2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses School of Materials and Chemical Technology Undergraduate major in Materials Science and Engineering
Kinetics of Chemical Reaction (Ceramics course)
- Academic unit or major
- Undergraduate major in Materials Science and Engineering
- Instructor(s)
- Toshiyuki Ikoma / Nobuhiro Matsushita
- Class Format
- Lecture (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 5-6 Tue / 5-6 Fri
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- MAT.C204
- Number of credits
- 200
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 2Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 28, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This course introduces the fundemental knowledge and principle of kinetic model and transport property for gas molecules, diffusion equation, reacion kinetics, mechanism of reaction. The reaction equations to produce materials look simple, but it actually composed of complex reactions. The driving force of these reactions depends on motion, transport and diffusion for molecules, and students are required to understand elementary reactions by way of experiment. Thus, the mechanism of reactions from chemical reaction rate based on temporal response should be comprehended and expressed, and students reach to understand mechanism of reactions.
Course description and aims
At the end of this course, students will be able to understand and explain principles of chemical reaction rate from both reaction dynamics to produce materials and kinetic theory of molecules.
Keywords
Transport Property of Gas, Motion in Liquid, Diffusion Equation, Mechanism of Reaction, Interpretation of Reaction Rate Equation, Collisional Theory, Transition State Theory
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
This lecture is given by distribution of necessary handout and blackboard demonstration. Students are given exercise problems related to the lecture given that day to solve. Required learning should be completed outside of the classroom for preparation and review purposes.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Outline of the lecture; Kinetic model 1 of gas: collision, pressure, velocity | Interpretation of Maxwell distribution of speeds |
| Class 2 | Kinetic model 2: collision frequency, mean free path | Quantitative understanding of gas molecule kinetics |
| Class 3 | Molecular motion: Flux, diffusion coefficient, thermal conductivity, viscosity, runoff | Fick's first law of diffusion Drift speed, Transport number, Ion-Ion interaction |
| Class 4 | Molecular motion in liquids: Conductivity of electrolyte solutions, mobility of ions | Molecular motion in liquids |
| Class 5 | Diffusion: A thermodynamic view, diffusion equation | Fick's first law of diffusion, thermodynamic force attributed to concentration gradient |
| Class 6 | Diffusion : Statistical view, ion channel | Fick's second law of diffusion |
| Class 7 | Experimental chemical kinetics of a chemical reaction(1): Experimental method, Reaction rate, rate equation | Introduction of reaction rates |
| Class 8 | Experimental chemical kinetics of a chemical reaction(2): Integrated rate equation, relaxation, temperature-dependent reaction rate | Integrated rate equation, Relaxation method, temperature dependence |
| Class 9 | Interpretation of rate quation(1): Elementary reaction, consecutive elementary reaction, rate-determining step | Elementary reaction, consecutive elementary reaction |
| Class 10 | Interpretation of rate equation(2): Steady-state approximation, unimolecular reaction | Lindemann-Hinshelwood mechanism |
| Class 11 | Complex reacion rate: Chain reaction and Enzyme reaction | Rice-Herzfeld mechanism and Michaelis-Menten mechanism |
| Class 12 | Molecular reaction dynamics(1): Collisional theory | Collisional theory |
| Class 13 | Molecular reaction dynamics(2): Transition state theory | Transition state theory |
| Class 14 | Molecular reaction dynamics(3): Dynamics of Molecular Collisions | Dynamics of Molecular Collisions |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
Hideaki Chihara, Nobuo Nakamura, Atkins Physical Chemistry, TokyoKagakuDojin
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Keith J. Laidler, Reaction kinetics I, in Japanese, Sangyo-tosho, Tominaga Keii, Reaction kinetics, Tokyokagakudojin
Evaluation methods and criteria
Students will be assessed on their understanding of molecular motion, diffusion equation, reaction rate equation, molecular reacion dynamics, and their ability to apply them to solve problems. The student's course scores are based on final exams (80%) and exercises (20%).
Related courses
- MAT.C311 ： Kinetics of Defect and Diffusion in Solid
- MAT.C316 ： Biomaterials Science
- MAT.C315 ： Fundamentals of Single Crystal and Thin Film Processing
- MAT.C206 ： Ceramic Processing
Prerequisites
No prerequisites