Green Chemistry and Nanochemistry — Class 12 Maharashtra HSC Chemistry revision notes
A 11-page visual revision sheet for Green Chemistry and Nanochemistry, written for Class 12 Maharashtra HSC Chemistry. Formulas, diagrams and the traps that cost marks, laid out to be read the night before rather than the term before. Free, and it opens inside CapCompass.
What this Green Chemistry and Nanochemistry sheet covers
- Green chemistry and sustainable development
- Atom economy
- percentage of reactant mass that ends up in the desired product
- Atom economy of an alcohol to alkyl bromide conversion
- Twelve principles of green chemistry, part 1
- Twelve principles of green chemistry, part 2
- The role of green chemistry
- Reading a green chemistry scenario
- Nanoscience, nanotechnology and the nanometre scale
- Zero, one and two dimensional nanostructures
- 0-D
- 1-D
- 2-D
- Colour and surface area at the nanoscale
- Surface area grows as a cube is subdivided
- one 1 m cube
- cut into 8 cubes of side 1/2 m
- cut into 27 cubes of side 1/3 m
- Catalytic, thermal, mechanical and electrical properties
- Synthesis: top-down vs bottom-up
- Top-down
- Bottom-up
- Sol-gel process
- hydrolysis of a metal alkoxide precursor
- polycondensation builds the oxide-bridged network (the gel)
- Characterisation techniques
- UV-visible spectroscopy
- XRD
- SEM
- TEM
- FTIR
- History: nanomaterials before nanoscience had a name
- Applications of nanomaterials
- Advantages vs disadvantages
- Advantages
- Disadvantages
- Symbols
- Traps that cost marks
- Tricks that save time
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