Białystok, Poland

Applied Chemistry

Master's

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⇑Applied Chemistry at UwB

Language: English Studies in English

Subject area: physical science, environment

Kind of studies: full-time studies

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University website: uwb.edu.pl/en/

⇑Why study Applied Chemistry (Master's) at the University of Bialystok?

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Why study it:

Programme: advanced chemistry across several fields
Specialisation: two specialisations to choose from
Labs: hands-on laboratory work
After graduation: a master's thesis and professional skills

Applied Chemistry at the University of Bialystok is a two-year master's programme run by the Faculty of Chemistry and taught in English. It is for graduates who want to deepen their chemistry, work with modern instruments and choose between two specialisations: chemistry of materials or chemical analysis.

Programme: advanced chemistry across several fields

The core of the programme covers coordination and metalloorganic chemistry, advanced analytical chemistry and advanced organic chemistry, with laboratories on modern synthesis and on identifying compounds. You also study the physical side of advanced techniques, molecular spectroscopy (infrared, Raman, ultraviolet and NMR), and chromatography and electrophoresis, including coupled techniques. Two further subjects look at sustainable chemistry for the circular economy and at good laboratory practice, from standard procedures and quality control to accreditation and laboratory management systems.

Specialisation: two specialisations to choose from

Specialisations at a glance

Chemistry of materialsenergy storage materials, nanomaterials, polymers and conducting polymers, catalytic processes, structural chemistry and advanced methods of analysing materials
Chemical analysissampling and sample preparation, atomic spectrometry, process, toxicological and surface analysis, bioanalysis, ecoanalysis and environmental chemistry

Labs: hands-on laboratory work

Much of the learning happens in the laboratory, where you for example:

work with spectroscopic methods to identify organic and inorganic compounds;
carry out controlled polymerisation and characterise the polymers you obtain;
perform inorganic analyses with atomic absorption spectrometry and ICP-MS;
determine pollutants such as pesticide and drug residues in water, soil and plants using GC-MS and LC-MS/MS;
test modern water purification technologies by measuring water pollution indicators.

After graduation: a master's thesis and professional skills

In the diploma module you complete a master's thesis in the specialisation laboratory and the master's seminar: you collect literature, plan and perform experiments, and discuss your results against published data. Along the way you learn to work in a team, present specialised issues in English and follow the principles of entrepreneurship and of protecting intellectual property.

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Chemistry

Chemistry is the scientific discipline involved with compounds composed of atoms, i.e. elements, and molecules, i.e. combinations of atoms: their composition, structure, properties, behavior and the changes they undergo during a reaction with other compounds. Chemistry addresses topics such as how atoms and molecules interact via chemical bonds to form new chemical compounds. There are four types of chemical bonds: covalent bonds, in which compounds share one or more electron(s); ionic bonds, in which a compound donates one or more electrons to another compound to produce ions (cations and anions); hydrogen bonds; and Van der Waals force bonds.

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Chemistry

Just think of the differences today. A young person gets interested in chemistry and is given a chemical set. But it doesn't contain potassium cyanide. It doesn't even contain copper sulfate or anything else interesting because all the interesting chemicals are considered dangerous substances. Therefore, these budding young chemists don't get a chance to do anything engrossing with their chemistry sets. As I look back, I think it is pretty remarkable that Mr. Ziegler, this friend of the family, would have so easily turned over one-third of an ounce of potassium cyanide to me, an eleven-year-old boy.

Linus Pauling In His Own Words (1995) by Barbara Marinacci, p. 29

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Chemistry

I praise the chemical physicians, for they do not go about gorgeous in satins, silks, and velvets, silver daggers hanging at their sides, and white gloves on their hands, but they tend their work at the fire patiently day and night. They do not go promenading, but seek their recreation in laboratory. They thrust their fingers among the coals into dirt and rubbish and not into golden rings.

Paracelsus (in Jaffe, Bernard. Crucibles: The Story of Chemistry. 4th Edition. New York: Dover, 1976. (Originally, 1930) | Pgs. 13-24)

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Chemistry

We may, I believe, anticipate that the chemist of the future who is interested in the structure of proteins, nucleic acids, polysaccharides, and other complex substances with high molecular weight will come to rely upon a new structural chemistry, involving precise geometrical relationships among the atoms in the molecules and the rigorous application of the new structural principles, and that great progress will be made, through this technique, in the attack, by chemical methods, on the problems of biology and medicine.

Linus Pauling, Nobel Lecture (11 December 1954)

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