Link to Canvas
Links to lecture materials are below. Each lecture covers a big topic, and generally it takes several academic lectures to cover each of them.
Useful books related to the course are placed here
Lecture 1 - Stability of Materials: types of stability, measure of stability, technical ways of computations, phase diagrams
Lecture 2 - Mechanical properties and stability of materials: Small deformation of solid state, Mechanical stresses, Hook’s law, Elastic constants, Elastic moduli, Mechanical stability criterion, Stress-strain diagram, AI for hardness
Lecture 3 (Invited), Dr. Ilia Chepkasov - Nanoparticles
Lecture 4 - Lattice vibrations: What are phonons? Vibrations lattice with identical atoms, Equations of motion, Phonon dispersion
Lecture 5 - Surfaces: Reminders on crystallography, 2D lattice, Miller index, Surface structures, Surface notations, Relaxation and reconstruction, Energy calculations
Lecture 6 – Defects in Solids: Reminder about crystals, types of defects, point defects, line defects, dislocations and properties, polycrystals
Lecture 7, Aleksandra Radina – Catalysis: General principles of catalysis, descriptors, theories of chemical reactions, homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, photocatalysis
Lecture 8 (Invited), Prof. Dmitry Kvashnin – Stability of 2D materials
Lecture 9 (Invited), Dr. Alexey Kartsev - Magnetic materials
Lecture 10 (Invited), Michail Lukanov – Kinetics on the surface
SCHEDULE for 2024 year is here.
Tutorials on Quantum ESPRESSO is be placed here. Useful scripts to work with QE tutorial is placed here.