What you’ll learn

Materials science is a major discipline—that respond to practical daily-life needs but also industrial activities on a larger scale. The development of advanced and functional Materials requires an advanced characterization and structure-property correlation in order to understand and anticipate their behavior and performance for various applications. This course equips you with the knowledge and practical skills to evaluate the structural and microstructural of materials and products from theory to hands-on application, this course is designed to help you go beyond classical and routine characterization to explore further information about your materials.

Objectives of the course:

• Provide basic theoretical knowledge on characterization techniques
• Provide the basic knowledge on how to perform Materials characterization.
  • Show the basic and advanced information that could be possibly extracted from characterization.
  • Build-up a whole picture of materials characteristics using complementary characterization techniques

Duration: 3 Days

Target Audience: Materials Engineers/Masters, Materials Chemistry Engineers/Masters

Module 1: Structural Analysis: X-Ray Diffraction analysis from phase identification to Rietveld refinement

1.1. Introduction to X-Ray analysis: Theory and applications
1.2. Phase identification & Databases

1.3. Introduction to Rietveld Refinement: Phase quantification, Lattice parameters, and crystallites’ size

Module 2: Microstructural Analysis: SEM microscopy

2.1. Introduction to SEM microscopy: Theoretical aspects
2.2. Image Acquisition Modes and beyond.

2.3. Elemental Analysis: Energy Dispersion X-ray spectroscopy (EDX)

Module 3: Compositional Characterization: FTIR spectroscopy

3.1. Introduction to FTIR spectroscopy

3.2. Spectrum acquisition modes and data analysis