The main objective of the course is to impart an in-depth knowledge of material characterization by all the conventional well established techniques used worldwide. The course provides understanding on the material characterization, having main focus on polymeric techniques, chromatography and Spectroscopy.
- Understand different characterization techniques.
- Apply appropriate analytical techniques for a particular material organic/inorganic/nanomaterial/polymer etc.
- Instrumental Analysis
- Qualitative analysis
- Genesis of instrumental analysis, hyphenated techniques
- Polymeric Techniques: Rheology Techniques, Molecular weight determination;
- Thermal Techniques: Thermo Gravimetry (TG), Differential Thermal Analysis (DTA), and
- Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC)
- Chromatographic Techniques: Gas Chromatography (GC), High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC), Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC), Ion chromatography
- Spectroscopy: Ultra Violet-Visible Spectroscopy UV-VIS, Infra-Red spectroscopy (IR), Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), Mass spectroscopy, Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (AAS)
- XRD and SEM techniques, Sensitivity studies
