MSc(Eng) Solid State Chemistry and its Applications

About the course

This course focuses on the application of chemistry to inorganic materials covering electroceramics, refractories, glasses, cements, solid electrolytes, and electrode materials and nanomaterials. You'll gain a broad overview of fabrication, processing, properties and applications of these materials.

Core modules

• Solid State Chemistry
• Materials For Energy Applications
• Crystal Chemistry
• Phase Diagrams and their Applications
• Glass Processing and Properties
• Refractory Materials and their Applications
• Functional Materials including Electroceramics and Magnetic
• Advanced Characterisation Techniques
• A research project in an area of your choice

Teaching

• Lectures
• Workshops
• Laboratory classes

Assessment

• Formal examinations
• Coursework assignments
• Dissertation

Your career

Our graduates are in demand all over the world. Some are now leaders in their field. You could become a researcher, teacher, professor or manager in industry, academia and research in the UK or abroad. Wherever your future lies, your degree will be highly respected. You’ll develop invaluable skills in critical analysis, logical reasoning and strategic project development.

Learn from experts

Our teaching is supported by our internationally recognised research. We are one of the largest materials departments in the UK – our worldwide reputation is built on a strong collaborative ethos, bringing together experimental, theoretical and modelling methodologies to solve problems. We’re a member of eight interdisciplinary research centres within the University and have good links with industry.

Your projects will be based on our original research. We have enthusiastic, involved and supportive staff who will teach you the latest discoveries and theories in their field. You’ll be challenged and stretched, and encouraged to exploit opportunities for science and innovation at the boundaries between traditional disciplines.

Equipment and facilities

Tools and production facilities for materials processing, fabrication and testing, including wet chemical processing for ceramics and polymers, rapid solidification and water atomisation for nanoscale metallic materials, and extensive facilities for deposition of functional and structural coatings. Our unique thermomechanical compression and arbitrary strain path equipment is used for simulation of hot deformation.

Excellent characterisation facilities include an array of microscopy and analysis equipment, x-ray facilities, and surface analysis techniques covering state-of-the-art XPS and SIMS. There are also laboratories for cell and tissue culture, and facilities for measuring electrical, magnetic and mechanical properties.

The Kroto Research Institute and the Nanoscience and Technology Centre enhance our capabilities in materials fabrication and characterisation, and we have a computer cluster for modelling from the atomistic through nano and mesoscopic to the macroscopic.

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