Student choice literature-based take home exam question

Submitted by Hilary Eppley / DePauw University on Fri, 01/24/2014 - 15:27
Description

During my junior/senior level inorganic course, we did several guided literature discussions over the course of the semester where the students read papers and answered a series of questions based on them (some from this site!).  As part of my take home final exam, I gave the students an open choice literature analysis question where they had the chance to integrate topics from the semester into their interpretation of a recent paper of their own choice from Inorganic Chemistry, this time with limited guidance.

Solar-Powered Oxidation of Water

Submitted by Anne Bentley / Lewis & Clark College on Tue, 01/07/2014 - 18:14
Description

Students in a half-credit nanomaterials chemistry course read an article describing the electrochemical deposition of BiVO4 (Kyoung-Shin Choi and Jason A. Seabold, “Efficient and Stable Photo-Oxidation of Water by a Bismuth Vanadate Photoanode Coupled with an Iron Oxyhydroxide Oxygen Evolution Catalyst” J. Am. Chem. Soc.

IC Top 10 first day activity

Submitted by Sheila Smith / University of Michigan- Dearborn on Thu, 09/05/2013 - 09:32
Description

I modified the Barb Reisner/Joanne Stewart/Maggie Geselbracht First Day TOC activity (https://www.ionicviper.org/class-activity/introducing-inorganic-chemist…) to take advantage of the quarterly list of Top 10 Most Read articles that IC sends out.  This is delivered to me as an email from ACS pubs and I am sure that it is available to anyone who wished to subscribe to the updates.  I have attached a pdf copy of the August 2013 update as an example.

Five Slides About a Simple powder XRD Analysis

Submitted by Rebecca / The Ohio State University on Sat, 06/29/2013 - 21:28
Description

These slides walk students through a solid state synthesis with a simple powder XRD analysis. This presentation was made to answer the question “How do I know what came out of the furnace?” for a general chemistry audience, assuming very little XRD knowledge. Specifically this shows using XRD with database searching to determine phase purity through pattern matching.

(This does not cover the fundamentals of XRD, please see related links for that.)

 

Five Slides about X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS)

Submitted by Sophia E. Hayes / Washington University on Fri, 06/28/2013 - 09:35
Description

This is a short presentation giving an overview of x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), meant to be an introduction for those who are unfamiliar with the technique.

Brief introduction to local surface plasmons (LSPRs) for nanoparticle color

Submitted by Sarah K. St. Angelo / Dickinson College on Fri, 06/28/2013 - 09:30
Description

This is a very brief introduction to the origin of color in nanoparticle systems.  A link to a video is included in the slides that shows the addition of the reducing agent to the gold precursor solution.  The link is also available as a Web Resourse (below).

Introduction to Synchrotron Radiation

Submitted by Megan Strayer / The Pennsylvania State University on Thu, 06/27/2013 - 15:35
Description

This 5 slides about gives a basic introduction to synchrotron radiation.  Information includes how the particles are accelerated, how they travel to the individual instruments, and where synchrotrons in the USA are located.

Building hybrid nanoparticles

Submitted by Angela Jovanovic-Bischof / Penn State on Thu, 06/27/2013 - 15:02
Description

This in-class activity was created at the NSF-TUES sponsored workshop at Penn State, June 2013.  It is based on the article from Ray Schaak’s group (Buck, Matthew R.; Bondi, James F.; Schaak, Raymond E. “A total-synthesis framework for the construction of high-order colloidal hybrid nanoparticles” Nature Chemistry 2012, 4, 37-44, DOI: 10.1038/NCHEM.1195), which Ray presented at the workshop.

Defining Crystalline/Amorphous Phases of Nanoparticles through X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy and X-ray Diffraction: The Case of Nickel Phosphide

Submitted by Carrie Read Spray / Eastern Nazarene College on Thu, 06/27/2013 - 13:30
Description

This literature discussion activity is designed to highlight the use of different instrumentation and what details can be gained from each instrument.  It should also help the students review their knowledge of crystal structure, types of crystals, and amorphous solids.  The paper is from Chemistry of Materials, 2013, 25, 2394-2403 (DOI: 10.1021/cm303490y).  The paper should be given one week prior to class discussion, ideally after covering some of the instrumentation in class including X-ray dif

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