Teaching
Crystallography and Crystal Analysis
- (Graduate students course), MAE-580, West Virginia University
Course Flowchart
Structure of Materials
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Formal description of crystal structures
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Crystal Defects
Structure analysis by X-ray diffraction
Structure and chemistry characterization by TEM:
- Electron diffraction
- Diffraction contrast imaging
- Phase contrast HREM imaging
- Z-contrast imaging
- EDX and EELS analysis
Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Materials
- (Graduate students course), MAE-583, West Virginia University
Course Flowchart
Classical Thermodynamics
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Thermodynamics in Materials Science
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Kinetics in Materials
Thermodynamics in Materials Science:
- Thermodynamics of phase of constant composition
- Thermodynamics of solid solutions
- Thermodynamics of binary phase diagram
- Thermodynamics of interfaces
- Thermodynamics of defect
Kinetics in Materials:
- Concepts of kinetics, activation energy
- Diffusion in solids & driving force for diffusion
- Diffusivity & atomic mechanisms of diffusion
- Kinetics of phase transformation, nucleation and growth