Course code:
574H2
Course name:
Non-destructive Chemical Analysis - Selected Chapters

Academic year:

2024/2025.

Attendance requirements:

There are no requirements.

ECTS:

10

Study level:

doctoral academic studies

Study programs:

Chemistry: 1. year, winter semester, elective (E71H2) course

Chemistry: 1. year, winter semester, elective (E72H2) course

Chemistry: 2. year, winter semester, elective (E74H2) course

Chemistry: 2. year, winter semester, elective (E73H2) course

Teacher:

Konstantin B. Ilijeviæ, Ph.D.
assistant professor, Faculty of Chemistry, Studentski trg 12-16, Beograd

Assistants:

Hours of instruction:

Weekly: five hours of lectures + three hours of study research work

Goals:

Introducing doctoral students to the latest instrumental methods for non-destructive chemical analysis, primarily with the kind of devices that are commercially manufactured today. Particular attention is paid to the distinction between physical (not mechanical) and chemical characterization. An additional objective of the course is to look at the difference between corpuscular and wave excitation, as well as the facts of what a particular method can and cannot provide as a relevant result required for a scientific-research or professional work. The candidates will familiarize themselves with laboratories using laboratory equipment for non-destructive chemical analysis in our country.

Outcome:

Doctoral students are well versed in non-destructive methods of chemical analysis and their possibilities, that is, impossibilities. The student has the competencies to make the right choice for a particular method or set of methods that can provide the relevant results required for his scientific-research or professional work. The student is able to critically analyze the results obtained. The student is able to promote new approaches to work in a professional setting or educational setting.

Teaching methods:

Lectures, semester papers, oral exam.

Extracurricular activities:

Coursebooks:

Main coursebooks:

  1. Scoog, Hooler, Neiman: Principles of Instrumental Analysis, 5. ed, Saunders, Philadelphia, 1998. (850 pp) ISBN 0-03-002078-6
  2. Jenkins: An Introduction to X-Ray Spectrometry, Wiley, Chichester, 1986. (163pp) ISBN 0-471-25826-1
  3. Gržetić: Elektronska spektrometrija za hemijsku analizu (ESCA) u: M. Kurepa (urednik): Elektron - sto godina od otkrića: Elektron u čvrstim telima i primena elektrona, SANU, 1997. (243-298) ISBN 86-17-05592-8

Supplementary coursebooks:

  1. Ivan Gržetić, Konstantin Ilijević, Jovana Orlić: Guide for WDXRF quantitative standardless analysis, NETCHEM projekat i Hemijski fakultet UB, 2018.
  2. Ivan Gržetić, Konstantin Ilijević, Jovana Orlić: Guide for WDXRF analysis using Oxsas software, NETCHEM projekat i Hemijski fakultet UB, 2018.

Additional material:

http://www.chem.bg.ac.rs/~grzetic/predavanja/Nedestruktivna%20hemijska%20analiza%20-%20odabrana%20poglavlja/

  Course activities and grading method

Lectures:

20 points (5 hours a week)

Syllabus:

  1. Non-destructive versus destructive methods.
  2. Review of destructive methods.
  3. Review of non-destructive methods.
  4. Types and sample preparation for nondestructive analysis.
  5. Corpuscular and wave excitation.
  6. Methods for material characterization.
  7. SEM, TEM.
  8. AFM, XRD.
  9. XPS (ESCA), Auger.
  10. Methods for qualitative and quantitative analysis.
  11. X-ray methods: XRF (TDS, EDS).
  12. Coupled SEM-TDS, SEM-EDS methods.
  13. SIMS, PIXE.
  14. Gamma spectrometric methods: NAA.
  15. How to choose the "right" method.

Semester papers:

20 points

Oral exam:

60 points

Study research work:

0 points (3 hours a week)