Course contents
The first part deals with the microscopic aspects of the basical properties of metals. In particular, the role of crystal structure, microstructure and defect chemistry in determining the mechanical proerties will be discussed. Then, the microscopic mechanisms of the main industrial processes for metal treatment, as cold working, annealing and secondary phase precipitation will be illustrated. Finally examples of application in the context of metallic systems of considerable technological interest will be presented.
The second part of the course deals with ceramic materials, discussing first the stability conditions
starting from the free energy - composition curves at different temperatures. Then, a
review of the structures of main interest to ceramic materials (spinel, perovskite, rutile, garnet,
pyrochlore, fluorite, zircon and related structures) will be rewieved , with particular emphasis on the distinction between short and long range order. Disordered compounds are then treated mainly with regard to the techniques
for advanced structural investigation, ending with a discussion of the local structure of amorphous ceramics.
Reccomended or required readings
Slides of the lecture are availble to the students, as well as
references to review papers from the scientific literature
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