This course teaches the crystal structure and crystallography and is divided into three sections. The first section is on the crystal structure and describes how the simple metallic and complicate structures like ionic and covalent bonded structures are formed. The details of atomic structure of defects such as dislocations, twins, grain boundaries, and surface will be examined. The second section is the crystallography. After the introduction of symmetry, the seven crystal systems, 14 Bravais lattice, and

This course is to provide beginning graduate students with the basic, quantitative ideas on kinetic processes in materials in general. The overall reaction taking place in materials is usually a consecutive process of surface or interface reaction and diffusion in the bulk. Mathematics of diffusion in continuum is first dealt with in some depth, followed by the atomic theory of diffusion, chemical reaction kinetics and linear irreversible thermodynamics. This course will explore diffusion in concentration g

As the processing technology of materials become smaller and smaller, rightfully with the emergence of nanotechnolo- gy, the results of the processing should be understood with the statistical distribution of behaving atoms and molecules. Since most of these processing results are based on kinetics, rather than thermodynamics, the subject of “Statistical Mech- anics” should be taught in the graduate class of “Materials Science and Engineering” in conjunction with “Statistical Thermodynamics”. “Statistical M

The structural, chemical, and electronic properties of interfaces and boundaries between different materials or similar materials are of the prime importance for their optimized performance in many electrical, optical, mechanical, bio- chemical systems. The transport properties of many interfaces are closely related to the structural correlations between the different materials. In this course, therefore, the fundamental principles and advanced methods for observing the interface and boundary structures in

This course introduces application of biomedical materials, mainly covering biomedical implants. Materials for biomedical implants should have good mechanical properties as well as excellent biocompatibility. A variety of nanotechnologies are being developed to enhance the mechanical properties of ceramics and metals. Biocompatibility of the implant materials are also improved by hybridizing materials using those nanotechnologies. Another plausible approach to generate excellent biomedical materials is to c

This course provides knowledge about the basic principles of the electrochemical responses and changes in metal, semiconductors, inorganic materials, organic molecules, macromolecule materials and their hybrid materials, and the experimental procedures using the principles. On the basis of these knowledges, the methodologies, present and future conditions of applying the solar batteries, fuel cells, electric photochemistry, sensors, and semiconductor electrochemistry will be discussed.

This course provides the understanding of the synthesis mechanism of nanostructured materials and exploits the synthesis methodology of organic-inorganic hybrid technologies for energy conversion and storage devices. The principles, materials, and device fabrications in battery, solar cell, fuel cell, and white LED will be discussed in this lecture.

This unit aims to develop in-depth understanding of the various methods of synthesis of nanomaterials and nanofabrication techniques, as well as of properties and applications of nanostructured materials. The nanomaterials include one-dimensional nanotubes, nanorods, nanowires and nanofibres, two-dimensional thin films, nanoporous materials and nanocomposites. Nanofabrication techniques such as lithography and self-assembly will be introduced. Special emphasis will be placed on bulk nanomaterials produced b

Starting from the understanding of the electronic structure of conjugated molecules and molecular solids, electrical and optical properties of conjugated molecular solids and polymers will be covered in depth. Exciton generation and decay, metal/organic and organic/organic junctions, charge injection, transport and recombination are included. Device physics and recent research trend of organic optoelectronic devices such as organic light emitting diodes, organic thin film transistors, and organic photovolta

Fundamentals of crystal structure, band structure, defects, mechanical, optical and electronic properties, crystal growth methods, and processing of compound semiconductors, those hetero and nano-structure properties and preparations, applications to optoelectronic and high frequency devices will be covered in this lecture.

Conjugated polymers, block copolymers, biopolymers, liquid crystalline polymers, dendrimers, high performance polymers, and their biomedical and optoelectronic applications will be discussed through the semester. Students will learn design principle to achieve specific functions from polymers, synthetic methodology, physical chemistry of functional polymers, structure-property relationship, and fabrication of devices from functional polymers.

This graduate program is designed to achieve a higher quality of education and research program, and is managed by world’s leading experts in hybrid materials science. The invited speakers will deliver a one-day (or a half-day) lecture on the subject of his/her work and a one-hour seminar about his/her recent research results.

This course discusses basic concepts and research trends of recent developments in hybrid materials science and engineering.

This course discusses basic concepts and research trends of recent developments in hybrid materials science and engineering.

This course is intended to provide MSE graduate students with the fundamental theories and applications for electrical and optical properties of molecular, suprmolecular, and macromolecular materials. Basic concepts of quantum chemical principles together with the optical, electrical, and magnetic properties of organic solid will be covered in the first part. Based on the first part knowledges, specific applications and related molecular design aspects will be dealt in detail in respective chapters; condu