Lahore University of Management Sciences

CHEM 522– Inorganic Materials Chemistry

Spring 2017

Instructor Muhammad Zaheer

Room No. 9-418A

Office Hours TBD

Email muhammad.zaheer@lums.edu.pk

Telephone 8465

Secretary/TA TBD

TA Office Hours

Course URL (if any)

Course Basics

Credit Hours 3

Lecture(s) Nbr of Lec(s) Per Week 2 Duration 75 minutes

Recitation (per week) Nbr of Rec (s) Per Duration

Week

Lab (if any ) per week Nbr of Session(s) Per Duration

Week

Tutorial (per week) Nbr of Tut(s) Per Week Duration

Course Distribution

Core

Elective Chemistry elective

Open for Student Category Physics, Chemistry, Biology major (senior year undergrad and grad)

Closed for Student Category

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This is an advanced level course in the area of materials chemistry. The focus is on the (synthesis) fabrication, properties and applications of
inorganic nano(porous)materials, high temperature materials (non-oxide ceramics) and the analytical tools used for their analysis. The course
centers and accounts on the latest research in the area and uses recently published research papers and review articles. The course primarily
addresses the needs of graduate research students but also useful for senior year undergraduate students working or planning for their senior
year project (SProj) in materials sciences.
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COURSE PREREQUISITE(S)

None

COURSE OBJECTIVES and OUTCOMES

After the completion of the course, the students are expected to:
• analyze and evaluate different methods of synthesis used for the designing of inorganic materials
• Correlate the structure of materials to their properties
• Apply the structure-property relationship of the materials to design new materials to fulfill the current or future social needs.
• Compare and apply different analytical tool required for the analysis of materials

Grading Breakup and Policy

Instruments are designed in order to test students skills (comprehension, analysis, synthesis, evaluation and application) that they are expected to
get from the course
Assignments/home work (03 in total) : 10%
Quiz (08 in total): 15%
Midterm Examination: 35%
Final Examination: 40% (3 hours final examination that will cover all the topics discussed during the course)

Examination Detail

Yes/No: yes
Combine Separate:
Midterm Exam
Duration: 75 min
Preferred Date:
Exam Specifications:

Yes/No: yes
Final Exam Combine Separate:
Duration: 120 min
Exam Specifications:
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COURSE OVERVIEW

Week/
Recommended Objectives/
Lecture/ Topics
Readings Application
Module

Lecture # 1: Introduction, emergence of

nanotechnology, bottom-up and top-down
approaches, challenges in nanotechnology,
nano-safety
Week 1 Chapters 1-2 (G. Cao)
Lecture # 2: surface energy, surface charge and
chemical potential, electrostatic and steric
stabilization of nanostructures

Lecture # 3: Zero-dimensional nanostructures:

(Homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation,
growth mechanism for nuclei)
Weak 2 Chapters 3 (G. Cao)
Lecture # 4: Zero-dimensional nanostructures(
Synthesis of metal, semiconductor and oxide
nanoparticles)

Lecture # 5: Zero-dimensional nanostructures

(synthesis inside micelles, aerosol synthesis,
spray pyrolysis and template based synthesis)
Weak 3 Chapters 3-4 (G. Cao)
Lecture # 6: Nanorods and nanowires
(evaporation-condensation growth)

Lecture # 7: Nanorods and nanowires (Vapor-

liquid-solid growth, precursors and catalysts,
size control)
Weak 4 Chapters 4 (G. Cao)
Lecture # 8: Nanorods and nanowires (template
based synthesis, electrospinning, lithography)

Lecture # 9: Fundamentals of film growth,

physical vapor deposition.
Weak 5 Chapters 5 (G. Cao)
Lecture # 10: chemicals vapor deposition of thin
films

Lecture # 11: self-assembly (monolayers of

organosilicon, alkanethiols and sulfides
Weak 6 Chapters 5 (G. Cao)
Lecture # 12: Atomic layer deposition and sol-
gel synthesis of thin films

Lecture # 13: Microporous materials (zeolites

and zeotypes, metal organic frameworks)
Weak 7 Chapters 6 (G. Cao) + course material
Lecture # 14: Mesoporous materials (MCM
materials, surface area measurement)
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Lectures # 15-16: Thermogravimetric analysis of
Weak 8 materials Chapter 3 (P. Gabbot)

Lecture # 17-18: Differential scanning

Weak 9 Chapter 1 (P. Gabbot)
calorimetry

Lecture # 19: Structure of crystalline solids:

(crystal system and Bravais lattices, Molecular
Orbitals and Band Structure)
Weak 10 Chapter 7 (Miessler)
Lecture # 20: low and high temperature
superconductivity, diodes, photovoltaic effect,
LEDs

Lecture # 21-24: X-ray powder diffraction

Weak 11-12 Chapters 1-2 (M. T. Weller)

Lecture # 25-26: surface area

Weak 13 measurement by nitrogen physisorption Chapter 09 (Kenneth)

Lecture # 27-28: Inorganic polymers and

Weak 14 Chapter 5(Schubert) + course material
ceramics derived from them

Textbook(s)/Supplementary Readings

1) Nanostructures and Nanomaterials, Synthesis, properties and applications by G. Cao. Imperial College Press.
2) Synthesis of Inorganic Materials, U. Schubert, N. Haeusing, Wiley-VCH Verlag & Co.
3) Inorganic Materials Chemistry, Mark T. Weller, Oxford University Press.
4) Nanoscale materials in chemistry, 2nd edition, by Kenneth, Klabunde & Richards. Wiley-VCH Verlag & Co.
5) Inorganic Chemistry by Missler & Tarr. Pearson.