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Molecular Kinetics and Catalysis

Course 0000000855 in SS 2018

General Data

Course Type lecture
Semester Weekly Hours 3 SWS
Organisational Unit TUM Department of Chemistry
Lecturers Karsten Reuter
Christoph Scheurer
Dates

Assignment to Modules

This course is not assigned to any module.

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additional remarks 1. Mechanisms for prototypical catalytic processes 2. Bonding of adsorbates on surfaces 3. Deterministic kinetics 4. Probability theory and stochastic processes 5. Chemical kinetics, mean-field approximation and emergence of classical kinetics 6. Getting rate constants: From fitting to first-principles 7. Simulations techniques: Molecular dynamics and kinetic Monte Carlo 8. Analyzing reaction mechanisms: Rate determining steps and sensitivity analysis 9. Ab initio thermodynamics 10. Electrocatalysis 11. Towards computational catalyst design
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