Physical chemistry of polymeric materials

MSE-431

Assessment: consists of 2 parts: Paper Presentatio...

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Assessment:  consists of 2 parts: Paper Presentations in class (10 points) and Literature Study (30 points)

PART I: Paper Presentation
Register you on a date in the google sheet (course presentation SS 2025) and give your chosen paper, you will find it in the general part.
It is required to send by e-mail (to eva.klok@epfl.ch) your slides (preferred as ppt) and the link of the paper at least the day before your presentation until the end of the afternoon.

1.Select an article, with a focus on polymer characterization, processing or properties (i.e. not synthesis !), that you find interesting from the journals

  Macromolecules (https://pubs.acs.org/journal/mamobx ) and

  ACS Applied Polymer Materials (https://pubs.acs.org/journal/aapmcd ),

        which has been published January 1, 2025 or more recent.

2.Everyone will present their paper in form of a 10 min presentation (4 – 5 ppt slides max) during the exercise session of the class (a detailed schedule will be made available in due course).
3.The PowerPoint presentation should be structured as follows, and cover the following elements:
1)Slide 1: copy and paste the first page of  the paper
2)Slide 2: explain why you have selected this paper.
3)Slide 2: What is the technological / scientific problem or hypothesis that the authors of this study have tried to address ?
4)Slide 3: What are the polymer(s) that have been investigated in this paper?
5)Slide 4: What are the scientific methods / characterization techniques that this paper uses (just mentioning the names, without detailed explanation)?

 PART II:  Literature study (details see course 1): submission date: 08.06.2025 at 23h59

In the folder "Literature Study-PDF of Papers" you will find the papers from 10.03.2025 on. I kindly ask everyone of you to select a paper that you will study by yourself.
The folder with the papers, the group to indicate your choice and the template for the report are available on Moodle.

The deadline of submission of the report of the literature study is 08.06.2025, 23h59 . Therefore, an assignment folder is available in the last week.

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