Materials chemistry

8 Oct 2019

1FLO: Post-Synthetic Modifications for Tunneling Electrical Connection to the Interior of Metal-Organic Frameworks

Submitted by daniel kissel, Lewis University
Evaluation Methods: 

assessment of students will be preformed by grading their answers to the questions in the activity.

Description: 

This is a 1 Figure lit discussion (1FLO) based on a Figure from a 2015 JACS article on synthesizing conductive MOFs. This LO introduces students to Metal-Organic Frameworks and focuses on characterization techniques and spectroscopy. 

Prerequisites: 
General Chemistry
Corequisites: 
No Corequisites
Topics Covered: 
Coordination chemistry
Electron transfer
Electronic spectroscopy
Materials chemistry
Nanoscience
Course Level: 
Second year
Learning Goals: 

As a result of completing this activity, students will be able to...

  • define what metal-organic Frameworks and Post-synthetic Modifications are
  • understand MOF terminology and notation
  • discover how mass transport and electron mobility effect conductivity
  • calculate energies of electronic transitions in electron volts
  • make connections betweeen diagrams and material sturctures
  • compare optical and microscopy techniques
  • discover the concept of photocurrect and how it could be used in different applications
Subdiscipline: 
Nanochemistry
Solid State and Materials Chemistry
Related activities: 
Energy Nuggets: MOF’s for CO<sub>2</sub> Sequestration
Implementation Notes: 

Students should be able to complete the activity without any prior knowledge of MOFs, although some introduction to MOFs and UV-vis absorption spectroscopy would be nice.

Web Resources: 
Tunneling Electrical Connection to the Interior of Metal-Organic Frameworks
8 Jun 2019

VIPEr Fellows 2019 Workshop Favorites

Submitted by Barbara Reisner, James Madison University

During our first fellows workshop, the first cohort of VIPEr fellows pulled together learning objects that they've used and liked or want to try the next time they teach their inorganic courses.

Subdiscipline: 
Atomic Structure and Periodicity
Bioinorganic Chemistry
Coordination Chemistry
Electrochemistry
Introductory Chemistry
Main Group Chemistry
Molecular Structure and Bonding
Nanochemistry
Organometallic Chemistry
Science Skills, Practices, and Resources
Solid State and Materials Chemistry
Spectroscopy and Structural Methods
Topics Covered: 
Acid-base chemistry
Bioinorganic chemistry
Bonding models: Discrete molecules
Bonding models: Extended systems
Catalysis
Chemical literature
Communication skills
Computer modeling
Coordination chemistry
Descriptive chemistry
Diffraction
Electron transfer
Electronic spectroscopy
Electronic structure
Ethics
Extended structure
f-block chemistry
Green chemistry
Group theory & applications
Intermolecular interactions
Kinetics
Main group chemistry
Materials chemistry
Molecular structure
Nanoscience
Nomenclature
Nuclear chemistry
Organometallic chemistry
Periodic trends
Physical methods / analytical techniques
Physical properties
Professional skills development
Reaction mechanisms
Solids & solid state chemistry
Symmetry
Synthesis and reactivity
Thermodynamics
Visualization
Prerequisites: 
No Prerequisites
First Semester Inorganic Chemistry / Foundation Course in Inorganic Chemistry
General Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
Physical Chemistry: Quantum Mechanics
Physical Chemistry: Thermodynamics
Corequisites: 
No Corequisites
General Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
Physical Chemistry: Quantum Mechanics
Physical Chemistry: Thermodynamics
Course Level: 
First year
Second year
Upper Division
3 Jan 2019

Venn Diagram activity- What is inorganic Chemistry?

Submitted by Sheila Smith, University of Michigan- Dearborn
Evaluation Methods: 

I did not assess this piece, except by participation in the discussion

Evaluation Results: 

I asked my students to write an open ended essay to answer the question (asked in that first day exercise): What is Inorganic Chemistry.

Interestingly, 2 of my 15 students drew a version of this Venn Diagram to accompany their essays.

Description: 

This Learning Object came to being sort of (In-)organically on the first day of my sophomore level intro to inorganic course. As I always do, I started the course with the IC Top 10 First Day Activity. (https://www.ionicviper.org/classactivity/ic-top-10-first-day-activity).  One of the pieces of that In class activity asks students- novices at Inorganic Chemistry- to sort the articles from the Most Read Articles from Inorganic Chemistry into bins of the various subdisciplines of Inorganic Chemistry.  As the discussion unfolded, I just sort of started spontaneously drawing a Venn Diagram on the board.  

I think Venn diagrams are an excellent logic tool, one that is too little applied these days for anything other than internet memes.  This is a nice little add-on activity to the first day.
 

Your Venn diagram will likely look different from mine.  You're right.

 

Learning Goals: 

The successful student should be able to:

  • identify the various sub-disciplines of inorganic chemistry.  
  • apply the rules of logic diagrams to construct overlapping fields of an Venn diagram.

 

Prerequisites: 
No Prerequisites
Corequisites: 
No Corequisites
Equipment needs: 

colored chalk may be handy but not required.

Topics Covered: 
Bioinorganic chemistry
Coordination chemistry
Descriptive chemistry
Materials chemistry
Organometallic chemistry
Solids & solid state chemistry
Course Level: 
First year
Second year
Upper Division
Subdiscipline: 
Bioinorganic Chemistry
Coordination Chemistry
f-block Chemistry
Introductory Chemistry
Main Group Chemistry
Nanochemistry
Organometallic Chemistry
Solid State and Materials Chemistry
Related activities: 
IC Top 10 first day activity
Cool first day activities?
Introducing Inorganic Chemistry - First Day Activities
Implementation Notes: 

I used this activity in conjuction with a first day activity LO (also published on VIPEr).

I shared a clean copy (this one) with the students after the class where we discussed this.

 

Time Required: 
10-15 minutes

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