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Spring 2012
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Chem 641 SOLID STATE CHEMISTRY |
Dr. G. L. R.
Weatherspoon |
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Tuesday, 4:30 p.m. - 7:10 p.m. |
Office Hours: R 3:00 - 4:00 p.m or
by appointment |
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Nguyen Engineering Building, Rm 1110 (ENGR 1110) |
S & T-1, Rm 343B |
The text for this course will be Basic Solid State Chemistry, by Anthony R. West. Supplementary reference materials are on reserve at
the Johnson Center Library. The course will consist of lectures, ungraded problem sets,
in-class presentation, a research paper, current literature reviews, a midterm examination
and a final examination. Some of the tentative topics to be covered are:
trends in the periodic table, synthetic routes to solid state materials,
characterization techniques, electrical, magnetic and optical properties of
materials. |
Grades will be determined as follows: (point
distribution is tentative)
| Presentation |
20% |
100 points |
| Research paper |
20% |
100 points |
| Midterm Exam |
30% |
150 points |
| Final Exam |
30% |
150 points |
| Total |
100% |
500 points |
Book Reserve List:
| Title |
Author |
| Solid State Chemistry:
Techniques |
Cheetham and Day |
| Solid State Chemistry:
Compounds |
Cheetham and Day |
| Chemical Applications of Group
Theory |
Cotton |
| Structural Inorganic Chemistry |
Wells |
| X-ray Structure Determination |
Stout and Jensen |
| Solid State Chemistry |
Smart and Moore |
| Solid State Physics |
Ashcroft and Mermin |
| Solid State Physics |
Kittel |
Other worthwhile resources
| Title |
Author |
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Inorganic Structural Chemistry |
U. Müller |
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Electronic Properties of Materials |
R. Hummel |
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Inorganic Crystal Structures |
Hyde and Andersson |
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Physical Chem. of Inorg. Crystalline Solids |
Franzen |
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Solids and Surfaces: A Chemist's
View of Bonding |
R. Hoffmann |
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LAST LECTURE MEETS MAY 1st. Final exam is May 15th @ 4:30 p.m.
TENTATIVE Course Outline CHEM 641-001
Spring 2012
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Subject
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| Week 1 |
Introduction/ Review of
Inorganic Chemistry concepts and theories |
| Week 2/3 |
Synthetic Routes |
| Week 4 |
Bonding in Solids |
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Week 5/6 |
Crystal structure and systems |
| Week 6/7 |
Crystallography and Diffraction Techniques |
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Week 7/8 |
Crystal Structure (Space Groups & their uses) |
| Week 8 |
Midterm Examination |
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Week 9 |
Other Characterization Techniques |
| Week 10 |
Other Spectroscopic Techniques |
| Week 11 |
Phase Diagrams |
| Week 12 |
Electrical Properties |
| Week 13 |
Magnetic & Optical Properties |
| Week 14 |
Papers due/ presentations |
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