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Nanostructures and Nanomaterials: Characterization and Properties

Nanostructures and Nanomaterials: Characterization and Properties. Instructors: Prof. Anandh Subramaniam and Prof. Kantesh Balani, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur. This course will provide an overview of nanostructures evincing their fascinating properties (mechanical, optical, electromagnetic, chemical, and biological) unseen otherwise. The hierarchical development from nano to macro length scale, and its adoption in nature (biomimicking) will also be discussed. Understanding the change in crystal structure and defects therein as one goes from bulk to nano length scale will be utilized to construct structure-mechanism-property-performance maps. Thermodynamics resulting from the size effects at nano-length scales will also be considered. Structural, phase, microstructural and mechanical characterization techniques will be dealt in detail. (from nptel.ac.in)

Overview of Nanostructures and Nanomaterials


Introduction of Nanomaterials
Lecture 01 - Overview of Nanostructures and Nanomaterials
Lecture 02 - Monolithic Materials and Hybrids, The Scale of the Microstructure
Lecture 03 - Details of Defect Structure and Classification of Defects in Materials
Lecture 04 - Concepts related to Defects in Crystals: Defect in a Defect, Association of Defects
Lecture 05 - Importance of Residual Stress on Properties
Lecture 06 - Example on Traversing across Length Scales, Introduction to Nano-terminology
Lecture 07 - Introduction to Nano-terminology (cont.), What is Nano in Nano?
Lecture 08 - Dimensionality of a System, What is New about Nano?
Lecture 09 - From Nano to Micro the Hierarchical Development, Why nano?
Lecture 10 - Solved Example: Surface Area of Nanocrystals on Reduction of Size
Surface Effects and Physical Properties of Nanomaterials
Lecture 11 - Surface Energy, Surface Tension, Surface Stress, Equilibrium Shape of a Crystal
Lecture 12 - Clusters, Self-assembled Ordered Nanostructures and their Properties
Lecture 13 - Self-assembled Ordered Nanostructures and their Properties (cont.)
Lecture 14 - Curvature Effects in Nanocrystals (cont.), Precipitate Coarsening
Lecture 15 - Solid to Solid Transformation, Thermal Conductivity, Catalysis
Lecture 16 - Density and Elastic Properties: Composites, Polycrystals
Lecture 17 - Dislocations
Lecture 18 - Superplasticity, Creep, Testing of Nanostructures and Nanomaterials
Lecture 19 - Deformation of Nanomaterials (cont.) and Case Studies
Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties of Nanomaterials
Lecture 20 - Introduction to Electrical Properties
Lecture 21 - Introduction to Magnetism
Lecture 22 - Effect of External Magnetic Fields, Magnetism in Nanomaterials
Lecture 23 - Magnetism of Clusters, Magnetism in Thin Films and Hybrids
Lecture 24 - Overview of Optical Properties, Origin of Colour
Lecture 25 - Optical Properties of Nanomaterials, Properties of Core-shell Nanostructures
Atomic Bonding, Nanostructures and Nanomaterials, Nanomanufacturing
Lecture 26 - Atomic Bonding
Lecture 27 - Overview of Nanostructures and Nanomaterials
Lecture 28 - Carbon Nanostructures
Lecture 29 - Multi-Scale Hierarchy
Lecture 30 - Self Assembly
Lecture 31 - Nanomaterials in Nature: Bone
Lecture 32 - Surfaces and Interfaces
Lecture 33 - Non-Wetting
Lecture 34 - Nanomaterials Science and Nanomanufacturing
Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) Technique, Microscopic and Spectroscopic Techniques
Lecture 35 - Surface Adsorption Isotherms (Langmuir/Bet)
Lecture 36 - Reciprocal Lattice
Lecture 37 - Transmission Electron Microscopy
Lecture 38 - Transmission Electron Microscopy (cont.)
Lecture 39 - Auger Electron Spectroscopy
Lecture 40 - X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS)
Lecture 41 - Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy (EELS)
Deformation Behavior of Nanomaterials, Fracture and Creep, Nanotribology
Lecture 42 - Deformation Behavior of Nanomaterials
Lecture 43 - Fracture and Creep
Lecture 44 - Nanomechanics
Lecture 45 - Nanotribology

References
Nanostructures and Nanomaterials: Characterization and Properties
Instructors: Prof. Anandh Subramaniam and Prof. Kantesh Balani, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur. This course will provide an overview of nanostructures evincing their fascinating properties.