CH 838

Materials Chemistry
Syllabus: 

Introduction to Materials Chemistry, Materials specific characterisation techniques: XPS, EELS/EDX, Light and Electron Microscopy, Optical spectroscopies, WAXD, PXRD, Small Angle PXRD, AFM, etc.

Semiconductor (Electronic Materials) Chemistry, Semiconductor Devices, Thermoelectrics, Superconductors, Topological Insulators, Emerging Materials, Carbon Based Materials, Optical/Opto-electronic Materials, Light Emitting Diodes. Energy Materials, Batteries, Photovoltaics, High specific surface area materials, Materials for Carbon capture and sequestration, Amorphous Materials, Smart & Responsive Materials, Bio-inspired materials, Soft Materials, Soft Hybrid Materials and their usage in robotics, Semi-crystalline polymeric materials, 3D printing of materials from polymers to metals.

Applications of inorganic polymers such as polyphosphazenes, polysiloxanes, and Polysilanes.

Text References: 

1. B. D. Fahlman, Ed, Materials Chemistry, Elsevier, 2018.

2. J. I. Gersten and F. W. Smith, The Physics and Chemistry of Materials, Wiley, 2001.

3. K. J. Klabunde, Ed, Nanoscale Materials in Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, 2001.

4. M. Shahinpoor and H.-J. Schneider, Eds, Intelligent Materials, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2008.

5. I. W. Hamley, Introduction to Soft Matter: Synthetic and Biological Self-Assembling Materials, Wiley, 2007.

6. H. Koshima, Ed, Mechanically Responsive Materials for Soft Robotics,  Wiley, 2019.

7. J. E. Mark, H. R. Allcock and R. West, Inorganic polymers, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 1992.

8. V. Chandrasekhar, Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers, Springer, Berlin, 2005.