    Learners should have learned the college-level of chemistry.

  • Language: English
  • Video Transcript: English

What you'll learn

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• Control of molecular assemblies and properties in solid-state

• Fundamentals and applications of clathrate crystals

• Fundamentals and applications of self-assembled organic electronic materials

• Assembly of metal ions for the development of molecular catalysts

• Assembly of molecular catalysts for artificial photosynthetic reactions

Who can take this course?

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