This course will introduce inorganic nonmetallic materials, including their basic concepts and common theory, professional knowledge and critical points related to areas of materials manufacturing and study. Main contents contain: materials manufacturing and processing techniques and principles involved during those processes; structures, properties and fabrication methods of typical traditional materials such as oxides, carbides, nitrides, glass, ceramics, cements and concretes; manufacturing of low-dimensional materials such as powders and thin films. At the same time, combining the up-dated recent progress in new materials study and development, cover typical new materials, new theory, and new research breakthroughs in the field, in particular on recent new carbon nanomaterials that have stimulated tremendous interest in the materials and nanotechnology fields, for example, carbon nanotubes and graphene. This course will introduce the synthesis techniques, structural characteristics, physical and chemical properties of those new carbon nanomaterials, and their potential applications in areas related to electronic devices, renewable energy resources and environmental protection. Through learning this course, students should understand the basic manufacturing principles and processing techniques of inorganic nonmetallic materials, characteristics and features of those engineering processes, gain a relatively thorough knowledge covering the materials structure and properties, fabrication methods, and potential applications, and in addition some new materials and related new techniques
Materials Science and Engineering
材料工程是研究材料成分、结构、工艺、性能与用途有关知识和应用的学科，涉及物质的性质及其在各个科学和工程学领域的整合应用，研究材料的制备或加工工艺、材料的微观结构与材料宏观性能三者之间的相互关系。
