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Processing Technology of Metallic Nanomaterials

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 653-3026/01
Abbreviation TPKN
Course title Processing Technology of Metallic Nanomaterials
Credits 3
Coordinating department Department of Materials Engineering and Recycling
Course coordinator doc. Dr. Ing. Monika Losertová

Subject syllabus

1. Characteristics of nanostructural materials. Basic types of nanostructural metallic materials and their application.
2. Preparation of nanostructural materials from various phases (gas, melt, aqueous solutions, suspensions). Criteria for selection of the preparation method.
3. Preparation of nanostructural materials by condensation from inert gases, CVD and PVD methods. Preparation of metallic materials, intermetallic compounds, oxides, carbides and nitrides of metals.
4. Plasma and electron beam processes for preparation of nanostructural materials.
5. Preparation of nanostructural materials by the process Nano Arc Synthesis. Use of energy of arc discharge for preparation of single-component and multi-component oxides of rare earth metals, transition metals, etc.
6. Methods of preparation of solutions, micro-emulsions and aerosols and their subsequent drying. Preparation of single-component and multi-component materials.
7. Preparation of nanostructural materials by processes of rapid solidification of melts.
8. Preparation of nanostructural materials by grinding and mechanical alloying in high-power ball mills.
9. Methods of evaluation of properties of nanostructured materials. Structural characteristics.
10. Mechanical properties of selected nano-crystalline metals. Super-plastic behaviour.
11. Production of nano-crystalline materials by SPD technologies ECAP (C2S2, DECAP, CS and tixoforming). Examples of use of nano-crystalline materials in advanced structures (aircraft industry, army technology).

E-learning

TEAMS - textbooks and other texts, online tutorials

Literature

GUSEV, A.I. and A.A. REMPEL. Nanocrystalline materials. Cambridge: Cambridge International Science Publishing, 2004. ISBN 1-898326-26-6.
POOLE, Ch.P., OWENS, F.J. Introduction to nanotechnology. Hoboken: Wiley, 2003. ISBN 0-471-07935-9.
WANG, Z.L., ed. Characterization of nanophase materials. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH, 2000. ISBN 3-527-29837-1.
RIETH, M. Nano-engineering in science and technology: an introduction to the world of nano-design. Singapore: World Scientific, 2003. ISBN 981-238-073-6.

Advised literature

BORISENKO, V.J., S.V. GAPONENKO and V.S. GURIN, ed. Physics, chemistry and application of nanostructures: reviews and short notes to Nanomeeting 2003. River Edge: World Scientific, 2003. ISBN 981-238-381-6.
DECHER, G. and J.B. SCHLENOFF, ed. Multilayer thin films: sequential assembly of nanocomposite materials. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2003. ISBN 3-527-60057-4 .