Syllabus

UNIT-I
Smart Materials: Piezoelectric materials, Shape memory alloys and shape memory polymers, Magnetostrictive materials, pH-sensitive polymers, Halochromic materials, Chromogenic-systems, Ferrofluid, Rehological fluid, Processing and applications of different smart materials.

NanoEngineering: Nanomaterials, Nanocomposites, Classification of Nanomaterials, fabrication of nanomaterials, Processing and Applications of Nanomaterials.

UNIT-II
High Performance Alloys: Super alloys, Classification of superalloys, different phases and their transformation, Ni-based super alloys, commercially available pure nickel alloys, Co-based superalloys, Fe-based superalloys, Ti alloys, Al-Li alloys, Processing and Applications of Superalloys.

Functional and Engineering Ceramics: Ceramics and their classifications, Cutting tools and their diverse applications, Cermets, Cubic Boron Nitride, polycrystalline diamond, Processing and Applications of Ceramics.

UNIT-III
Biomaterials: Metallic biomaterials like 316L stainless steel, Co-Cr Alloys, Titanium Ti6Al4V, Ceramic biomaterials like Alumina, Zirconia, Carbon Hydroxyapatite, Polymeric biomaterials like Ultra high molecular weight polyethylene, Polyurethane, Processing and Applications of biomaterials.

Bulk metallic glasses (BMG): Various methods for BMG production, Classification of BMG,Properties and behaviors of BMG, Thermodynamic aspects of stability, Potential applications of BMG, Processing and Applications of BMG.

UNIT-IV
Ultra-light Materials: Introduction of Ultralight materials, Aerogel, Classification of Aerogel, Properties of Aerogel, Applications of Aerogel, Aerographite, Aerographene, 3D Graphene, Carbyne, Micro-Lattice Materials, Metallic Micro-Lattice, Applications of metallic microlattice, Polymer Microlattice, Applications of Polymer microlattice, Ceramic Microlattice, Composite Microlattice, Foams, Metallic Foams, Classification of metallic foam, Properties and Application, Ceramic foam, Polymeric foam, Classification of Polymer Foams, Processing and Applications of ULM.

>To know various types of advanced materials and their classification

> To know the fundamental principles of various advanced materials

> To know the synthesis of various advanced materials

>To know the application of the advanced materials

> Can know the current-development/advances-in-materials in metallurgical field
> Will aware about the advances in materials related to interdisciplinary field.
> Update on the advances in application of advanced materials.
> Understanding the processing routes for the synthesis of advanced materials.
> Understanding the properties of advanced materials for unusual conditions.
> Understand the thermodynamics of advanced materials.

Ajit Behera, Text Book: Advanced Materials, Springer

C. Suryanarayan and A. Inoue, Bulk Metallic Glasses, Taylor and Francis