Explores catalyst characterization methods, including gas adsorption, spectroscopy, and N2 physisorption, highlighting the importance of in situ/operando approaches for understanding catalyst behavior.
Covers the basics of optical tweezers and their applications in microscopy, manipulation, and spectroscopy, as well as the alignment of molecules using laser pulses.
Explores phonon frequencies, heat capacity, thermal properties, vibrations in solids, free electron gas, Fermi function, and density functional theory.