Material Science and Engineering detailed Syllabus for Nano Technology (Nano), 2018 scheme has been taken from the VTUs official website and presented for the VTU students. For Course Code, Subject Names, Teaching Department, Paper Setting Board, Theory Lectures, Tutorial, Practical/Drawing, Duration in Hours, CIE Marks, Total Marks, Credits and other information do visit full semester subjects post given below. The Syllabus PDF files can also be downloaded from the official website of the university.
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Course Learning Objectives:
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Module-1
INTRODUCTION TO MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING Functional Classification of Materials; Classification of Materials Based on Structure; Environmental and Other Effects; Materials Design and Selection; The Structure of Materials: Technological Relevance; The Structure of the Atom; The Electronic Structure of the Atom; The Periodic Table and Engineering materials; Atomic Bonding; Binding Energy and Inter-atomic Spacing; Amorphous Materials: Principles and Technological Applications; Lattice, unit cells, Basis, and crystal structure; Points, directions, and planes in the unit cell.
Module-2
CRYSTAL STRUCTURE Introduction, Differences between Crystalline solids and amorphous solids; Unit cell: Introduction, Miller Indices, high density planes and influence on the behavior of the crystal, Close packing (hexagonal, and cubic), Bravias lattices (in two and three dimensional space), Lattice systems: possible variations, edge lengths, axial angle, and examples; Crystallographic point groups and symmetry operations; Wigner-Seitz cell: Introduction, and construction; Atomic packing: packing fraction, Co-ordination number; Examples of simple crystal structures: NaCl, ZnS and diamond; Symmetry operations, point groups and space groups, Single Crystals, Polycrystalline Materials, Anisotropy.
Module-3
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Module-4
POLYMERIC MATERIALS AND LIQUID CRYSTALS Introduction, Thermotropic liquid crystals; Lyotropic liquid crystals: lamellar, hexagonal, cubic, and nematic phases; Chemical constitution and liquid crystalline behaviour; liquid crystalline behaviour in homologous series (para-azoxyanisole, para-alkyloxy benzene homologous series); molecular ordering in nematic, cholesteric, smetic, and columnar liquid crystals; Identification of liquid crystals; liquid crystalline polymers; Applications of liquid crystal in displays: introduction, twisted nematic cell transmissive, and reflective displays; types of liquid crystal displays and their applications, applications of chiral liquid crystals in thermography.
Module-5 CERAMIC, AND SMART MATERIALS
Ceramic Materials: Types of ceramics, synthesis and processing of ceramics, classification of ceramics, applications. Smart materials: Historical background, definition, classification of smart materials, thermo responsive materials, piezoelectric materials, ferrofluids: synthesis and application, electro- rheological fluids (ER) and magneto-rheological fluids (MR) fluids modes of operation and application, smart gel, shape memory alloys.
Course Outcomes:
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Question Paper Pattern:
- The question paper will have ten full questions carrying equal marks. Each full question consisting of 16 marks.
- There will be two full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions) from each module.
- Each full question will have sub question covering all the topics under a module.
Text Books:
- Material Science D. John Thiruvadigal, S. Ponnusamy, C. Preferencial Kala, M. Krishna Mohan Vibrant Publications First Edition, 2014
- Materials Science and Engineering V. Raghavan PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd. Sixth Edition, 2015
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