Meeting 2: Voting and ranking on the chemical concepts to focus on
Communication via email and whatsapp

1) Electronegativity (Proposed by Jacob & Pratyum)

•  What is electronegativity?
• Different type of chemical structures
  • Tetrahedral etc
• How electronegativity helps to explain why molecules adopt certain structures?
• Why is it important to know electronegativity?
• How it contributes to the society?
• Batteries/Microbial fuel cells

2) Dissolution/solvation (Proposed by JieHui & Shantanu)

• General introduction on the different types of solvent – Is there such a thing that is known as a universal solvent
•  How do things dissolve in solvent eg water?
• Different type of interactions
• Simulation of phospholipid in water and how they become micelle
• Why is it important to know about it?
  • The importance of detergent to clean used plate
  •  Drug design

•  Does it mean that whatever pollutant that can dissolve would have lesser impact on the environment?
  • Oil spill = cannot dissolve in sea
  • Pollution related to heavy metals

3) Water treatment (Proposed by Haikal & Jeremy)

• Introduction on water treatment
• Why do we treat the water
  • Heavy metal contamination
  • Water borne diseases
• How water treatment is done?
  • Filtration
  • Chemical treatment etc
• Why do we still need to reintroduce mineral into the water?
  • Effect of ultra-pure water

Voting results

Finalized outline

• ​General introduction on the different types of solvent
  • Is there universal solvent
• ​Factors that affects dissolution ​
  • Different type of interactions​
•  How do things dissolve in solvent eg water?
  • Simulation of phospholipid in water and how they become micelle?
•  Why is it important to know about it?
  • The importance of detergent to clean used plates?
  • Drug design
• How dissolution affects the way the pollutants causes harm to the environment?
  • Oil Spill
  • Toxic metals
  • Red tide