M. Tech. (Materials and Metallurgical Engineering):Electronic Polymers

First Semester

Structure and Properties of Materials
Mechanical Behaviour of Materials
Physical Metallurgy
Characterization and Testing of Materials
Research Methodology


Second Semester

Electro-magnetic Properties of Materials
Failure Analysis
Computational Methods for Materials using C-programming
Materials Processing


Third Semester

Seminar
Thesis (Starts)


Fourth Semester

Thesis (Cont…)


Electronic Polymers

Introduction: Classification and structure of polymers, Glass transition, Linear viscoelasticity, Stress relaxation and dynamic experiments, Mechanical models, Superposition principles, Effect of structure on mechanical properties, Rubber elasticity, Yield and fracture.

Types of Polymers: Electroactive polymers, Electronic structures in crystallographically ordered conjugated polymers, Ferroelectric polymers (PVDF, etc), Liquid crystal polymers, etc

Properties and Applications of Polymers: Electronic properties of polymers, Mechanisms of charge transfer, Electrical conducting polymers like poly pyrrole, Polythiophene, Polyaniline their properties and applications, Polymers for molecular electronics, Non-linear and electro-optic properties of polymers.