Inorganic Materials - Synthesis and Characterization Part 1

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

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

• know how to interpret a binary diagram in order 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;
• knowing how to recognize major transformations:

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

without diffusion: allotropic transformation, martensitic

Students enrolled in this module must have previously completed the following courses:

L2 Chemistry, L2 Computer Science, or equivalent level

Final exam

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