NPTEL : NOC:Non-Metallic Materials (Metallurgy and Material Science)

Co-ordinators : Prof. Subhasish Basu Majumder


Lecture 1 - Classification and applications of non-metallic materials

Lecture 2 - Understanding on polymer structures

Lecture 3 - Characteristics of polymers and advanced polymeric materials

Lecture 4 - Processing of polymers

Lecture 5 - Polymer composites and issues related to recycling

Lecture 6 - Defects in crystalline materials:point, line, planar and three dimensional defects

Lecture 7 - Non- stoichiometry in non-metallic materials

Lecture 8 - Laws of thermodynamics, reaction kinetics - Part 1

Lecture 9 - Laws of thermodynamics, reaction kinetics - Part 2

Lecture 10 - Phase diagram and microstructure evolution in non-metallic materials

Lecture 11 - Carbonaceous materials

Lecture 12 - Fundamental of diffusion, Fick’s laws, their solution and applications - Part 1

Lecture 13 - Fundamental of diffusion, Fick’s laws, their solution and applications - Part 2

Lecture 14 - Phase transformation of non-metallic materials

Lecture 15 - Introduction to glass and amorphous solids

Lecture 16 - Understanding on conventional glass and amorphous solids

Lecture 17 - Glass-ceramics and specialty glasses

Lecture 18 - Mechanical properties of non-metallic materials, stress-strain response, elastic, and plastic deformation

Lecture 19 - Brittle and ductile materials, introduction to fracture mechanics, strength of brittle materials

Lecture 20 - Strengthening of materials, fatigue, and creep

Lecture 21 - Composite materials: Particle-reinforced composites, and fiber reinforced composites

Lecture 22 - Structural Composite

Lecture 23 - Dielectric and piezoelectric behavior

Lecture 24 - Ferroelectric Behaviour of Non-Metallic Materials and Ferroelectric thin film for Non-Volatile Memory Applications

Lecture 25 - Magnetic Properties : Origin of Magnetism, Para, Dia, Ferro, and Ferrimagnetism

Lecture 26 - Ceramic Magnets and their Applications

Lecture 27 - Thermal Properties : Specific Heat, Heat Conduction, Thermal Diffusivity, Thermal expansion

Lecture 28 - Thermoelectric Effect and Magnetocaloric Effect

Lecture 29 - Optical properties: Refractive index, absorption and transmission of electromagnetic radiation, LASERS

Lecture 30 - Introduction to electrochemistry, Galvanic cells, Cell potentials and Gibbs Energy, Concentration dependence

Lecture 31 - Electrochemical storage, rechargeable batteries

Lecture 32 - Introduction to electrochemical methods; cyclic voltammetry and other related techniques

Lecture 33 - Fuel Cell and Energy harvesting

Lecture 34 - Preparation of ceramic powders: auto-combustion, sol-gel synthesis, microwave assisted hydrothermal synthesis

Lecture 35 - Introduction to sintering, sintering mechanism

Lecture 36 - Solid-state sintering and microstructure development

Lecture 37 - Solid-state sintering and microstructure development (Continued...)

Lecture 38 - Liquid phase sintering and microstructure development, speciality sintering, reactive sintering

Lecture 39 - Processing of glass and amorphous/non-crystalline solids

Lecture 40 - Fundamental of thin film growth, growth mechanism and kinetics

Lecture 41 - Thin film growth techniques, thermal evaporation, CVD, sputtering, CSD

Lecture 42 - Fundamentals and processing of conducting and semiconducting ceramic devices

Lecture 43 - Processing of ceramics devices

Lecture 44 - Organic electronic materials: conducting polymers, semi-conducting organic materials, applications

Lecture 45 - Thermal analyses

Lecture 46 - Introduction of spectroscopic technique : UV-VIS spectroscopy

Lecture 47 - Infra-red and Raman spectroscopy

Lecture 48 - Optical and scanning electron microscopy

Lecture 49 - X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

Lecture 50 - Measurement of mechanical properties, fracture toughness, MOR, hardness

Lecture 51 - Ferroelectric thin film: synthesis and characterization

Lecture 52 - Thermal analysis techniques: Differential scanning calorimetry and thermogravimetry

Lecture 53 - Measurement of optical properties

Lecture 54 - Novel ferroic composites: Synthesis and measurement

Lecture 55 - Fundamentals of corrosion, corrosion of materials

Lecture 56 - Oxidation, corrosion of ceramic materials, degradation of polymers: swelling and dissolution, bond rupture, weathering

Lecture 57 - Ceramics in biology and medicine

Lecture 58 - Design of Ceramics

Lecture 59 - Finishing of Ceramics

Lecture 60 - Fly-ash based glazed wall tiles: A case study