Prof. Dr-Ing. Lothar Wondraczek;Dr. Alexander Knebel; Dr Zhiwen Pan; Dr Franziska Scheffler

Written or oral exam on the contents dealt with in the lecture and seminar (70%)

Exercise Reports (30 %)

none

Will be recommended at the beginning of the module

English

733 MSc Chemistry of Materials: none

733 MSc Chemistry of Materials: none

733 MSc Chemistry of Materials: Module required to complete master’s thesis

733 MSc Chemistry of Materials: Compulsory module

Lecture (4 SWS), seminar (2 SWS), exercises (2 SWS)
(SWS stands for‚ hours per week per semester)

This module will introduce relations between thermodynamics, kinetics, structure and resulting physical properties of organic, inorganic and hybrid materials with a focus on the solid state. Starting from an overview of the technologically relevant classes of materials, students will learn to apply general principles of materials science and engineering to the design of advanced materials. Specifically, the introduction will cover (i) thermodynamics of the solid state, phase transitions, phase diagrams and non-equilibrium thermodynamics, (ii) principles of crystalline and amorphous structures and crystal chemistry, (iii) solid-state kinetics, and (iv) mechanical properties, corrosion and degradation of materials.

After successfully completing the module, students will know:

1) fundamental classes of materials: soft and hard materials, polymers and plastics, ceramics and glasses, metals, complex materials, hybrids and compounds, and can differentiate by states of bonding, topology and structural order

2) structural principles in materials science: ordered and disordered materials, bond localization, packing rules, structural dimensionality, structural hierarchy, material topology

3) solid-state thermodynamics: phase transitions, time-temperature-transformation diagrams, phase diagrams, non-equilibrium thermodynamics

4) structure-property correlations

Oral presentation of a selected topic in the seminar.