Chemistry: Graduate Lecture Series: (MM1) From Molecules to Materials (3L)

NOVEL MATERIALS AND MICRODROPLETS (MM)

(MM1) From Molecules to Materials (3L)

The increasing need to develop low-temperature ‘soft’ approaches to existing or brand new materials presents the synthetic chemist with challenging and fresh horizons in the future. This short course will highlight how even simple inorganic and organic molecules, which have the right stoichiometry and characteristics, can be used to make electronic, catalytic and energy materials in a ‘bottom-up’ approach. The primary focus of the course is on the synthesis and design of precursors and the various epitaxial (vapour-phase) and solution approaches that have been used to deposit materials, comparing these approaches to high-temperature solid-state synthesis in particular. It will also describe how the array of modern solid-state methods can be used to characterise materials and how these materials function on a qualitative level in a number of key applications.

Postgraduates in the Department of Chemistry

Lecture

1 hour