An Introduction to Materials Science

✍ Scribed by Wenceslao González-Viñas; Héctor L. Mancini

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 201
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Materials science has undergone a revolutionary transformation in the past two decades. It is an interdisciplinary field that has grown out of chemistry, physics, biology, and engineering departments. In this book, González-Viñas and Mancini provide an introduction to the field, one that emphasizes a qualitative understanding of the subject, rather than an intensely mathematical one.

The book covers the topics usually treated in a first course on materials science, such as crystalline solids and defects. It describes the electrical, mechanical, and thermal properties of matter; the unique properties of dielectric and magnetic materials; the phenomenon of superconductivity; polymers; and optical and amorphous materials. More modern subjects, such as fullerenes, liquid crystals, and surface phenomena are also covered, and problems are included at the end of each chapter.

An Introduction to Materials Science is addressed to both undergraduate students with basic skills in chemistry and physics, and those who simply want to know more about the topics on which the book focuses.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Chapter 1. What Is a Material?
1.1 Classifications
1.2 Fundamental Properties of Different Kinds of Materials
Chapter 2. Crystalline Solids
2.1 Order, Translational Invariance, and Anisotropy
2.2 Bravais Lattice,Wigner-Seitz Cell, Reciprocal Lattice, and First Brillouin Zone
2.3 Crystalline Structures: Types of Crystals and Their Properties
2.4 Schrödinger Equation, Periodic Potentials and Bloch’s Theorem, and Energy Bands
2.5 Conductors, Insulators, and Semiconductors
2.6 Characterization of Crystal Structures
Problems
Chapter 3. Imperfections
3.1 Defects: Types of Defects and Vibrations
3.2 Point Defects: Frenkel and Schottky Defects
3.3 Dislocations and Disclinations
3.4 Planar Defects and Grain Size
3.5 Defect Detection
3.6 Amorphous Materials
Problems
Chapter 4. Electrical Properties
4.1 Electrical Conductivity and Temperature
4.2 Thermoelectric and Galvanomagnetic Effects
4.3 Semiconductor Electronic Devices
Problems
Chapter 5. Mechanical and Thermal Properties
5.1 Mechanical Properties
5.2 Phonons
5.3 Thermal Properties
Problems
Chapter 6. Magnetic Materials and Dielectrics
6.1 Diamagnetism and Paramagnetism
6.2 Ferromagnetism, Ferrimagnetism, and Antiferromagnetism
6.3 Magnetic Resonances
6.4 Applications
6.5 Dielectrics
Problems
Chapter 7. Superconductivity
7.1 Introduction and Applications
7.2 Type I and Type II Superconductors
7.3 Josephson Effect
Problems
Chapter 8. Optical Materials
8.1 The Interaction of Radiation with Matter
8.2 Optical Parameters
8.3 Propagation of Light in Solids
8.4 Absorption and Emission of Radiation in Solids
8.5 Lasers
8.6 Effects of the Crystalline Structure on the Refractive Index
Problems
Chapter 9. Noncrystalline Materials
9.1 Quasicrystals
9.2 Glasses and Glassy Materials
9.3 Metallic Glasses
9.4 Amorphous Ferromagnets
9.5 Amorphous Semiconductors
9.6 Low-Energy Excitations in Amorphous Solids
Problems
Chapter 10. Polymeric Materials
10.1 Molecular Structure
10.2 Macromolecular Architecture
10.3 Crystalline, Semicrystalline, and Amorphous Polymeric Materials
10.4 Distribution of MolecularWeights and Sizes
10.5 Polymerization Procedures
10.6 Properties of Polymeric Materials
10.7 Design Polymers
Problems
Chapter 11. Surface Science
11.1 Electronic Structure of Surfaces
11.2 Nanocrystalline Surface Formation
Problems
Chapter 12. New Materials
12.1 Fullerenes
12.2 Liquid Crystals
12.3 Biocompatible Materials
Appendix A. Physical Constants
Bibliography
Index