Total Hours: 48Credits: 3Assessment: Quiz + ReportI. Course OverviewThis course required graduate course covers principles, methods, standards, and skills for academic and degree theses.Topics:1. Literature search and databases (2 h)2. Reading and extracting ideas (2 h)3. Topic selection and structure (2 h)4. Patent writing and search (2 h)5. Academic English writing (2 h)6. Writing norms and a...

Associate Professor

Yinguo Xiao

Total Hours: 48Credits: 3Assessment: Module quizzes + Written ExamI. Course OverviewOrganic optoelectronic materials and devices have formed a new discipline: organic optoelectronics. With continuous research and industrial breakthroughs, they have been applied in semiconductor, biological, and energy industries.This course systematically covers classification, history, state-of-the-art, and co...

Professor

Hong Meng

Total Hours: /Credits: /Assessment: /I. Course OverviewCourse Objectives: This course aims to provide students with a solid understanding of general laboratory safety knowledge and basic safe operating procedures. Students will learn to recognize the characteristics, phenomena, and causes of various safety issues in research and teaching laboratories, as well as the principles and measures for ...

Assistant Professor

Zhaolong Chen

Total Hours: 48Credits: 3Assessment: Quiz + PresentationI. Course OverviewThis course systematically covers the design, synthesis, characterization, and applications of 2D conjugated polymers. It supports graduate research in materials and devices and develops international vision and innovation.II. Detailed SyllabusSelf-compiled lecture notes1. Introduction2. C=N Crystalline Framework Material...

Assistant Professor

Mingchao WANG

Total Hours: /Credits: /Assessment: Assignments + Group projectI. Course ObjectiveMaster the core concepts of AI for Materials and the research frontiers in materials science; understand the technical paradigm of the interdisciplinary field of AI + Materials.Grasp the key principles of preparation, characterization, and performance testing for three major material systems: new energy materials,...

Assistant Professor

Dewu LIN

Total Hours: /Credits: /Assessment: /I. Course OverviewThe objective of this course is to systematically introduce the design, synthesis, characterization, and functional applications of emerging functional porous materials. Grounded in systematic theoretical knowledge and supplemented by illustrations, diagrams, and detailed experimental data, the course is suitable for graduate students prepa...

Assistant Professor

Mingchao WANG

Total Hours: 48Credits: 3Assessment: ExaminationI. Course IntroductionThis graduate course focuses on material behavior under physical fields, covering electrical, magnetic, optical, and thermal properties:· Conduction: ionic/electronic conductivity, mobility· Dielectrics: polarization, permittivity, loss, breakdown· Ferroelectricity/piezoelectricity· Magnetism: classification, ferromagnetism, ...

Assistant Professor

Hao PAN

Total Hours: 48Credits: 3Assessment: Course PaperI. Course OverviewComputational materials simulation is a key branch of materials science, integrating condensed matter physics, materials physics, theoretical chemistry, mechanics, and computer science. It reveals structure–property relationships at the microscopic level and enables rational material design from atomic and molecular scales. Thi...

Associate Professor

Guohua Chen

Total Hours: 48Credits: 3Assessment: Presentation + Course PaperI. Course OverviewThis course systematically introduces nanomaterials and devices: size effects, 0D/1D/2D structures, synthesis, characterization, and applications in electronics, optoelectronics, magnetism, catalysis, energy, environment, and biomedicine. It trains students to analyze device mechanisms, discuss frontiers, and comm...

School of Advanced Materials

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Total Hours: 48Credits: 3Assessment: Written ExamI. Course IntroductionThis course builds a multi‑scale characterization framework from atomic to macro levels, focusing on structure–composition–defects–electronic states–dynamics–performance. It covers electron microscopy (SEM/TEM/STEM/EELS), scanning probe microscopy (AFM/STM), X‑ray diffraction, XPS/Raman, ARPES, transport measurements,...

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Total Hours: 48Credits: 3Assessment: Open‑book Exam + PresentationI. Course OverviewMaterials are the foundation of modern technology. This course covers synthesis principles and techniques for ceramics, metals, polymers, and composites, with emphasis on extreme‑condition synthesis.Topics include:1. Overview, classification, and progress of materials2. Crystallography, thermodynamics, and kin...

School of Advanced Materials

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Total Hours: 48Credits: 3Assessment: Closed-book ExamI. Course OverviewThis course targets materials science, microelectronics, optical engineering, and nanotechnology. It systematically covers core micro/nano fabrication technologies and applications in chip manufacturing, including optical lithography (laser direct writing, DUV, EUV), electron-beam lithography, focused ion beam processing, na...

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Total Hours: 32Credits: 3Assessment: Closed-book ExamI. Course OverviewNanomaterials are among the most promising materials of the 21st century, with applications in IT, new energy, biomedicine, and environmental protection. This course provides fundamentals, frontiers, and applications, emphasizing synthesis, characterization, property tuning, and device development. It fosters innovative thin...

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Total Hours: 36Credits: 2Assessment: Themed PresentationI. Course OverviewThis course delivers cutting‑edge, cross‑disciplinary content via expert lectures to make up textbook delays. Topics include: 1. Electrochemical energy storage; 2. PEM fuel cells and water electrolysis; 3. Single‑atom catalysis; 4. MOF separation membranes; 5. Solar photocatalysis; 6. AI in materials science; 7. Perovs...

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Total Hours: 48Credits: 3Assessment: Comprehensive PaperI. Course OverviewSpectroscopy is an essential materials characterization technique that provides rich information on structure, composition, energy bands, etc. The essence of spectroscopy is the interaction between electromagnetic waves and matter; different interaction mechanisms lead to various spectroscopic methods. This course deepens...

School of Advanced Materials

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Total Hours: 48Credits: 3Assessment: In-class Quizzes + Final PresentationI. Course IntroductionThis course systematically explores core knowledge and cutting-edge technologies in carbon nanomaterials, and introduces the key role of artificial intelligence in new material discovery and applications. It provides graduate students with solid theoretical foundations and practical guidance.Objectiv...

School of Advanced Materials

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