New Inorganic Materials

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Course objectives

- Acquiring knowledge of modern inorganic materials with a description of the technology preparation and opportunities to apply
- To train students for the preparation and evaluation of properties of individual
modern inorganic materials

Course enrolment requirements and entry competences required for the course

Learning outcomes expected at the level of the course (4 to 10 learning outcomes)

After passing the exam, the student is expected to know:
- Define and differentiate types of modern inorganic materials
- Introduction of new technology for preparing inorganic materials
- Characterized nanostructured materials and their use in the new process
technologies
- Conclude on the importance of the synthesis of new inorganic materials in modern society
- Independent synthesis and evaluation of some new properties of inorganic materials

Course content broken down in detail by weekly class schedule (syllabus)

Week 1: Introduction, course content, basic definitions, the importance of research material, sustainable technologies and environmental impact
Week 2: Metallic glasses, properties, methods of characterization, methods of preparation, the importance and applications
Week 3: Glass-ceramics, properties, methods of characterization, methods of preparation, the importance and applications
Week 4: Superconducting materials, historical overview of the discovery, properties and characterization, Meissner effect, Josephson effect
Week 5: Superconducting materials, the type I and type II, the application of new technologies based on superconducting materials, application examples
Week 6: Based on nanotechnology, historical development and achievements, a review of major nanostructured materials
Week 7: Written examination - I Colloquium
Week 8: Sol-gel technology, a historical overview of the development, the basic
concepts, processes the sol-gel methods, operation sequence to obtain silicate glasses
Week 9: Sol-gel technology, processes for forming thin films, getting of powder with application
Week 10: Sol-gel technology, obtaining of inorganic membranes with nanopore and
active catalytic properties, practical examples applied inorganic membrane
Week 11: CVD and PECVD technology preparation of nanostructured materials
Week 12: Optical fibers and photosensitive inorganic materials, properties, methods preparation and application
Week 13: Bioceramics, basic concepts, types, properties, methods of obtaining and application
Week 14: Inorganic polymers, basic concepts, types, properties, methods of obtaining and application
Week 15: Written examination - II. colloquium
Laboratory exercises:
Exercise 1 Preparation of silica sol-gel process
Exercise 2 Electrochemical method for preparing colloidal silver
Exercise 3 Synthesis of colloidal silver by chemical precipitation
Exercise 4 Preparation of stable suspensions of nanoparticles of iron oxide – ferrofluid from aqueous solution
Exercise 5 Preparation of photovoltaic cells based on titanium nanocristallic oxide
Exercise 6 The synthesis of zeolite A hydrothermally

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