SUBJECT

Title

New Chemical Methods in Material Science A

Type of instruction

lecture

Level

Master

Part of degree program
Credits

2

Recommended in

Semester 3

Typically offered in

Autumn semester

Course description

Preparation of precursors: organic, inorganic, and metalorganic starting materials(special gases; metals, alloys; covalent and ionic hydrides; metal halogenides, -oxides, -sulfides; -alkoxides, -carboxilates; metal complexes; precursors of ceramics);New preparation routes of amorphous systems, sol-gel technique(chemical processes of sol-gel method: hydrolysis, condensation, drying gel systems, heat treatment, advantages and disadvantages of sol-gel methods, industrial applications); Polymer gels, chemical and structural modifying methods(physical and chemical properties of polymers, functional polymers, polymer based nanostructures, nanohybrides); Non-conventional materilas and theirs properties:medical, biotechnological and automatic technical applications (artificial muscles, drug delivery systems), electrostrictive, magnetostrictive and piezoelectric materials, electroreological, magnetoreological and magnetic liquids, shape-memory metals and polymers).

Readings

Compulsory:

  • Brinker, C. J.; Scherer, G. W. Sol-gel Science; Academic Press: Boston

  • R. W. Cahn: The coming of materials science, Pergamon, Amsterdam

  • W. D. Callister: Materials Science and Engineering, An Introduction, Wiley

  • W.F. Smith: Principles of Materials Science and Engineering, McGraw-Hill Publ.

Suggested:

  • J. Frommer, R.M. Overney, Interfacial Properties on the Submicrometer Scale, Am. Chem. Soc., Washington, 2000