As the characteristic specialty in Henan province, Applied Chemistry is an engineering-based with the cross-link of science,interdisciplinary subject related to chemical engineering, material,environmental protection,etc, aimed at cultivating the advanced analysis technical talents engaged in quality inspection and management, and the related test method research.During the 4-year educational system,it develops students’ ability to master the theoretical and experimental skills of the modern analysis methods, to analyze the structure and composition of raw materials, products, semi-products and by-products, and to choose and design the correct detection and evaluation method, according to the detected objects and requirements. The graduates would take up occupations in such fields as chemical industry, light industry, food, tobacco, medicine, petroleum, environmental protection, energy, metallurgy, building materials, inspection and examination and other industries, engaged in the testing and analysis, quality control, applied research, technology development and management work.While they can also serve in the colleges or research institutes to do teaching and research work.
Courses offered in this program are as follows:
Fundamental of Material Science
Fundamental of Materials Science, a major course of applied chemistry, mainly introduces the relationship between composition and structure, synthesis and processing, property and performance of materials, in order to make students master the basic theories of materials. Combined with the specialty of Applied Chemistry, the main content of this course is crystal structure and the corresponding defects, solidification and phase diagrams, diffusion in solids, solid-state reaction, solid phase transformation, sintering process of inorganic materials, to lay solid foundations for the follow-up courses and in material industry.
Separation and Purification
Separation and purification is a professional course for applied chemistry. It focuses on sample pretreatment, separation and enrichment. Through its learning, students can get a better understanding on development of modern separation and enrichment techniques. Using other learning knowledge, it can train student’s practical ability and innovation ability. It can further improve student’s comprehensive quality. It mainly deals with precipitation separation, distillation and volatilization, solvent extraction, chromatograph analysis, ion exchange, electrophoretic separation, flotation separation, membrane separation technique. It offers a basis to cultivate high level and comprehensive talents.
Analytical chemistry
Analytical chemistry is described as the area of chemistry responsible for characterizing the composition，structure, and physical properties of matter, both qualitatively (what is present) and quantitatively (how much is present). Analytical Chemistry majors learning error and analysis of data processing, titration studies, acid-base titration, complexation titration, oxidation–reduction titration, precipitation titration and weight analysis. Experiments involve in analysis of balance theory, performance and use. Titration analysis includes acid-base titration, complexometric titration, redox titration, and precipitation titration.
Industrial Analysis
Industrial analysis is an important professional course of applied chemistry. It is a comprehensive and highly specialized curriculum, aiming at whole industrial production including resource exploitation and utilization, raw material choice and process, process control, products quality detection, three types wastes treatment, environmental monitoring and so on. This plan is to meet fast development of industrial production and demand of people’s knowledge structure. It requires the college student to understand or grasp methods and principles in the fields such as data analysis and assessment, sampling and preparation, silicate analysis, mineral analysis, coal quality analysis, water quality analysis, iron and steel analysis, ammonia synthesis analysis, sulfuric acid manufacture analysis and air pollution analysis. It offers a good basis for student’s relevant practical work in the future.
Functional Materials and Sensors
The purpose of Functional Materials and Sensors as a professional course of Applied Chemistry is to make students understand the applications of functional materials in the fields of the detection and control process, environmental monitoring, safety production and human health. This course focuses on the electrical, optical, thermal, chemical and biological properties of sensing materials from the point of basic structure of materials. Moreover, this course mainly introduces the principles, structure and characteristics and applications of some typical sensors such as piezoelectric sensor, photoelectric sensor, pyroelectric sensor, gas sensor, humidity sensor and biosensor and so on.
Synthetic Chemistry
The course of synthetic chemistry is one of the important professional and technical courses of applied chemistry subjects. The main task of this course is to enable students to master the basic concepts and terms commonly used in synthetic chemistry, master some new synthetic reactions and methods, familiar with the design, strategies, techniques as well as optimization of synthetic route for some common compound. The main purpose of this course is to develop and enhance students' ability of solving practical synthesis problems using the comprehensive knowledge. This course can lay foundation for students to complete the following thesis and to work in the relative fields in applied chemistry system.
Chemical Technology
In this course of Chemical Technology, the basic principle of chemical process, the technological conditions, and even the relevant equipment would be introduced, based on natural resources as raw material to produce basic chemical raw materials. It has included inorganic chemical, organic chemical, biological chemical and so on, which purpose is to make students have a preliminary understanding of the history of chemical industry, the chemical raw materials change and development, and grasp the development trends of chemical industry. Through the learning of this course, the students should master the chemical principle, thermodynamics and dynamic characteristics, the application of catalyst and process design requirements of the typical chemical process, so that they can deeply comprehend the commonness and characteristics of typical process basic chemical industry, and have comprehensive analysis ability of the actual chemical process of industrialization.
Chemical Technology
In this course of Chemical Technology, the basic principle of chemical process, the technological conditions, and even the relevant equipment would be introduced, based on natural resources as raw material to produce basic chemical raw materials. It has included inorganic chemical, organic chemical, biological chemical and so on, which purpose is to make students have a preliminary understanding of the history of chemical industry, the chemical raw materials change and development, and grasp the development trends of chemical industry.
Through the learning of this course, the students should master the chemical principle, thermodynamics and dynamic characteristics, the application of catalyst and process design requirements of the typical chemical process, so that they can deeply comprehend the commonness and characteristics of typical process basic chemical industry, and have comprehensive analysis ability of the actual chemical process of industrialization.
Chemoinformatics
Chemoinformatics is a new branch of chemistry. It utilizes the mathematical, statistics, computer science, information science and other science to design chemistry and chemical experiments, to process, classify, analyze and forecast data and information. This course mainly introduces application of mathematical and statistical methods, which usually with the aid of the computer technology. It interprets how to design and select the optimal measurement procedures and experimental methods, and it also account how to obtain maximum information through the explanation of chemical data. Its main contents are experimental design and their applications, the introduction of frequently used chemometric methods and their applications.
Structural Chemistry
Structural chemistry is an elective fundamental course of applied chemistry subjects. The main task of this course is to enable students to grasp the method to research the structures of atom, molecules and crystals based on quantum mechanics, and then to study the relationship between the structure and properties of the material. The main content of this course includes the basis for quantum mechanics, the atomic structure, the structure and properties of diatomic molecules, the structural analysis methods and so on.
Modern Analytical Technique
Modern analytical technique is a professional and technical course of applied chemistry. The main task of this course is to elaborate the basic principles, structure, and characteristics of modern measurement instruments, and their applications in the composition analysis, structure characterization, and morphology observation of materials. This course mainly focuses on some new technologies such as thermodynamic analysis, nuclear magnetic resonance analysis, electron microscope analysis, x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy analysis, x-ray diffraction analysis, and so on. The aim of this course is to provide student with a basic understanding of how each type of spectrometry gives to spectra, and how this spectra can be used to determine the structure of organic molecules. This courseemphasizesobtaining an ability to use spectroscopic information in the identification organic compounds and to use hyphenated mass spectrometry methods in the qualitative and quantitative analysis of complex organic mixture.
Searching Scientific and Technical Literatures
Through the narration of general principles about searching literatures, this course leads the students can familiar with the features of different types of scientific literature. The main task of this course is how to through the network, the students can skilled in using Chemical Abstracts (CA), American Chemical Society (ACS), Web of Knowledge, Engineering Index, China CNKI, WanFang database and other chemical literatures. By learning of this course, the students should be skilled in searching different types of literature and characteristics of data, such as journals, books, patents, technical standards, thesis, etc. and the students should also be familiar with the influential journal in their professional fields.
Introduction to Nano-materials
This course is a specialty course of applied chemistry. The nanometer material science course is involving chemistry, physics, materials science, biology, electronics and other subject knowledge. Through the learning of this course, it can make the students master the basic theory of nano material, physical and chemical characteristics, preparation and surface modification, and characterization and nanometer measurement and nano technology's impact on other disciplines. Moreover, it can also make the students has a comprehensive understanding, and knowledge, cultivate the innovative ability to the frontier of the development of today’s science and technology. After that, the students should be improved on the comprehensive quality and expected to be cultivate high-level, comprehensive and creative for our country building foundation and ability of talents.
Introduction to the clean energy materials
This course is an elective course for applied chemistry and other related specialties. Its task is to expound the relationship between clean energy material and clean energy, synthesis and preparation of clean energy material and their application fields. It mainly focused on fuel cell materials, solar battery and lithium ion battery materials. Through learning of this course, students should understand the basic concept of clean energy materials and their application in a battery or energy industry, understand the importance of the clean production for energy industry and master the preparation methods of several kinds of important energy material.
Inorganic Materials Science
This course is a required specialized course about materials chemistry for the applied chemistry. Combining with the characteristics of specialty direction on material chemistry, this course mainly focuses on the composition of inorganic non-metallic materials such as glass, ceramics and the relationship between the four elements on the preparation process, organization structure, material properties and the use of performance to make the students master the skills about the glass, ceramics formula design, structural analysis, performance and preparation process, thus lay the foundation in the fields of inorganic non-metallic materials for the future work of scientific research, production and management.
Introduction to New Energy Material
New energy material is a specialized optional course for undergraduate students of applied chemistry. The goal of this course is to train the specialized personnel in the new energy materials, new energy device design and manufacturing technology, new energy and systems engineering, engaged in the research, design, application development, organizational management and construction work of the new energy material. In the training program, broadening specialty involves, pay attention to professional basic theory teaching, strengthening the combination of theory and practice, attach great importance to cultivate students’ self-study ability, enhance the development potential of students and self-arrange of choices, in order to meet the needs of different levels of professionals in the field of new energy materials.
Instrumental Analysis
Industrial analysis is a professional basic course for applied chemistry. Its task is to set forth fundamental, characteristic, application scope, instrumental structure and analysis procedure in optical analysis methods and electrical analysis methods. It acts as a good analytical tool in the fields of bioscience, material science and environmental science. It mainly deals with ultraviolet-visible spectrophotometer (UV-Vis), infrared absorption spectrum (IR), atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS), atomic emission spectroscopy (AES), potentiometric analysis and so on. Through its learning,students can get a better understanding on development of modern analytical techniques, relate to other learning knowledge, train practical ability and innovation ability. It can further improve student’s comprehensive quality. It offers a basis to cultivate high level and comprehensive talents.
Specialty English of Applied Chemistry
Specialty English of applied chemistry is an elective professional basic course of applied chemistry subjects. The main task of this course is to enable students to master the skills at writing common terms, abbreviations, and vocabulary of organic compound in chemical literature, master the translation skills of scientific literatures in chemistry, to be more skilled at reading and translation of the chemical literatures, and writing correct English abstracts, and to be proficient in English with the four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking.