Solid state chemistry and energy applications
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Welcome!!
Content:
1. Fundamentals of Solids: Classification of solid structures, crystal systems, their synthesis, and the structure and bonding of solid materials
2.
Characterization of solid Materials: Neturon and X-ray diffraction and spectroscopy, thermal analysis, adsorption, etc.
3. Applications of Solid Materials: CO2 capture, Hydrogen/Methane Storage, Batteries, Solar cells, Catalysis, etc.
Reference Books: These are not required for the course, but if you need extra reading they can help.
Objectives:
To learn the fundamentals of solid materials, including their structures, properties, and applications in energy.
Basic Solid State Chemistry, Second Edition, Anthony R. West (John Wiley & Sons, 1999)
Reactions and Characterization of Solids, Sandra E. Dann (John Wiley & Sons, 2002)
Solid State Chemistry and its Applications, 2nd Edition, Student Edition (John Wiley & Sons, 2014); the link is below.
Professor: Wendy L. Queen
Teaching Assistants:
Pattarphon "Paul" Rodlamul
email: pattarphon.rodlamul@epfl.ch
Grading: The course grade will consist of one group presentation and an oral exam to be done individually. These two tasks will account for 25% and 75% of your final grade, respectively.
Exam Schedule: The exam for this course is oral. So, the exam schedule is undetermined.
February 17-21
- Week 1 (Text and media area)
- Week 1 typed notes (File)
- Week 1 powerpoint (File)
- Week 1 Lecture video (URL)
February 24-28
- Week 2 (Text and media area)
- Week 2 notes (File)
- Week 2 powerpoint (File)
- Week 2 lecture video (URL)
March 3-7
March 10-14
March 17-21
- Week 5 (Text and media area)
- Hand written notes Week 5 (File)
- Week 5 notes (File)
- Week 5 ppt (File)
- Week 5_Video 1_Rocksalt structure - The end of the video shows the problem we went over related to TiO and NiO conductivity (File)
- Week 5 lecture video - Radius Ratio, Miller Indices, and Projected views Please note, we did not cover projected views this week. (URL)
- Week 6 (Text and media area)
- Typed Notes Week 6 (File)
- Week 6 PPT (File)
- Week 6 Video_Projected Views (File)
- Week 6 Video Solid state synthesis part I (File)
- Week 6 Video Solid state synthesis part II (URL)
- Week 7 (Text and media area)
- Week 7 VIdeo I finalize synthesis (URL)
- Week 7 Video II Start characterization (URL)
- Week 7 Notes (File)
- Week 8 (Text and media area)
- Week 8 Notes (File)
- Powerpoint Week 8 (File)
- week 8 lecture video (URL)
- Easter Break, no class (Text and media area)
- Week 10 (Text and media area)
- week 10 lecture video Intro to MOFs (URL)
- week 10 lecture video MOF Applications (URL)