Electrochemistry
Ion-solvent interactions, ion-ion interactions, models for the electrical double layer, kinetics of electrode reactions, electrotechnology.
Molecular spectroscopy
Rotational spectroscopy of linear polyatomic molecules, vibrational spectroscopy, vibrational-rotational spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy; rotational and vibrational Raman spectra.
Photochemistry
Excitation sources, selection rules of electronic excitation, (Jablonski diagram), singlet and triplet states, fluorescence and phorphorescence, intersystem crossing, radiative and non radiative decays, chemiluminescence, quantum yields, G-values, lifetimes, quenching, Stern-Volmer plots, photochemistry of carbonyl compounds, olefins and aromatic compounds.
Surface & colloid chemistry
Adsorption at liquid/gas, solid/gas interfaces, Gibbs, Langmuir and BET adsorption isotherms and their applications, determination of heats of adsorption using isosteric, calorimetric and desorption energy methods and surface analytical techniques, Colloid systems.
Computational chemistry
Quantum mechanical methods for treating molecules, basis sets, Hartree-Fock calculations, ab-initio calculation of molecular properties, Basics of molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations.