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This course covers the fundamental and theory of catalysis, characterization, and reactivity of nanoscale catalysts. The course is gathering homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis. The selectivity and efficiency for a broad variety of organic synthesis to hydrocarbon reforming and environmental problems are discussed. The course also deals with nanoparticles catalysis, emphasizing the key role of nano-materials supports. The course concerns specific metals (such as Pd, Ru,Ag,Pt, Ir and Au). Special attention is devoted for Au and Pd nano-particles catalyst for a variety of oxidation reactions.

Faculty : Institute of Basic and Applied Sciences

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The course provides a computational chemistry course and applications in chemistry and related fields. Special attention on basic mathematics and the use of respective software tools are included. The course em-phasizes the four computational criteria for modeling any system, name-ly stability, symmetry, quantization, and homogeneity. The topics of the Symmetry and Point Groups, computational techniques with different levels of accuracy, and the basic principles of quantum mechanics will be presented. Different types of basis sets, semi-empirical methods, density functional theory, reduced density matrix and its applications in molecular modeling are reviewed. Finally, the course includes the mod-ern trends in research connected with computational chemistry and contains an introduction to computational tools such as Microsoft Excel, MATLAB, etc.

Faculty : Institute of Basic and Applied Sciences

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One of the quickly growing areas is the supramolecular materials and their application in medicine. This area of research exploits the novel physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of nanostructured ma-terials for pharmaceutical and medical treatments. This course will in-troduce students to the main principles of constructing nanomaterials for use in disease diagnosis, drug delivery, tissue engineering and im-aging. The course will make emphases on three major topics. These topics are: 1) inorganic nanostructures for disease diagnosis and imag-ing (e.g., nanoparticles of gold and silver, quantum dots, carbon nano-tubes…,etc.), 2) nanocarriers for drug delivery that are formed through soft matter assembly (e.g., surfactants, lipids, block copolymers, DNA, polyelectrolytes, peptides…,etc.), and 3) supramolecular scaffolds for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

Faculty : Institute of Basic and Applied Sciences

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This course will review selected topics of current interest in Nanosci-ences such as molecular self-assembly phenomena, emerging hybrid material, molecular materials, sensors, optoelectronic materials, thin film single and multilayered material structures, nanoscale materials charac-terization, modeling, analysis, etc.

Faculty : Institute of Basic and Applied Sciences

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This course includes a series of research seminars based on self-learning and presentations of new advanced topics related to the stu-dents' Thesis subject. The seminars will be presented by the Ph.D. stu-dents and invited specialists in different advanced research topics in the fields of specialization. The student's evaluation will be based on his/her understanding of the presented topics and presentations skills.