Fick's Second Law (FSL) and Transient-state Diffusion

Lecture Description

Course Description

This course explores the basic principles of chemistry and their application to engineering systems. It deals with the relationship between electronic structure, chemical bonding, and atomic order. It also investigates the characterization of atomic arrangements in crystalline and amorphous solids: metals, ceramics, semiconductors, and polymers (including proteins). Topics covered include organic chemistry, solution chemistry, acid-base equilibria, electrochemistry, biochemistry, chemical kinetics, diffusion, and phase diagrams. Examples are drawn from industrial practice (including the environmental impact of chemical processes), from energy generation and storage, e.g., batteries and fuel cells, and from emerging technologies, e.g., photonic and biomedical devices.

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Course Index

1. Introduction to Solid State Chemistry
2. Classification Schemes for the Elements
3. Rutherford Modle of the Atom and Bohr Model of Hydrogen
4. Atomic Spectra of Hydrogen and Matter/Energy Interactions Involving Atomic Hydrogen
5. The Shell Model and Multi-electron Atoms
6. De Broglie, Heisenberg, and Schrödinger
7. Octet Stability by Electron Transfer: Ionic Bonding
8. Covalent Bonding, Lewis Structures, and Hybridization
9. Electronegativity, Partial Charge, Polar Bonds and Polar Molecules
10. Hybridization, Double Bonds and Triple Bonds, Paramagnetism and Diamagetism
11. The Shapes of Molecules, Electron Domain Theory, and Secondary Bonding
12. Metallic Bonding, Band Theory of Solids, Band Gaps
13. Intrinsic and Extrinsic Semiconductors, Doping, Compound Semiconductors, and Molten Semiconductors
14. Introduction to the Solid State, the 7 Crystal Systems, and the 14 Bravais Lattices
15. Properties of Cubic Crystals
16. Characterization of Atomic Structure: The Generation of X-rays and Moseley's Law
17. X-ray Spectra and Bragg's Law
18. X-ray Diffraction of Crystals
19. Defects in Crystals: Point Defects, Line Defects, Interfacial Defects, and Voids
20. Amorphous Solids, Glass Formation, and Inorganic Glasses
21. Engineered Glasses: Network Formers, Network Modifiers, and Intermediates
22. Chemical Kinetics: The Rate Equation, Order of Reaction, Rate Laws
23. Diffusion: Fick's First Law and Steady-state Diffusion
24. Fick's Second Law (FSL) and Transient-state Diffusion
25. Solutions: Solute, Solvent, Solution, Solubility Rules, and Solubility Product
26. Acids and Bases: Arrhenius, Bronsted-Lowry, and Lewis Definitions, Acid Strength and pH
27. Organic Chemistry: Basic Concepts
28. Organic Glasses (Polymers): Synthesis by Addition Polymerization and by Condensation Polymerization
29. Structure-property Relationships in Polymers and Crystalline Polymers
30. Biochemistry: The Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins
31. Phase Diagrams
32. Two-component Phase Diagrams: Limited Solid Solubility
33. Wrap-up