I. Objectives

1. Comprehend solid fundamental and specialist knowledge relevant to inorganic chemistry (070301), analytical chemistry (070302), organic chemistry (070303), physical chemistry (070304), and polymer chemistry & physics (070305);

2. Familiarize  the  research  progress  and  development  potentials  of  the  present  discipline;

3. Grasp the advanced modern experimental and analytical methods in chemistry;

4. Have the talents of specializing in scientific research work independently, and can be qualified for working in university and research institute.

 

II. Research Orientations

1. Inorganic Chemistry (070301)

(1) Functional Coordination Chemistry

Research on this topic is focused on design, synthesis, and assembly of new-type coordination compounds that possess optical, electrical, magnetic, superconducting, and/or information storage properties, to explore the relationships between the architecture and property.

(2) Inorganic Materials Chemistry

Inorganic materials chemistry involves design, preparation, and assembly of micro- and/or mesoporous functional materials and hybrid inorganic/organic nanomaterials.

(3) Bioinorganic Chemistry

Bioinorganic chemistry is focused on tunable mechanisms and interactions between metal ions and bio-macromolecules such as amino acids, proteins, nuclear acids, and enzymes etc., to pave the way for designing catalysts with enhanced activity and high selectivity in mild conditions.

(4) Nanomaterials Chemistry

Research on this topic involves controllable synthesis of inorganic nanomaterials and inorganic/organic composite nanomaterials for potential applications in the fields of organic synthesis, catalysis, sensors, solar cells, and lithium ion batteries.

2. Analytical Chemistry (070302)

(1) Microfluidic Analysis & Chromatographic Separation

Research on this topic involves design and application of microfluidic chips, gas chromatography, liquid chromatography, capillary electrophoresis, and hyphenated chromatographic techniques.

(2) Biochemical Sensors & Electrochemical Analysis

This topic involves chemical sensors, biosensors, microarray chips, and electrochemical analysis to explore their applications in energy and environmental science, materials, and life science.

(3) Environment & Bioanalytical Chemistry

This topic deals with newly detectable methods for life matters and environmental pollutants.

3. Organic Chemistry (070303)

(1) Organic Synthesis

Organic synthesis is focused on design of new reaction and synthesis of new agents, to construct the relationship between molecular conformation and property.

(2) Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Pharmaceutical chemistry is focused on design and synthesis of new-type pharmaceutical molecules and drug intermediates.

(3) Organic Functional Materials

This topic involves synthesis and characterization of organic compounds with optical, electrical, and magnetic properties.

(4) Natural Compounds Chemistry

Natural compounds chemistry involves isolation, modification, and determination of the active components derived from living organisms such as plants, animals, halobios, and microorganisms.

4. Physical Chemistry (070304)

(1) Ecological physical Chemistry

Ecological physical chemistry is focused on physicochemical behavior, ecological effect, and variation rule between chemical substances and ecological system.

(2) Colloids & Interface Chemistry

Research on this topic involves colloids dispersion, emulsion system, as well as orderly assembly of amphiphilic molecules, surfactants, and silicates in solution. The amphiphilic molecules and surfactant molecules can form micro-reactors and soft templates in solution, through which to construct molecule films and to prepare nanomaterials with special architecture.

(3) Catalytic Chemistry

Catalytic chemistry deals with preparation of new-type catalysts, catalytic reaction mechanism, and evaluation of the catalysts.

(4) Materials Physicochemistry & Calculation Chemistry

Research on this topic involves theoretical calculations and experimental synthesis of materials, to construct the relationship between architecture and property in the micro- and macroscale.

5. Polymer Chemistry & Physics (070305)

(1) Polymer Synthesis

Polymer synthesis deals with design of synthetic method, synthesis of monomer and polymer, modification of polymer, and degradation mechanism of polymer.

(2) Polymer Structure and Performance

Research on this topic is focused on determine the relationship between architecture and performance with modern physical and analytical techniques.

(3) Natural Biopolymer Science

Natural biopolymer science involves modification, characterization, and biomimetic of natural macromolecules, to explore their application in biomedicine.

(4) Functional Organosilicon Polymers

This topic deals with synthesis of new-type organosilicon polymers including silicon resin, silicon rubber, silane coupling agent, organosilicon additive, organosilicon surfactant, and hydrophilic organosilicon macromolecule, to construct the relationship between architecture and performance.

(5) Functional Coordination Polymer

This topic involves design and synthesis of functional coordination polymers with nonlinear optical properties or ferroelectric.

(6) Polymer Structure Regulation & Self-assembly

This topic deals with self-assembly of polymer in solution, chirality transformation at interface, and preparation of composite nanofilms with antireflection.

III. Educational System and Duration

    The normative time for M.S. is 3 years and the maximum time is 5 years, including not less than 2 years of study at school and no less than 1 year of dissertation research (from starting thesis proposal to finishing paper defending).

IV. Credit and Curriculum

    Postgraduate course divided into degree and non-degree courses. Degree courses are divided into common required course, specialized course and frontier seminar. Common required course every 18 to 32 hours meter 1 credit, specialized course every 16 hours meter 1 credit, experimental classes every 32 hours meter 1 credit. The total credits required are 31.

V. Mid-term Screening

Mid-term screening should be carried out for summarizing the study achievement since the postgraduate entrance evaluation; discovering and solving the problems in the process of cultivation, making the graduate smoothly entered the stage of essay writing, ensuring the quality of postgraduate cultivation. The mid-term screening should be completed before the twelfth weeks in the third semester and should be implemented under the specific regulations according to the master's degree candidate screening measures of Qilu University of Technology.  .

VI. Thesis   

Thesis writing, as an important part of the graduate program, demonstrates students’ ability to do scientific research and hands-on work. M.S. candidates should complete thesis independently under the direction of their supervisors. The thesis should adequately reflect that the graduate student has met all the requirements set in the graduate program. Thesis research work time (from starting thesis proposal to finishing paper defending) shall not be less than one year. The detailed requirements are in the “The Provisions for Master Candidates to Apply Academic Degree of Qilu University of Technology (Third Edition)”.

VII. Other links

Teaching Practice or Research Practice or Social Practice

Choose one from teaching practice, research and practice, social practice.

Teaching Practice

Teaching practice is to train graduates’ teaching ability which is an important part of the work. The college students for teaching practice must participate in the first line teaching (including as assistant secondary school teachers, answering questions, correcting homework, to guide experiments and thesis, etc) , the workload should be equivalent to at least 16 school hours which is generally arranged in the first and second school year. After the practice, students are required to write at least 1500 words of practice summary, fill out the "Qilu University of Technology" by instructors and college where after examination at Graduate Department approval.

Research Practice

College graduate or postgraduate tutor research practice, not less than three weeks, the general arrangement is the first and second academic year; research practice must be independent with dissertations. After the practice, students must write a summary report of the practice of not less than 3,000 words , and fill out the " Qilu university of Technology postgraduate research practice evaluation form" , after the instructors and college where the audit report at the Graduate approval.

Social Practice

Social practice refers to a part-time management positions in schools, the specific requirements separately.

2. Academic Activities

Academic activities include two aspects: graduate seminars or to listen to an academic report about domestic frontier of the discipline or related disciplines. Academic activities should run through the whole process of graduate students, one must do lectures at least two times during school, listen to academic reports at least 10 times. Graduate should truthfully fill out the "graduate academic activities assessment form", where the instructor after college examination by a certain way, to graduate at the approval.

 

VIII. Research Requirements

Prior to application for thesis defense, graduate students are required to complete at least one of the following findings:

1. A paper of the graduate student should be published (at least accepted) by a magazine collected by SCI or EI, and the graduate student should be the first author (or the mentor as the first author, and the graduate student as the second). The unit of the first author and the student be signed by Qilu University of Technology, and the content of the paper must be related to the dissertation.

2. As the main researchers (top three) get more than one scientific/technological awards with the level of no less than bureau level, and the award certificate shall prevail.

3.As the main researchers (top two) get at least one authorized invention patent and the content of the patent must be related to the dissertation.

IX. Teaching (Training) Calendar

 

X. Credit and Curriculum