# Postgraduate study
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# Advanced Functional Materials MSc
## Surface Chemistry: Structure and Reactivity 4M CHEM5058
- **Academic Session:** 2025-26
- **School:** School of Chemistry
- **Credits:** 10
- **Level:** Level 5 (SCQF level 11)
- **Typically Offered:** Runs Throughout Semesters 1 and 2
- **Available to Visiting Students:** Yes
- **Collaborative Online International Learning:** No
- **Curriculum For Life:** No
### Short Description
This course will introduce the fundamental principles of surface chemistry and spectroscopy with an emphasis on nanoscale materials and catalysis.
### Timetable
18 hours of lectures and 2 hours of tutorials to be arranged
### Excluded Courses
None
### Co-requisites
None
### Assessment
90 minute written examination
**Main Assessment In:** April/May
### Course Aims
To provide students with a critical insight and understanding of surface chemistry for catalysis and surface spectroscopy for examining materials on the nanoscale.
### Intended Learning Outcomes of Course
By the end of this course students will be able to:
1. Recognise the significance of economic and industrial factors in modern heterogeneous catalysis.
2. Describe the connections and constraints on chemisorption and catalysis by metals, structure/activity relationships, and methods to elucidate mechanisms.
3. Explain the fundamental principles of optical and X-ray based spectroscopic techniques in characterising surface structure.
4. Describe the principles of reduced dimensionality and the effect on physio/chemical properties of materials.
### Minimum Requirement for Award of Credits
Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.
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- [Programme overview](https://www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/advanced-functional-materials/)
- [CHEM5058 reading list](https://glasgow.rl.talis.com/courses/chem5058.html)