Year 2: Fall Semester (S9, September - January)

• COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY / MOLECULAR SIMULATION

Numerical simulation is a science that strengthens the theoretical and experimental approaches. In chemistry, these methods are an important tool for the study, at a microscopic level, of systems ranging from the isolated molecule to liquids, solutions, polymers, materials, biological system, etc.  The purpose of this course is to provide an overview of the concepts behind this scientific approach and present capabilities and limitations of the various methods of molecular simulation. This course should allow all students in chemistry to become familiar with molecular simulation and better understand the microscopic basics by atomic description of the interactions of a set of particles, the physical and chemical properties of the material.

https://formations.u-bordeaux.fr/#/details-formation?type=enseignement&id=14933

• KINETICS & STATISTICAL THERMODYNAMICS 2

Kinetics: this lecture brings together the issues of kinetics, its theoretical foundations and experimental approaches.

Statistical Thermodynamics: this lecture introduces concepts and methods of statistical thermodynamics for non­uniform or time­ de­pendent systems. 

https://formations.u-bordeaux.fr/#/details-formation?type=enseignement&id=14825

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• PHOTONICS, LASERS AND IMAGING

This course deals with the Photonics field based on spectroscopic characterization of objects, molecules and materials with optical properties. It introduces the laser as a source but also as a tool for creating or modifying these properties. The notion of imagery is exposed through micro-Raman, nano-Raman characterization or micro-luminescence for mapping these objects.

https://formations.u-bordeaux.fr/#/details-formation?type=enseignement&id=14195

• ELECTIVE (1/5): LARGE SCALE FACILITIES

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This course aims to introduce the contributions of large scale instruments (X synchrotron and neutron source), both at a fundamental and more applied level in the study of the structural and dynamic properties of the materials. This course teaching will give students a certain basis for Ph.D work using this kind of large instrument.

https://formations.u-bordeaux.fr/#/details-formation?type=enseignement&id=14226

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• ELECTIVE (2/5): DIELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC PROPERTIES

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This lecture aims to teach the basics on the dielectric and magnetic properties of inorganic and molecular materials. The purpose is to be able to describe, for a known structure material, the dielectric and magnetic properties and to know how to analyze them with the appropriate model.

https://formations.u-bordeaux.fr/#/details-formation?type=enseignement&id=14207

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• ELECTIVE (3/5): HYBRID AND NANOMATERIALS

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General overview concerning the use of the Tools of molecular, macromolecular, sol-gel chemistries and physico-chemistry to elaborate nanomaterials, control the organization and the properties of self-assembled macromolecular structures and of organic/inorganic hybrid materials.​

https://formations.u-bordeaux.fr/#/details-formation?type=enseignement&id=14153

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• ELECTIVE (4/5): LABORATORY COURSE - Chemistry Lab

These courses are proposed by researchers from the Bordeaux Campus and aim at “hands-on” learning of a research topic in a research laboratory environment, which may be experimental (synthesis, characterization, shaping of optical materials), theoretical or numerical. Before the work begins, a syllabus of the work program is developed by the students in collaboration with a research group and has to be submitted to the pedagogical team of the Master for validation. A significant part has to be devoted to bibliography. A lab course may lead to an internship but is NOT a short internship. The student will follow PhD and postdoc subject to complete his work program. They will have to spend 24 or 48 hours dedicated to the discovery of technics, in the lab. The students have regular meetings with the researchers but are not hosted by their laboratory (visitors status). The evaluation is based on the basis of a short (10 pages) report formatted as a lecture or “Technique de l’ingénieur”) and oral session of questions (30 minutes) of the pedagogical team.

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• ELECTIVE (5/5): LABORATORY COURSE - Fabrication and characterization of photonics materials

This training takes place at state of the art plateforms of the Bordeaux Campus (Elorprintec: https://elorprinttec.u-bordeaux.fr/en, Placamat:https://www.placamat.cnrs.fr, and the Bordeaux Imaging Center: https://www.bic.u-bordeaux.fr/). General and practical lectures are given by researchers on synthesis and fabrication, characterization and chemical analysis techniques and data analysis. Then, pairs or trinomials of students with various backgrounds (physics, chemistry, biology) are given a project to explore micro-to nano scale objects with different optical funstions. The evaluation is based on a written report.