Advanced functional materials for industrial applications with lab

- Generalities on solid materials
o Classification and development of material chemistry
o Main characteristics (chemical and physical) related to the use
o Polymorphism
o Main steps of the industrial material production
o Main pure and raw materials
- Synthetic approaches
o Top-down and bottom-up approaches
o Crystalline and amourphous materials
o Crystallisation, precipitation, sol-gel syntheses, thermal and hydrothermal methods
o Pure and mixed Oxides
o Carbons
- Characterisation
o Overview of the main analytical techniques (structural and chemical composition)
- Cements and construction materials
o Raw materials
o Industrial production
o Hardening processes
o Chemical resistance
- Glasses and optical fibers
o Composition and classification
o Phase transition
o Industrial preparation
o Tecnological aspects of optical fibers