Graduate courses are cross-listed with undergraduate courses with slight modification to course content and assignments.
Materials chemistry serves as a foundational science for humanity’s manufacture of goods and production of energy. Presently, we find ourselves in a period of transition towards more sustainable solutions for meeting society’s increasing energy needs. Notably, the adoption of renewable sources of electricity drives an unprecedented demand for large-scale energy storage and all-around improvements in energy conversion efficiency for which there remain substantive limitations in the component materials. By developing an atomistic understanding of how materials are made, described, and designed, you will be equipped with some of the fundamental thinking tools needed to derive the structure and properties of the next generation of high-performance materials in sectors including electrochemical energy storage, solar energy conversion, illumination, and gas storage & separations.
This class is taught in tandem with CH 367C.
This class is taught in tandem with CH 390K.
CH 302C is the second half of the Foundations of Chemistry designed to provide you with a fundamental understanding of the principles and concepts of chemistry. The course covers major themes including electrochemistry, reaction kinetics, and the descriptive chemistry of the elements.
The Freshman Research Initiative (FRI) is a program at UT Austin that allows freshmen to participate in research in a variety of fields. The Inorganic Synthesis & Materials Discovery stream is focused on the synthesis of new materials and their characterization.