Courses Detail Information
MSE3500J – Structure of Materials
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Credits: 4 credits
Pre-requisites: CHEM2090J/CHEM2100J & MSE2500J/ME3820J
Description:
This course teaches basic principles of materials science and engineering, including bonding, structure, defects, and how they are described and how they are determined experimentally.
Course Topics:
The properties of materials are intimately linked to the structures of materials. This course touches on the basic principles of materials science engineering, laying out the foundation for understanding and characterizing materials structures. We take a bottom-up approach, starting with interatomic bonds in materials. This is followed by a detailed description of crystal structure (crystallography), which deals with the essential topics of unit cells, crystal systems, and symmetry in crystallography. Next, we discuss diffraction techniques, particularly X-ray diffraction, for the probing of crystal structures. We finally move to soft matter materials and cover topics such as liquid crystals, surfactants, polymers, colloidal materials, and soft biological materials.