Physical Ceramics
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The official GTU curriculum for Physical Ceramics (subject code 2183606) as prescribed for Chem. Tech. · Semester 8 divides the course into 3 units, covering 28 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2183606)Unit 1 Ceramic crystal structures
- Zinc blende
- Perovskite and Spinel structure etc
- Atomic Mobility Diffusion & Diffusivity
- Laws of Diffusion
- Diffusion in solids
- Controlling diffusivity
- Nernst-Eistein equation
- Temperature & impurity dependence of diffusion
- Diffusion in crystalline oxides
- Boundary & surface diffusion
Unit 2 Phase Transformations
- Formal theory of transformation kinetics with examples
- Spinodal decomposition
- Thermodynamics & kinetics of nucleation & growth. d) Grain Growth
- Sintering & Vitrification : Sintering - Single & multiphase
- Study of sintering - Kinetics
- mechanisms of mass transport
- Sintering variables
- Sintering aids .Recrystallisation & grain growth
- Abnormal grain growth
- Sintering vis-à-vis Vitrification
- Sintering with a reactive liquid
- Pressure sintering & hot pressing
- Secondary phenomena
- Firing shrinkage. 10
Unit 3 Microstructure & Characterisation
- Features in microstructures
- Microstructural observations - Optical & Electron Microscopy
- Techniques of sample preparation
- Ceramic Phase Equilibrium Diagrams: Techniques of determining
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