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EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

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INR 3743yesMIT Cambridge

The Syllabus

  • Introduction: Surface Science
  • New Surface Creation
  • Surface Energy for High-Index Planes
  • Surface and Chemical Potential: Spherical Particles
  • Surface Effects in Nanosystems

  • Atomically Smooth vs. Atomically Rough Surfaces
  • The Jackson Model of Crystal Growth
  • The Jackson Factor
  • Morphology of Crystals Grown from Melt

  • Introduction to Growth and Ripening
  • 2-D Grain Growth
  • Grain Boundary Motion: Interface Curvature
  • Grain Boundary Motion: Laplace Pressure
  • Grain Growth Kinetics

  • Ostwald Ripening Kinetics
  • Ostwald Ripening: Mean Field Approximation
  • Ostwald Ripening: Particle Coarsening
  • Ostwald Ripening: Lifshitz-Slyozov-Wagner Theory
  • Practical Implications of Grain Growth and Ostwald Ripening

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