Course Content (Syllabus)
Liquid crystals. Classification of liquid crystals, liquid crystalic phases. Properties, structure-properties correlation. Applications, liquid crystal displays.
Conducting polymers. Doping and the role of dopants. Conduction mechanism (solitons, polarons, bipolarons). Chemical and electrochemical synthesis. Physico-electrochemical properties and applications of conducting polymers.
Crystallography and crystal structure. Crystals properties, crystallographic systems.Structural determination of pure crystaline elements, systems of two atomic ingrediences, polyatomic systems.
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
Παραδόσεις Χημείας Υλικών, E. Κουτούλη-Αργυροπούλου, Μ. Λάλια-Καντούρη, Δ. Σαζού, Β. Ταγκούλης, Α. Χατζηδημητρίου, Άγις-Σάββας Δ. Γαρταγάνης, 2013