Topics requested for admission to the doctoral study at NC

Nuclear chemistry

1. Motivation for the doctoral studies; Characteristics of the Diploma Thesis; Links between the fundamental and applied research 

2. Stoichiometry of chemical reactions; Shell-structure of the atom; Types of chemical bonds in compounds; Redox reactions; Ground and excited states

3. States of matter and their description; Laws of Thermodynamics; Thermochemistry; Chemical equilibria; Kinetics of chemical reactions; Electrochemical processes

4. Chemistry of alkali and alkaline earth metals; Metals, metalloids and transition elements and their compounds; Non-metals, halogens, and noble gases; Lanthanoids and actinoids; Coordination compounds

5. Chemistry of aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons; Heterocyclic and natural compounds; Reactions of organic compounds and methods of their studies

6. Analytical methods – gravimetric and volumetric analyses, conductometry, potentiometry, titrimetry, spectroscopic methods

7. Fundamentals of nuclear sciences – atomic nucleus, isotopes, ways and kinetics of nuclear transformations