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Reaction Engineering and Molecular Electronics

Course Books:

Main text book:
Atkins 8ed, cover

Scott Fogler, "Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering", 4ed, Prentice Hall 2006

Link to the book online resource: http://www.engin.umich.edu/~cre/

 

Supplementary reading

 

 

Schedule of Reaction Engineering Lectures

  Date Title Lecturer Pages Exercises
Lectures 1 9-Sep-2010, 12:30

Mole balance and design equations for batch and continuous mode reactors

 LG Fogler Ch.1-2

P2-7, P2-5, P2-6 (see also
http://www.engin.umich.edu/~cre/web_mod/hippo/index.htm
Lecture 2 16-Sep-2010, 12:30

Rate laws in the reactor design

Example 3.6 Polymath

LG Fogler, Ch.3

P3-15, P3-7, P3-13
Lecture 3 23-Sep-2010, 12:30

Isothermal reactor design. Damkoler number. Microreactors.

LG

Fogler, Ch.4
p.143-207

P4-19, P4-26

Lecture 4 24-Sep-2010 8:30

Isothermal reactor design (cont.): Membrane reactors and unsteady state in tank reactors.
Analysis of rate data

LG Fogler, Ch.4
p.207-230
Ch.5

 
Lecture 5 30-Sep-2010, 12:30

Non-isothermal reactors.

LG Fogler Ch.8: p.472-507  
Lecture 6 1-Oct-2010, 8:30 Comsol modelling of reactions and reactors. Tubular reactor. Surface reaction. LG    
Lectures 7-9 7-Oct-2010, 12:30 See Eva's page for detailed information
http://homes.nano.aau.dk/ep/NB1/ReactionEng/		 EP    
Lecture 10 21-Oct-2010, 12:30

Modelling of bioreactors.

LG Fogler Ch.7 P.8-2n (Example 8-12).
Lectures 11 22-Oct-2010, 8:30 Comsol: modelling of the reactions on surface etc. LG    

Molecular Electronics

  Date Title Additional reading Research papers to present Presenter
Lecture 1 4-Nov-2010, 12:30

Molecular electronics architectures. Basic transport phenomena on nanoscale. Coulomb blockade.

 "Molecular electronics" from "Nanoelectronics and IT" ed. R.Waser

D.Porath et al, "Direct measurements of electrical transport in DNA", Nature, 2000

 

 Thea
Kawai et al, "Self-Organized Interconnect Method for Molecular Devices" JACS 2006
Supplementary material. 		Katrine
Lecture 2 5-Nov-2010,
8:30		 Molecular building blocks. Electronic structure of a molecule. Huckel model. STM in molecular electronics
 

N.Tao et al, "Measurement of Current-Induced Local Heating in a Single Molecule Junction", Nanoletters, 2006

 Gunnstein
Friesbie et al, " Distance dependence of Electron Tunneling trough Self-Assembled Monolayers Measured by Conducting Probe AFM", J.Phys Chem B, 2002 Karsten
Lecture 3 5-Nov-2010, 12:30

Aviram-Ratner concept. Functional molecular electronics: rectification and memory

 

R.S. Williams et al, "Nanoscale molecular-switch crossbar circuits", Nanotechnology, 2003

Carl Esben
K.von Klitzing et al, "Organic Quantum Wells: Molecular rectification and Single-electron tunneling"  
Lecture 4 11-Nov-2010, 12:30

Major experimental techniques in molecular electronics. Break junctions and nanopores. Molecular architectures.

C. Schonenberger et al, "Molecular junctions based on aromatic coupling", Nature Nanotechnology, 2008

Christian
P.McEuen et al, "Nanomechanical oscillations in a single C60 transistor", Nature, 2000 Michael
F.Moresco and A.Gourdon, Scanning tunneling microscopy experiments on single molecular landers, PNAS 2005  
Lecture 5 12-Nov-2010, 8:30

DNA in molecular electronics.

  D. Porath "Direct measurement of electrical transport through single DNA molecules of complex sequence", PNAS 2005 Zeinab
T. Kawai et al, "Electrostatic force microscopy: imaging of DNA and protein polarization one by one" Jonas
D. Porath et al, Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of Single DNA Molecules, ACS Nano 2009 Mikkel

 

 

 

Please contact me if you have any questions: lg@nano.aau.dk

 


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