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CEM812             Spring 2013

Advanced Inorganic Chemistry II

Instructor: Prof. Viktor V. Poltavets

Office: Room 433 (Chemistry Building)

E-mail: poltavets@chemistry.msu.edu

Course web-page: http://www.chemistry.msu.edu/faculty/poltavets

Lectures: Tuesday and Thursday, 2:40 AM - 4:00 PM, Room 136 (Chemistry Building).

Office Hours: Thursday, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM (You are welcome to stop by at my office at any time during the week, or email for an appointment).

Office Hours: Monday, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (You are welcome to stop by at my office at any time during the week, or email for an appointment).

Scope and Purpose: This course is designed to introduce the students to the fundamentals of solid state chemistry with special emphasis on the structure-properties relationships.

Course Content

• Bonding in solids and electronic properties (electronic band structure, LCAO approach)

• Descriptive crystal chemistry (structure of solids, homologue series, intergrowth structures, defects and non-stoichiometry)

• Ionic bonding (Pauling’s Rules, Bond Valence concept)

• Translational symmetry, Bravais lattices, basic concepts of powder X-ray and neutron diffraction

• Physical methods for characterization of solids (XAS, XPS, TGA/DSC)

• Preparative methods

• Ionic conductivity: batteries and fuel cells

• Magnetism & magnetic materials

• Superconductivity

• Materials with strong electron correlations (carrier transport in transition metal oxides, superconductivity, magnetoresistivity, charge and spin density waves)

• Thermoelectric materials

Grades

Your grade will be determined by your performance on the following assignments:

Quiz (January 29)                                   50 points

Homework/Presentations              50 points

One in-class Exam (February 26)            100 points

The following grading scheme will be used: 4.0 for ≥90%, 3.5 for ≥83%, 3.0 for ≥75%, 2.5 for ≥68%, 2.0 for ≥61%, 1.5 for ≥54%, 1.0 for ≥46%. I might consider grade curving, so the grading scheme is subject to change.

Reference Materials

There is no single book that covers the entire course adequately, and some of this material is only available in research and review articles in journals to which I will refer during the lectures. Lecture notes and list of recommended articles will be posted on the course web-page.

Recommended additional texts

¨       Solids and Surfaces: A chemists view of bonding in extended structures by Roald Hoffmann
You can borrow this book from me
MSU main library - QD471 .H83 1988  

¨       Solid state chemistry and its applications by Anthony R. West
You can borrow this book from me
MSU main library - QD478 .W47 1984

¨       Solid state chemistry: an introduction by Lesley Smart and Elaine Moore
Concise and simpler than West’s book.
MSU main library - QD478 .S53 1995

¨       Computational Chemistry of Solid State Materials by Richard Dronskowski
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.proxy2.cl.msu.edu/book/10.1002/9783527612277
MSU main library - QD478 .D76 2005