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    Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
    EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

    Courses and Certificate Fees

    Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
    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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