Winter Semester

1. Fundamentals: Ceramic Processes and Products, Structures of Cristalline Ceramic Materials, Structures of Glasses, Defects, Surfaces, Interfaces and Grain Bounderies
2. Preparation of Ceramic Materials
3. Mecanical and Thermal Properties
4. Ceramic Conductors: Heating elements, Ohmic Resistors, Varistors, Ceramic Superconductors
5. Dielectrics and Insulators
6. Piezoelectric Ceramics
7. Pyroelectric Ceramics
8. Electrooptic Ceramics
9. Magnetic Ceramics
10. Ionic Ceramics: Fuel Cells, Batteries, Electrochromics, Supercaps, Photogalvanic Solar Cells, Water

1. Kingery, W.D., Bowen, H.K., Uhlmann, D.R.: Introduction to Ceramics, Wiley-Interscience, New York
2. Moulson, A.J., Herbert, J. M.: Electroceramics (Materials, Properties, Applications); Chapman & Hall, London
3. Steele, B.C. H. (Hrsg.): Electronic Ceramics; Elsevier Applied Science, London
4. Schaumburg, H. (Hrsg.): Keramik; B.G. Teubner, Stuttgart
Hench, L.L., West, J.K.: Principles of Electronic Ceramics; Wiley-Interscience, New York

1. Disorder: Disorder Equilibria, Disorder Reactions, Heterogeneous Equilibria, Brouwer Diagrams
2. Transport Processes in Solids: Phenomenological Description, Statistical Description, Diffusivity, Tracerdiffusion, Chemical Diffusion, Conductivity, Heterogeneous Catalysis, Minority Charge Carriers
3. Materials and Determination of Transport Properties: Superionik Conductors, Minority and Majority Charge Carriers
4. Galvanic Cells for the Determination of Thermodynamic and Kinetic Data: Nernst`s and Helmholtz`s Treatment, Determination of Gibbs Energies and Phase Equilibria, Determination of Kinetic Data.
5. Galvanic Cells for Practical Applications: Chemotronic Elements, Sensors, Electrochromics, Fuel Cells, High Performance Batteries

1. Rickert, H.: Electrochemistry of Solids, Springer-Verlag, Berlin
2. Hayes, W., Stoneham, A.M.: Defects and Defect Processes in Nonmetallic Solids, Wiley-Interscience, New York
3. Deportes, C.: Electrochimie des Solides, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, Grenoble
4. Kudo, T. Tueki, K.: Solid State Ionics, VCH, Weinheim

1. Phenomenological Thermodynamics: Gibbs' Representation, Multicomponent- / Multiphase Systems, Thermodynamics of Disorder
2. Determination of Thermodynamic Data: Calorimetry, Multiphase Equilibria, EMF-Methods, Heat Capacities, Examples
3. Statistical Thermodynamics: Boltzmann-, Fermi-Dirac- and Bose Einstein-Statistics, Determination of Phenomenological Parameters

1. D.V. Ragone, Thermodynamics of Materials, Wiley & Sons, New York, 1995
2. O. Kubaschewski, C.B.Alcock, P.J. Spencer, Materials Thermochemistry, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1993
3. P.W. Atkins, Physical Chemistry, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1992
4. C.G. Bergeron, S.H. Risbud, Introduction to Phase Equilibria in Ceramics
5. H. Schmalzried, Chemical Kinetics of Solids, VCH, Weinheim, 1995
6. H. Rickert, Electrochemistry of Solids, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York, 1982

1. Some general aspects General features of bond formation, important definitions and laws,
2. Thermochemistry,
3. Homogeneous chemical equilibria,
4. Heterogeneous equilibria and chemical kinetics,
5. Equilibria involving ions,
6. Ions in solution,
7. Electromotive force,
8. Chemical energy and electrical energy: electrochemistry,
9. The corrosion system: Material / corroding media,
10.Principles of corrosion,
11.Investigation of the corrosion resistance and corrosion protection,

P.W. Atkins, The Elements of Physical Chemistry
J.C. Anderson, K.D. Leaver, R.D. Rawlings and J.M. Alexander, Materials Science
Walter J. Moore, Physikalische Chemie
Gustav Kortüm, Lehrbuch der Elektrochemie
Gerd Wedler, Lehrbuch der Physikalischen Chemie

The course gives an intensive description of various synthesis methods of functional solid state material, which includes ionic and mixed conductors. Emphasis is given to design functional materials based on composition-structure property correlationsl

Tentative Contents:

1. Classification of Solids
2. Diffusion: Aspects of Solid-Solid Reactions
3. Solid State Synthetic techniques
Conventional Ceramic Method Low-temperature Precursor Routes, Solvation, Transport and Rapid Reaction Routes Chemie Douce (intercalation and ion-exchange) Molten salt fluxes and hydrothermal synthesis High Pressure Methods and Solid state metathesis reactions
4. Solid state characterization methods: Powder XRD, Electron diffraction, TGA and DTA analysis, DC and AC conductivity measurements, Galvanic cell measurements, transport number determination and spectroscopic methods.

West, A. R.: Solid State Chemistry and its Applications, John Wiley & Sons. New York.
Rao, C. N. R. and Gopalakrishnan, J.; New Directions in Solid State Chemistry, Cambridge University Press, London.
Rouxel, J. and Tournoux, M.: Chimie Douce with Solid Precursors, Past and Present" Solid State Ionics 84, 141-149 (1996).
Roy, R.: Accelerating the kinetics of low-temperature inorganic syntheses, J. Solid State Chem. 111, 11-17 (1994).
Manthiram, A.: Low temperature synthesis of insertion oxides for lithium batteries, Chem. Mater. 10, 2895-2909 (1998).

The course gives an intensive description of various synthesis methods of functional solid state material, which includes ionic and mixed conductors. Emphasis is given to design functional materials based on composition-structure-property correlations.

Tentative Contents:

1. Classification of Solids
2. Diffusion: Aspects of Solid-Solid Reactions
3. Solid State Synthetic techniques
Conventional Ceramic Method Low-temperature Precursor Routes, Solvation, Transport and Rapid Reaction Routes Chemie Douce (intercalation and ion-exchange) Molten salt fluxes and hydrothermal synthesis High Pressure Methods and Solid state metathesis reactions
4. Solid state characterization methods: Powder XRD, Electron diffraction, TGA and DTA analysis, DC and AC conductivity measurements, Galvanic cell measurements, transport number determination and spectroscopic methods.

West, A. R.: Solid State Chemistry and its Applications, John Wiley & Sons. New York.
Rao, C. N. R. and Gopalakrishnan, J.; New Directions in Solid State Chemistry, Cambridge University Press, London.
Rouxel, J. and Tournoux, M.: Chimie Douce with Solid Precursors, Past and Present" Solid State Ionics 84, 141-149 (1996).
Roy, R.: Accelerating the kinetics of low-temperature inorganic syntheses, J. Solid State Chem. 111, 11-17 (1994).
Manthiram, A.: Low temperature synthesis of insertion oxides for lithium batteries, Chem. Mater. 10, 2895-2909 (1998).

SM01 IS
SM02 CELLO
SM03 CO2 and O2 Sensors
SM04 Lithium Battery
SM05 XPS
SM06 AFM
SM07 DMA
SM08 TEM
SM09 SEM
SM10 DTA