DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS

CY7220 : Chemistry of Novel Materials

Physical Chemistry
  • Chemistry today, an overview-molecular materials, functional materials, nanomaterials, new techniques for microscopic investigation.
  • Clusters, gas phase spectroscopy, metallic clusters, tools for their study.
  • Fullerenes, discovery electronic structure spectroscopy, chemistry, derivatives, novel properties, superconductivity, orientational ordering associated properties, carbon nanotubes, onions, new forms of carbon.
  • Organic monolayers, L-B films, self assembly, techniques to study thickness, molecular properties , chemistry with LB and SAM film. Novel polymeric materials, conducting polymers.
  • Metal-carbon clusters, metallocarbohedrenes, gas phase chemistry.
  • Semiconductor nanocrystals, quantum dots, electronic structure, spectroscopy.
  • Mesoporous solids, new materials for catalysis.