Advanced Materials and Applications
Keywords:
Materials and Applications, Performance Improvement, Vapor Compression, Refrigeration System, Methods for a Vapor Compression, Energy Materials, Applications, Development, Novel Energy, Energy Storage, Gradient Porosity, Photovoltaics, Solar Fuels, Transmission, Nanomaterials, Macroscopic, Potential, Kinetic Energy, Ejector Design Using CFD, Fluorescence Microscopy, Materials, Characterization and Microscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Optical Properties, Compound Microscope, Control of Images, Materials Science, Structure of Atoms and Molecules, Light Microscopy, p-Block Elements, Polymer, Microelectronic, Solar Cells, Opto-Electronic Devices, LED Bulbs, Computers, Sensors, Solar Energy, Strength Ductility, Hardness, Impact Resistance, Fracture, Engineering, Raw Materials, Metal's Spectrum, Mechanical StrengthSynopsis
Modern undergraduates and graduate students are keenly interested in the various ways in which chemistry impacts everyday life. This interest stems partly from career imperatives, but also from a natural interest in the relationship between fundamental science and the technology that increasingly dominates our lives. Classical chemistry courses at the university level rightly emphasize fundamental science. But courses that focus on the utilization of that chemistry are still rare.
This book is an outgrowth of a course in materials chemistry that I have taught for several years in the Chemistry Department at various Institutions. It is a course taken by advanced undergraduates and by students who are in the first year of the graduate program in chemistry, most of whom have had little or no prior exposure to materials science. The class has also attracted undergraduates from materials science and chemical engineering programs who are seeking a general overview of the field.
The subject matter is wide-ranging and, because the course extends over only one semester, the treatment aims for breadth, understanding, and perspective rather than great depth. The athematical foundations of the field are deliberately excluded in order to emphasize chemical concepts rather than the traditional engineering or physics treatments. A challenge with this approach is that published material relevant to this subject is widely scattered in specialist books and research articles, and this presents a problem for students who seek to access background reading material.
Thus, I have written this book in order to present a qualitative overview of relevant chemistry-related aspects and to provide a springboard to encourage readers to delve deeper into specific topics. Each chapter ends with a brief summary of future challenges in the different fields that could form the basis of class discussions and brainstorming sessions. A few of the references are to historical, ground-breaking articles that described major discoveries. Many of the study questions pose practical challenges in new materials design that students are encouraged to address either through written reports or through class discussions. Attempts by students to solve these practical problems have proved to be a popular aspect of the course.
This also provides an introduction to the ways in which science and technology become integrated in the wider world. I am grateful to several colleagues who read sections of the manuscript and made valuable suggestions. I am also highly appreciative of the suggestions made by members of my research group and by numerous students who have taken this course and had an opportunity to see preliminary drafts of several chapters. Of course, any errors that remain are mine alone. I hope that this book proves useful to all who have an interest in the impact of chemistry on modern technology and in the unique ways in which scientists have the knowledge, skills, and vision to bring about dramatic improvements to our way of life.
Chapters
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Analysis of Performance Improvement Methods for a Vapor Compression Refrigeration System
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Biomaterials
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An Introductory Approach to Biosensors: Types and their Applications
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Energy Materials and their Applications
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Optimization of Ejector Design Using CFD Analysis
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Characterization and Microscopy
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Electric, Photonic and Magnetic Materials
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Mechanical Properties of Materials
