Fundamentals of Nanoscience detailed syllabus for Mechanical & Automation Engineering (MAE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the MAE 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 Mechanical & Automation Engineering 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit MAE 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-VII scheme and its subjects refer to MAE Professional Elective-VII 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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