Carbon based materials- carbon fiber, carbon-carbon composites, carbon aerogels  and foams,  Ceramic materials- polymer derived ceramics, ceramic fibers, ceramic matrix composites, thermal barrier coatings,  ceramics aerogels and foams, Ultrahigh temperature ceramics; materials with zero thermal expansion, Metallic materials- Evolution of materials for aerospace sectors, super alloys, titanium alloys, intermetallics and metal matrix composites; High temperature polymers- aromatic liquid crystalline polyesters, polyamide, phenolics, polyimide, poly ether ether ketones; Materia

Introduction to Composite Materials, Classification, reinforcement; Polymer matrix composites, Thermoplastic and thermosetting resins, Common matrix reinforcement system; Concept of A stage, B stage and C stage resins; Particulate and fibre filled composites, Short fibre composites, Theories of stress transfer; Continuous fibre composites, Failure mechanism and strength, Halpin-Tsai equations, Prediction of Poisson’s ratio, Various failure modes; Specialty composites, Composites for satellites and advanced launch vehicles, Design considerations, PMC- for structural composites, Nanocomposite

Introduction to materials processing; Polymer processing - rheology of polymeric materials, Compounding and processing of plastics and rubbers,fibre spinning and manufacturing processes.

Experiments:

To develop a model and solve for

1. Fully developed flow
2. Steady state heat conduction in large plate
3. Steady state two dimensional heat conduction
4. Transient state two dimensional heat conduction
5. Plug flow reactor
6. Batch reactor
7. CSTR in series with constant hold up
8. CSTR with feedback control
9. Numerical solution of ODE/PDE using MATLAB

Experiments:

1.        Synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials

a.         Sol-gel synthesis: TiO2

b.        Metallic nanoparticles: Ag@citrate and Au@citrate , Ag@borohydride, Ag@PVP

c.         CdS  quantum dots

d.        Graphene by Hammer’s method

e.         Functionalisation of CNT’s

Introduction to materials and techniques; Spectroscopic methods- UV-visible and vibrational spectroscopy- Infrared and Raman, Electron spectroscopies - X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, Ultra-violet photoelectron spectroscopy, Auger electron spectroscopy; Optical microscopy, Electron microscopy- SEM, TEM; Scanning Probe Microscopies: STM, AFM; Thermal analysis- TGA, DTA, DSC; Materials analysis by Non-destructive testing (NDT).

Detailed version

Introduction: General instrumental parameters, measurement basics.

Mathematical concepts; Introduction to solution techniques for ordinary differential equations,  Sturm-Liouville problems, Partial differential equations, Applications of PDE in heat transfer, mass transfer, diffusion, fluid flow, chemical reaction, transport process and process modeling-simulation, Boundary layer concept, balance equations for mass, momentum, energy; and estimation, Heat Transfer; Governing equations and boundary conditions; conduction, convection and radiation; Balance equations for mass transfer, Ideal reactors, Modeling of ideal reactors, solution techniques for mo

Introduction- Size and shape dependent properties and their uniqueness; surface characteristics and stabilization; Quantum confinement; Zero dimensional, one dimensional and two dimensional nanostructures - Processing of  nanomaterials - down and bottom up approaches-metal nanoparticles, quantum dots, nanoclusters, carbon based nanomaterials, core-shells, organic, inorganic, hybrid nanomaterials, biomimetic nanomaterials. – Techniques for characterization and property evaluation- relevant applications- societal implications and risk factors