TEACHING
MS&E 304/584: Kinetics, Diffusion, and Phase Transformations
Introduction to electrochemistry, atomic motion, diffusion, and phase transformation. Applications and design involving nucleation and growth of new phases in vapors, liquids and solids; solidification, crystal growth, corrosion, recrystallization, gas-metal reactions, and thermomechanical processing to produce desired microstructures and properties. One third of the course involves examples of design and control of processes.
MS&E 433/533: Materials and Devices for Energy Production, Storage and Conversion
This course is concerned with materials and
technologies related to energy production, storage and conversion, as well as
to sensors used for monitoring the emission of pollutants. The devices to be
discussed will include solar cells, fuel cells, batteries and electrochemical
sensors. Thermodynamic, kinetic and electrochemical concepts and materials
properties critical for such devices will be the central part of this class.
MS&E 531: Introduction to Ceramics
Ceramic processes and products, crystal structures, structure of glasses, point defects (point defect chemistry and relation to non-stoichiometry), line defects, grain boundaries, diffusion in ionic materials (emphasis on the relationships between diffusion and point defect structure), phase diagrams, phase transformations, kinetics of solid state reactions (reactions with and between solids: heterogeneous reactions, reactions between different solids, point defect relaxation, internal reactions), grain growth and sintering. Physico-chemical aspects of the different topics are emphasized.
MS&E 631: Solid-State Reactions
This course covers the fundamentals of solid-state reactions involving crystalline ionic and/or metallic solids. The topics addressed are: point defects (thermal disorder, component-activity-dependent disorder, influence of dopants, associates, Coulomb interactions), dislocations and boundaries, transport in solids (different types of diffusion coefficients, reference frames, mechanisms of electrical conduction, elementary diffusion mechanisms, atomic theory of transport, correlation effects, phenomenological theory, Fick's laws), point-defect relaxation, interdiffusion, solid-state reactions involving compound formation (oxidation of metals, reactions between solids), demixing of materials in potential gradients, and other solid-state processes.
MS&E 632: Solid-State Electrochemistry
Disorder in solids; thermodynamic quantities or quasi-free electrons and electron defects in semiconductors; mobility, diffusion, and partial conductivity of ions and electrons; solid ionic conductors, solid electrolytes and solid solution electrodes; galvanic cells with solid electrolytes for thermodynamic investigations; technical applications of solid electrolytes. At the level of ”Electrochemistry of Solids” by H. Rickert.
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