Unit CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF MATRIALS
- Course
- Sustainable materials and processes engineering
- Study-unit Code
- A004691
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Daniele Fioretto
- CFU
- 12
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2024
- Offered
- 2024/25
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa integrata
CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
Code | A004692 |
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CFU | 6 |
Teacher | Daniele Fioretto |
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Learning activities | Caratterizzante |
Area | Chimica e fisica della materia |
Academic discipline | FIS/03 |
Type of study-unit | Obbligatorio (Required) |
MATERIALS CHEMISTRY FOR TECHNOLOGIES
Code | A004695 |
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CFU | 6 |
Teacher | Giacomo Giorgi |
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Learning activities | Caratterizzante |
Area | Chimica e fisica della materia |
Academic discipline | CHIM/07 |
Type of study-unit | Obbligatorio (Required) |
Language of instruction | English |
Contents | Crystals & Symmetry. Experimental tools for investigating materials. Theoretical tools for investigating materials. Quantum mechanical tools Overview of Materials Chemistry concepts. Metals , Semiconductors , & Insulators Applications of some classes of materials of interest to technologies (PV, renewables) |
Reference texts | Teacher Slides for further analysis: 1) Materials Chemistry Bradley D Fahlman 3rd edition Springer or alternatively 2) Introduction to Materials Chemistry Harry R.Allcock 2nd edition Wiley |
Educational objectives | Fundamentals of Materials Chemistry and their applicability technological devices (experimetal and theoretical tools) |
Prerequisites | Knowledge of the fundaments of General & Inorganic Chemistry and of Physics Periodic Table properties |
Teaching methods | Frontal lessons + numerical practice |
Other information | Exam sessions in the following periods: Dec. 2024; Jan-Feb 2025 (Apr 2025); May-Jun-Jul-Sept 2025. Exact dates in the department website |
Learning verification modality | ~30 mins oral exam to verify the student knowledge level and understanding of the contents of the course. |
Extended program | Definition of Materials Chemistry; Materials Synthesis: «bottom-up» vs «top-down»; Materials Sustainability; Amorphous vs. Crystalline Solids; Bonding in solids; Band Theory; Laue (XRD); Lattice Translation Vectors; Space Lattice & Primitive Cell; Basic Crystalline Structures; Representative Crystalline Structures; Polymorphism & Polytypism; Crystal Symmetry; Miller Indices; Real vs Reciprocal Space; Brillouin Zone; Cases of Study: Metal Oxides Lattices; Defects & Impurities; Frenkel vs Schottky defects; Color & Crystals; Ceramics; Cements; Porous Materials; Materials for Energy Storage; Metals and Mining; Powder Metallurgy; Phase Behaviour of Fe-C Alloys; Steels; Magnetism; The Many-Body Problem; Denisty Functional Theory in a Nutshell; Semiconductors; Materials for PV; Materials for (photo)catalysis |