Winter 2010: Materials 218/Chemistry 277, Introduction to Inorganc Materials
Course outline: PDF
Phelps 1417, T & R, 12:30 pm to 1:45 pm: Office hours following class or by appointment
Resources:
Printable (PDF) periodic table from NIST with electronic configurations. You so need this !The VESTA Crystal Structure drawing package (and more): Download and install from here. This program works on all platforms. It is required for assignments.
Database of some crystal structures to be found here. The cif files that can be downloaded are directly read by VESTA.
A demo version of the principal database of Inorganic Crystal Structure is available at FIZ Inorganic Crystal Structure Database
Space groups and symmetry information: Birbeck College SG diagrams and tables and cctbx symmetry information, SgInfo gateway and the Bilbao Crystallographic Server
Plane group sketcher (requires Java): "escher"
CRC Handbook of Physics and Chemistry online (useful physical and chemical data including solid state properties). CCRC Online
PDF file of bond valence parameters including the exponential bond valence relationship, and the source cif file: CIF from CCP14
Schedule:
| Date | Description | Resources |
|---|---|---|
| T 1/5 | Spin ice pyrochlores and Dirac monopoles | doi + doi + pdf + doi + doi + doi |
| R 1/7 | Classification, glasses, quasicrystals, etc. + handouts | doi + doi + doi + doi + doi |
| T 1/12 | Symmetry + handouts | PDF + PDF + faujasite.jpg + faujasite.vesta |
| R 1/14 | Symmetry (continued) | Assignment |
| T 1/19 | Structures 1 + handouts | |
| W 1/20 | Special class on diffraction, 5:00 pm, MRL 2053 | |
| R 1/21 | Structures 2 + handouts | Assignment (due Thu 28) |
| T 1/26 | Class on boron (Professor Barbara Albert) | |
| R 1/28 | Structures 3 | Assignment (due Thu Feb 4) + Os-Al VESTA |
| T 2/2 | Structures (continued) | |
| R 2/4 | Cohesion + harcopies | Assignment (due Thu Feb 11) |
| T 2/9 | In-class midterm | |
| R 2/11 | Cohesion (continued) | |
| T 2/16 | Cohesion 2 | |
| R 2/18 | Cohesion 3 + hardcopies | Assignment (due Thu Feb 25) |
| T 2/23 | Magnetism 1 + hardcopies + MoS2 and TiO | |
| R 2/25 | Magnetism, continued | |
| T 3/2 | Polar Materials + hardcopies | Assignment (due Thu March 11) |
| Some C60 papers: doi, doi, doi | ||
| R 3/5 | Polar Materials (contd.) | |
| R 3/11 | Superconductivity and CMR | Final (take-home) due March 18 |
