Crystal Structure: Crystalline and amorphous solids; crystal systems, point groups: methods of characterizing crystal structure - Powder x-ray diffraction, electron and neutron diffraction; types of close packing - hcp and ccp, packing efficiency, radius ratios; polyhedral description of solids; structure types -NaCl, ZnS, Na2O, CdCl2, wurtzite, nickel arsenide, CsCl, CdI2, rutile and Cs2O, perovskite ABO3, K2NiF4, spinels.
Preparative methods: Solid state reaction, chemical precursor method, co-Precipitation, sol-gel, metathesis, self-propagating high temperature synthesis, ion exchange reactions, intercalation / deintercalation reactions; hydrothermal and template synthesis; High pressure synthesis.
Methods of Single Crystal Growth: Solution growth; Melt Growth-Bridgeman, Czochralski, Kyropoulus, Verneuil; Chemical Vapour Transport; Fused Salt Electrolysis; Hydrothermal method; Flux Growth
Characterization: Thermal analysis: TGA, DTA, DSC
Electrical properties: Band theory of solids -metals and their prop
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