Course detail
Nonmetallic Materials
FSI-9NKMAcad. year: 2023/2024
The advanced course of non-metallic inorganic materials focused on the structure of ceramic materials and their physical and chemical properties. The topics of the course: diffusion in ceramic materials, mechanical behavior of ceramics, high temperature engineering ceramics, ceramic superionic conductors, ferroelectric ceramics, ferrimagnetic ceramics, semiconducting, polycrystalline ceramics, oxide superconductors, biomaterials for surgical usage.
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Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Depending on the number of participants, the course will take the form of consultations or lectures. At the end of the course the doctoral student will prepare a thematic presentation in the field of advanced ceramic materials.
Aims
Graduate of the course will be able to apply the acquired knowledge in doctoral study of material engineering and in particular in solving dissertation work connected with research in the field of advanced structural, electroceramic and bioceramic materials.
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Swain M. (volume editor): Structure and properties of ceramics, vol.11 of Materials Science and Technology, WCH, Weinheim 1994
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Syllabus
2. Mechanical behaviour of ceramics: elasticity, monocrystal and polycrystalline ceramics, influence of porosity. Fracture: fracture at the atomic level, crack initiation and propagation, plasticity, slip at the atomic level, dislocation glide in ceramics, high temperature plasticity, creep mechanisms, toughening mechanisms.
3. High temperature engineering ceramics, oxide ceramics (alumina, zirconia, mullite, cordierite), non-oxide ceramics (silicon nitride, silicon carbide, sialons), ceramic matrix composites.
4. Ceramic superionic conductors, theory of superionic conduction, oxygen-ion conductors (doped zirconia, ceria, hafnia, bismuth oxide, pyrochlores, beta-alumina), proton conductors (doped cerate, zirconate, beta-alumina).
5. Ferroelectric ceramics, crystal structure and ferroelectricity, high permitivity dielectrics, pyroelectric devices, piezoelectric devices, electrooptic devices, termistors.
6. Ferrimagnetic ceramics, basic concepts, ferrite crystal structures, microstructure and grain boundary chemistry.
7. Semiconducting polycrystalline ceramics, semiconductivity and grain boundary effects, electrostatic barriers and transport properties.
8. Oxide superconductors, crystal structures (cuprates, bismuth perovskites), properties, thin films.
9. Biomaterials for surgical use, physical properties and physiology of bone, compatibility between bioceramics and the physiological environment, main surgical alloys, biomedical polymers, biological glasses, ceramics (alumina, zirconia, titania, silicon nitride, composite aluminous ceramics, sialons, phosphate ceramics).