Materials chemistry involves the study of the synthesis, properties, and applications of solid state and polymeric materials and represents a rapidly growing field. This introductory course is fashioned to illustrate how inorganic and organic polymer and solid state chemistry can be rationally used to synthesize superconductors, metals, semiconductors, ceramics, elastomers, thermo-plastics, thermosets, and polymer liquid crystals, with properties that can be tailored for applications in a range of advanced technologies. Coverage will be fairly broad and is organized to crosscut many aspects of the field. This course introduces the postulates of quantum mechanics to develop the fundamental framework of quantum theory. A number of exactly soluble problems are treated in detail as examples.
Perturbation theory is introduced in the context of understanding many body problems.
Various applications to molecular spectroscopy and dynamics are covered in detail. In this continuation of CHM225Y, more advanced topics in thermodynamics such as non-ideal effects are introduced. Statistical mechanics and its application to chemical problems are introduced. Reaction dynamics are analyzed from a fundamentals perspective. 1993 F.A. Cotton, G. Wilkinson, C.A. Murillo and M. Bochmann, Advanced Inorganic Chemistry, 6th ed. , Wiley, 1999.