Inorganic Materials - Synthesis and Characterization Part 1

A first part of the module will consist of presenting metals and alloys through crystallography (from the "ideal" crystalline solid to defects and solid solutions), then a second part will be devoted to their characterization by X-ray diffraction and the last part will address their synthesis through their solid/liquid binary diagram (description and construction) and the different transformations in the solid state.

On the phase diagrams section, the objectives will be to enable students to :

• know how to interpret a binary diagram to determine the conditions for obtaining the desired phases or, conversely, to avoid the formation of undesirable phases and anticipate the properties and stability of materials;
• recognize major transformations :

by diffusion: eutectic, peritectic, eutectoid, peritectoid ...

without diffusion: allotropic, martensitic transformation

Students enrolled in this module must have previously taken the :

L2 Chemistry, L2 PC or equivalent level

Final examination

General information on metals, metal alloys, L/S phase equilibrium diagrams, solid-state transformations, characterizations.