2024 Faculty Courses School of Materials and Chemical Technology Undergraduate major in Materials Science and Engineering

Ceramics Laboratory III

Academic unit or major: Undergraduate major in Materials Science and Engineering
Instructor(s): Tetsuji Yano / Keigo Kamata / Toshiyuki Ikoma / Akira Yamaguchi / Yuta Kubota / Kazuki Okamoto / Sou Yasuhara / Kana Tomita / Takeshi Aihara
Class Format: Experiment (Face-to-face)
Media-enhanced courses: -
Day of week/Period (Classrooms): 5-8 Tue / 5-8 Fri
Class: -
Course Code: MAT.C352
Number of credits: 002
Course offered: 2024
Offered quarter: 4Q
Syllabus updated: Mar 14, 2025
Language: Japanese

Syllabus

Course overview and goals

Students will learn about experiments of dielectric material and catalysis.
In the former section, progressing both a preparation of ceramics sample and measurements of electric properties promotes understandings about experimental methods and electrical properties based on solid state physics in ceramics materials. The observed phenomena will be discussed from a viewpoint of crystal structure, fine structure, chemical composition, and density.
In the later section, after an explanation about the industrial processes using solid catalysts, students will experience an experiment about the synthesis and catalysis of solid materials. Learning about crystal polymorph and handling fine powder, and students understand about catalytic reaction and reaction kinetics.

Course description and aims

Learn about the fundamentals on the experiments concerning with dielectric and electric properties of ceramic materials, and catalyst.

Keywords

bulk ceramics, ferroelectrics, dielectric constant, electric conductivity, catalyst

Competencies

Specialist skills
Intercultural skills
Communication skills
Critical thinking skills
Practical and/or problem-solving skills

Class flow

All the experimental works will be done by group.

Course schedule/Objectives

	Course schedule	Objectives
Class 1	Basic lecture to conduct experiments Dielectrics 1：Weighting, mixing and calcination	Understanding the contents and significance of this experiment. Learning about the treatment of starting materials for synthesis.
Class 2	Dielectrics 2：Evaluation of calcined powder	Learning about evaluation method of calcined sample.
Class 3	Dielectrics 3：Molding and sintering	Learning about molding and sintering of powder.
Class 4	Dielectrics 4：Evaluation of density, and forming electrodes	Learning about density measurement and electrode forming method.
Class 5	Dielectrics 5：Evaluation of crystal structure and electrical properties	Learning about evaluation of crystal structure and electrical properties.
Class 6	Dielectrics 6：Measurement of the temperature dependence of dielectric constant	Learning about the phase transition of barium titanate.
Class 7	Dielectrics 7：Measurement of the temperature dependence of conductance	Learning about the phase transition of barium titanate.
Class 8	Catalyst 1：Synthesis of catalyst material	Learning about the synthesis method about MnO2.
Class 9	Catalyst 2：Characterization of prepared sample	Learning about an evaluation method of crystal structure in MnO2.
Class 10	Catalyst 3：Catalytic reaction	Learning about reaction kinetics.
Class 11	Additional experiment１	Carrying out additional experiment about dielectric material or catalyst.
Class 12	Additional experiment２	Carrying out additional experiment about dielectric material or catalyst.
Class 13	Additional experiment３	Carrying out additional experiment about dielectric material or catalyst.
Class 14	Additional experiment４	Carrying out additional experiment about dielectric material or catalyst.

Study advice (preparation and review)

To promote effective learnings, students are encouraged to take approximately 50 minutes for preparing the next class and another 50 minutes for reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.

Textbook(s)

The textbook will be provided via T2SCHOLA.

Reference books, course materials, etc.

Fundamental lecture course 1: Ceramics experiments; Uchida-rokaku-ho
Other documents will be provided.

Evaluation methods and criteria

Students are necessary to join and carry out all the experiments. Submissions about the proposed tasks is also needed to judge their knowledge on the experiments and ceramics.

Related courses

MAT.C202 ： Crystal and Phonon
MAT.C204 ： Kinetics of Chemical Reaction (Ceramics course)
MAT.C206 ： Ceramic Processing
MAT.C301 ： Crystal Chemistry (Ceramics course)
MAT.C305 ： Semiconductor Materials and Device
MAT.C306 ： Dielectric Materials Science

Prerequisites

Students are recommended to learn about the fundamental knowledge on ceramic materials in 1st or 2nd year.