INORGANIC CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS I AND LABORATORY

Detailed Course Content

• Inorganic Chemistry of Materials I and Laboratory

  Course syllabus: Deposition techniques of thin films through chemical (chemical vapor deposition and metal-organic CVD, atomic layer deposition, chemical beam epitaxy, sol-gel) or physical processes (molecular beam epitaxy). Syntheses of nanostructures through vapour phase and solution approaches: effects of process parameters and the use of hard and soft templates. Materials/properties relationship for particular crystalline structures. Perovskite based materials and conduction properties: superconductors, dielectrics and ferroelectrics. Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs): electrodes and oxide and proton based conduction electrolytes. Characterization techniques in the fabrication of materials. X-ray diffraction (XRD) of powders, oriented and epitaxial films: phase identification, domain size, rocking curves and pole figures. Electron microscopies: principles and applications of SEM and base concepts of TEM. Energy dispersive X-ray analyses and wavelength dispersive X-ray analyses.

• Laboratory

  Laboratory experiments: Experiments carried out: 1) syntheses of precursors: Ba(hfa)₂diglyme, Ag(hfa)tetraglyme, Ni(tta)₂tmeda, Eu(tta)₃phen; Characterization of physico-chemical properties of synthesized precursors (m.p., FT-IR and UV-Vis spectra; thermogravimetric analyses); 2) Fabrication of NiO and BaF₂ films through MOCVD; 3) Silver nanostructured films through a solution route; 4) Growth of Eu based luminescent microcrystals; 5) Morphological (SEM) and compositional (EDX) characterization of synthesized materials; 6) Structural characterization through XRD of synthesized materials.

Textbook Information

• Inorganic Chemistry of Materials I and Laboratory

  1) A. R. West “Basic Solid State Chemistry and its Applications” Wiley, 2012; 2) B. D. Fahlman “Materials Chemistry” Springer, 2008; 3) L. V. Interrante e M. J. Hampden-Smith Chemistry of Advanced Materials Wiley-VCH, 1998. Lecture handouts.

• Laboratory

  1) A. R. West “Basic Solid State Chemistry and its Applications” Wiley, 2012; 2) B. D. Fahlman “Materials Chemistry” Springer, 2008; 3) L. V. Interrante e M. J. Hampden-Smith Chemistry of Advanced Materials Wiley-VCH, 1998. Lecture handouts.