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Advanced inorganic materials
2 creditsThermodynamics and phase equilibria
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Advanced inorganic materials
Level of study
BAC +4
ECTS
2 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
The HAC720C module deals, in 5 main parts, with "advanced inorganic materials". The1st part is dedicated to the generalities of inorganic materials and approaches the structure-properties relations; a particular attention is brought to the chemical bond, the real crystal, and the polycrystalline solid; the various classes of inorganic materials are described. The 2nd part deals with ceramic materials (definitions and properties) and their synthesis (raw materials including clays, shaping, drying and debinding, sintering); a distinction is made between traditional ceramics and technical ceramics (synthesis routes for oxide and non-oxide ceramics). The3rd part concerns glasses (classification and synthesis routes) and glass-ceramics (devitrification and soft chemistry); their properties and applications are also discussed. The4th part is dedicated to metals: properties of metals and metallic alloys; metallic nanoparticles; and, catalytic materials. The 5th part is dedicated to inorganic materials developed for energy; ceramics (oxides and non-oxides; nanostructured) and metal hydrides are described (properties and syntheses) through several examples and in the context of their applications (accumulators, hydrogen storage and carbon dioxide capture)
Hourly volumes* :
CM : 13h
TD : 7h
Thermodynamics and phase equilibria
Level of study
BAC +4
ECTS
2 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
- Reminder of thermodynamics of single component systems.
- Basic notions of thermodynamics of multicomponent systems. Chemical potential, Gibbs-Duhem relation, variance.
- Knowledge of thermal analysis techniques that allow the construction of binary/ternary diagrams: TGA, DTA and DSC
- Construction and interpretation of binary phase diagrams from thermodynamic quantities. Diagrams of Gibbs free enthalpy, pressure and temperature as a function of the composition of the binary mixture. Liquid-liquid, liquid-vapor, solid-liquid mixtures.
- Phase transformation: first and second order transitions, critical points. Examples.
- The supercritical state: definition, thermodynamic properties, most extensive industrial applications.
- Construction and interpretation of ternary phase diagrams: variance, definitions of ternary eutectic, first and second order peritectic, isothermal section, study of cooling of alloys.
Hourly volumes* :
CM :13
TD :7