Online Course
Structure of Materials, Part 1: Fundamentals of Materials Structure
Massachusetts Institute of Technology via edX
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Overview
Part 1 begins with an introduction to amorphous materials. We explore glasses and polymers, learn about the factors that influence their structure, and learn how materials scientists measure and describe the structure of these materials. Then we begin a discussion of the crystalline state, exploring what it means for a material to be crystalline, how we describe periodic arrangement of atoms in a crystal, and how we can determine the structure of crystals through x-ray diffraction.
If you would like to explore the structure of materials further, we encourage you to enroll in Part 2 and Part 3 of the course.
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Syllabus
- Structure of materials roadmap
- States of matter and bonding
- Descriptors: concept and function
- Free volume
- Pair distribution function
- Glass processing methods
- Continuous network model
- Network modifiers
- Random walk model
- Chain-to-chain end distance
- Order and disorder in polymers
- Translational symmetry
- The crystalline state in 2D
- The crystalline state in 3D
- Miller indices
- Real space
- Reciprocal space
- Bragg’s Law
- Diffraction examples
Taught by
Silvija Gradečak
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