2021 Faculty Courses School of Materials and Chemical Technology Undergraduate major in Materials Science and Engineering
Interface Chemistry
- Academic unit or major
- Undergraduate major in Materials Science and Engineering
- Instructor(s)
- Sachiko Matsushita / Takeshi Kondo
- Class Format
- Lecture
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 3-4 Tue (S321) / 3-4 Fri (S321)
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- MAT.C313
- Number of credits
- 200
- Course offered
- 2021
- Offered quarter
- 3Q
- Syllabus updated
- Jul 10, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
Interfacial phenomena and colloid are important items associated with almost all of the daily life and industrial fields, such as organic, inorganic, polymer, biomaterials, and so on. To understanding the colloids and interfacial science, wide knowledge such as thermodynamics, quantum chemistry, and spectroscopy is required. This lecture starts from the basic question "what is colloid and interface?" and explain a lot of interfacial phenomena with the thoeries.
Course description and aims
This lecture gives...
-understanding various kinds of colloids and interface phenomena using physical chemistry
-knowledge about the industrial application of the interfacial phenomena.
-how to use the knowledge for material design.
Keywords
Colloid, Suspension, Interface, Self-assembly, Adsorption
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
Explain using black board and slides, sometimes including handout or short test.
If our campus recommends online, the lectures will be online except for the test.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Introduction of Colloid and Interface | Introduction of Colloid and Interface |
| Class 2 | Air-liquid interface | Study about air/liquid interface. Surface tension, for example |
| Class 3 | Liquid-liquid interface | Study about liquid/liquid interface |
| Class 4 | Solid-liquid interface 1 | Study about contact angle, wetting, heat of immersion.bout the liquid-liquid interface |
| Class 5 | Solid-liquid interface 2 | Study about contact angle, wetting, heat of immersion. |
| Class 6 | Insoluble molecular monolayer | Basic study of insoluble molecular monolayers Study about the liquid-liquid interface |
| Class 7 | Electric characteristics of interface 1 | Study about electric double layer, electrophoresis, et al. |
| Class 8 | Surfactant | Study about surfactant |
| Class 9 | Bubble | Study about foam and foam separation |
| Class 10 | Electric characteristics of interface 2 | Study about electric double layer, electrophoresis, et al. |
| Class 11 | Emulsion | Study about the Emulsion |
| Class 12 | Solid-air interface | Study about the adsorption at interface (including N2-BET method) |
| Class 13 | fluid | fluid |
| Class 14 | preliminary date | preliminary date |
| Class 15 | Examination | Check the level of knowledge acquired. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 30 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
The textbook is written in Japanese.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Fumio Kitahara, 「界面・コロイド化学の基礎」講談社サイエンティフィク
Evaluation methods and criteria
Exam. (80%), Report (20%)
Related courses
- MAT.P306 ： Physical Chemistry (Surface)
Prerequisites
Nothing.