Course Identification

• General and Physical Chemistry (~ Atkins)
• Basic Inorganic Chemistry
• Physics (~Berkeley 1,2,3)

1. Introduction

• Materials world, basic ideas of materials.

2. Bonding in solids

• Types of Bonding.
• Molecular and Extended Bonding.

3. Structural Chemistry of extended solids

• Packing arrangements; radii
• Coordination Polyhedra;
• Lattices, Pseudo-Lattices
• Crystal structures
• Basics of glasses

4. Defects in Materials. Thermodynamics and kinetics.

• Basic types of defects in crystals and society
• The equilibrium concentration of defects
• Atomic nature of diffusion
• Basics non-constitutional effects. Einstein equation

5. Thermal properties of solids.

• The thermal capacitance of crystals;
• The nature of thermal expansion;
• Example of negative thermal expansion;

6. Electrons in metals.

• Metallic bond; Drude model and its limitation;

7. Phase diagrams

• Definition of a phase; Basics of thermodynamic of phase transitions; The concept of a phase diagram; Binary diagrams. Lever rule of phase quantities; Types of binary diagrams, practical examples.

Upon successful completion of this course students should be able to:

1. Predict material properties based on its structure and composition

Recommended: W. D. Callister Fundamentals of materials science and engineering