Fundamentals of Nanoscience detailed syllabus for Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the MSE students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Materials Science & Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit MSE 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-II scheme and its subjects refer to MSE Professional Elective-II syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of fundamentals of nanoscience is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
INTRODUCTION TO NANOMATERIALS 9
Amorphous, Crystalline, microcrystalline, quasicrystalline and nanocrystalline materials- historical development of nanomaterials – Nanomaterials classification (Gleiter’s Classification) – properly changes done to size effects, Hall – Petch, inverse Hall- Petch effects – polymeric nanostructures
Unit II
ZERO DIMENSIONAL NANOMATERIALS 9
Nanoparticles – Properties – Processing – Liquid state processing – Sol-gel process, wet chemical synthesis – Vapour state processing – PVD, CVD, Aerosol processing, solid state processing -mechanical, mechanochemical synthesis – Application of nanoparticle.
Quailing Dots – Quantum confinement – Pauli Exclusion Principle – Processing – Optical lithography -MOCVD – Droplet epitaxy – Applications.
Unit III
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Unit IV
SUPER HARD COATINGS AND BULK NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS 9
Superhard coating – types – characteristics – thermal stability – case studies (nc-TiN/a-Si3N4 coating) -Applications.
Buck nanostructure formation – Equal Channel angular pressing(ECAP) – High pressure torsion(HPT), Accumulative roll bending – Reciprocating extrusion – compression, cyclic close die forging – Repetitive corrugation and straightening – Grain refinement mechanisms.
Unit V
CHARACTERIZATION OF NANOMATERIALS 9
Nano indentation – Types of nanoindenter – Force actuation-Displacement measurement- factors affecting nanoindentation- Different models for calculation of E and hardness- Atomic force microscope (AFM) cantilever dynamics-Electrostatic force mode (EFM) – Magnetic force mode (MFM)
Course Outcomes:
Upon Completion of the course, the students will be able to
- Explain the categories of nanomaterials and the effects due to which the properties changes
- Describe the processes employed for processing zero dimensional nanomaterials and employ them in engineering applications
- Select processes that can fabricate one dimensional nanomaterials
- Prepare two dimensional nanomaterials and bulk nanostructures
- Analyse the nanoindentation and AFM Data
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- Bamberg, D., Grundman, M. and Ledentsov, N.N., “Quantum Dot Heterostructures”, Wiley, 1999.
- Charles P. Poole Jr., Frank J. Ownes, ‘Introduction to Nanotechnology”, Wiley Interscience, 2003.
- G Timp (ed), “Nanotechnology”, AIP press/Springer, 1999.
- G. Wilde, “Nanostructured Materials’, Elsevier, 2008.
- Mark Ratner and Daniel Ratner, “Nano Technology”, Pearson Education, New Delhi, 2003.
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