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Physical Chemistry
Physical chemistry is one of the three key disciplines in chemistry and sits with its interdisciplinary character between chemistry and physics. It deals with questions that go beyond the classic areas of activity in chemistry and physics, the properties of materials with particles of all sizes and their conversion on the most diverse timescales being described with the aid of theoretical and experimental methods in physical chemistry. Physical chemistry thus provides knowledge which is used as a theoretical basis for technical chemistry and process engineering and is a permanent feature for the understanding and description of many other disciplines.
At the forefront of physical chemistry is the description and research of physical phenomena occurring in chemical processes as well as the investigation of physical laws underlying the investigated chemical processes, as was their application to technical problems.
The key aspects of physical chemistry are areas of activity in which physical and mathematical methods are needed for the solution of chemical questions and quantitative information is required concerning properties and states of materials, material conversions and reactions. Thermodynamics, the kinetics of chemical reactions and spectroscopy in all their facets are classic areas of activity in physical chemistry.
