ram seshadri: winter 2015, Materials 218/Chemistry 227
Course outline and key references): PDF
Place and time: Engr. 1335, M & W, 2:00 pm to 3:15 pm.
Office hours: After class or by appointment.
Resources:
International Tables for Crystallography Volume A: Space-group symmetry
Printable (PDF) periodic table from NIST with electronic configurations. You so need this !Interactive periodic table with effective ionic radii (Shannon-Prewitt).
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 mineral crystal structures. The cif files that can be downloaded are directly read by VESTA.
A demo version of the principal database of Inorganic Crystal Structures is available at FIZ Inorganic Crystal Structure Database
Plane group sketcher (requires Java): "escher"
Gorgeous wikipedia page on Wallpaper (2D) groups.
CRC Handbook of Physics and Chemistry online (useful physical and chemical data including solid state properties). CRC Online
PDF file of bond valence parameters including the exponential bond valence relationship, and the source cif file: CIF from CCP14
2014 is the 100-year anniversary of Max von Laue's Nobel Prize for diffraction. Nature Magazine has created PDF poster to commemorate the event.
Class schedule:
| Date | Subject |
|---|---|
| M 1/5 | Materials under pressure pptx |
| W 1/7 | Classification, glasses, quasicrystals, etc. | Handout | Lekkerkerker | Zachariasen | Duwez | Makay | Schecthman | Jannsen | Tsai |
| M 1/12 | Symmetry and crystallography | Handout 2 | Handout 3 | faujasite.vesta | faujasite.png | IUCr-Symmetry | 2D Plane Groups | Assign. 1 |
| W 1/14 | Symmetry (contd.) + Structures 1 | Space Groups 1 | Space Groups 2 [please bring Space Groups to class] |
| W 1/21 | Structures 1 (contd.) | Structures 2 | Handout 4 | Oxide structures and BVS | Assign. 2 (due Wed, Jan 28th) |
| M 1/26 | Structures 1 and 2 (contd.) |
| W 1/28 | Structures 2 (contd.) | Structures 3 | Assign. 3 (due Wed, Feb 3rd) |
| M 2/2 | Structures 2 & Structures 3 (contd.) | Assign. 4 (Practice midterm, due Mon, Feb 9th) |
| W 2/4 | Cohesion 1 | Handout 5 |
| M 2/9 | In-class midterm |
| W 2/11 | Cohesion 1 | Cohesion 2 |
| W 2/18 | Cohesion 2 (contd.), crystal fields | Assign. 5 (Due Wednesday 25) |
| M 2/23 | Crystal fields | Cohesion 3 | d2 systems |
| W 2/25 | Magnetism | Assign. 6 (Due Wednesday 4) |
| M 3/2 | Class on crystal fields by Anna Lehner |
| M 3/4 | Magnetism (contd.) |
| M 3/9 | Polar materials |
| M 3/11 | Superconductivity 1 | Superconductivity 2 | R-P phases | |
| M 3/11 | Take-Home Final |
For material from previous quarters, please look at:
Spring 2003: Materials 286C
Fall 2003: Materials 225
Fall 2003: 100A
Winter 2004: Chemistry 173B
Winter 2004: Materials 218/Chemistry 277
Fall 2004: Materials100A
Winter 2005: Materials218/Chemistry 277
Spring 2005: Materials265
Fall 2005: Materials286G
Winter 2006: Materials 218/Chemistry 277
Spring 2006: Materials209BL
Winter 2007: Materials218/Chemistry 277
Spring 2007: Materials 265
Fall 2007: Materials 100A
Special stuff for 200B, 2008: Class on Soft Matter & Non-crystalline materials
Winter 2008: Materials 218/Chemistry 277
Spring 2008: Materials 286G
Fall 2008: Materials 265
Winter 2009: Materials 218/Chemistry 277
Spring 2009: Chemistry 2C
Winter 2010: Materials 218/Chemistry 277
Spring 2010: Materials 286G
Spring 2010: Ethics
Fall 2010: Materials 100A
Winter 2011: Materials 218/Chemistry 277
Spring 2011: Chemistry 279
Fall 2011: Materials 100A
Winter 2012: Materials 218/Chemistry 277
Spring 2012: Materials 286G
Winter 2013: Materials 218/Chemistry 277
Spring 2013: Chemistry 2C
Fall 2013: Materials 100A
Winter 2014: Materials 218
Spring 2014: Materials 286G
Fall 2014: Materials 286K