SOLID STATE CHEMISTRY PART A
- Overview
- Assessment methods
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- Full programme
- Bibliography
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- General and inorganic chemistry basic and advanced knowledge.
- Physics and mathematics basic knowledge.
- Robust background in the fields of structural chemistry and X-Ray diffraction theory.
- Basic knowledge of the techniques and instrumentation for performing X-Ray powder diffraction experiments.
1) Oral presentation on a subject chosen by the student and related to the arguments of the lectures (% of the final grade: 40%).
2) Oral test, based on about 3 questions related to the course program (% of the final grade: 50%).
3) Evaluation of the report on the practical exercises written by the student, in terms of critical interpretation of the results obtained (% of the final grade: 10%).
The main goal of the course is presenting methodological and structural aspects for the characterization of ionic and molecular solids, mostly, but not only, of inorganic nature.
-Chistal Chemistry
- Structural defects in crystals and nanocrystals
- Main properties of solid state materials
-Polymorphism
- Crystal Chemistry: close packing of spheres; interstitial cavities; hcp, fcc and bcc solids; polytypism of crystal structures; coordination polyhedra; reference inorganic structure (halite, sphalerite, fluorite-antifluorite, diamond, wurtzite, CsCl, AX2 and A2X compounds); oxides with AmBnOp structure (perovskites and spinels); silica and silicates classification.
- Structural defects, non-stoichiometric solids and solid solutions: intrinsic points defects (Schottky, Frenkel), extrinsic point defects, color centers; non-stoichiometric compounds; solid solutions; Vegard Law and other methods for the characterization of the solid solutions. Exended defects: shear planes, intergrowths, stacking faults, antiphase domains, dislocations.
- Electronic, magnetic and optical properties of solid materials.
- Polymorphism: concept development and nomenclature; technological relevance; structural origin; thermodynamic description of monotropic and enantiotropic polymorphs; examples.
Suggested textbooks:
“Crystallography and Crystal Chemistry” di F. Donald Bloss. Mineralogical Society of America.
“Polymorphism in Molecular Crystals” di Joel Bernstein. Oxford Science Publications.
“Fundamentals of Crystallography", di C. Giacovazzo, H.L. Monaco, G. Artioli, D. Viterbo, G. Ferraris, G. Gilli, G. Zanotti, M. Catti. Oxford University Press.
“Fundamentals of Crystallography", by C. Giacovazzo, H.L. Monaco, G. Artioli, D. Viterbo, G. Ferraris, G.Gilli, G. Zanotti, M. Catti. Oxford University Press.
“Crystallography for health and biosciences”, by A. Guagliardi and N. Masciocchi, Insubria University Press.
Materials (slides, book chapters) provided during the course.
Part A + Part B of the course: 54 hours of classroom lectures and 10 hours of practical exercises on the applications of total scattering methods to the structural and microstructural characterization of nanocrystalline materials.
For any information, contact by e-mail: federica.bertolotti@uninsubria.it