Materials Chemistry for Energy, Electronics, and Sustainability

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This class discusses the underlying chemical and physical principles of solid-state materials that give rise to their unique properties that set them apart from molecular species, including: charge transport, light absorption/emission, surface chemistry, and magnetism and other collective electronic phenomena. Further, a portion of the course will focus on spectroscopic and diffraction-based methods for analyzing materials, whose study will reinforce understanding of materials' underlying structure-property relationships.