Industrial materials

2025/2026

Programme:

Applied Physics, First Cycle

Year:

2 year

Semester:

first

Kind:

optional

ECTS:

Language:

slovenian

Course director:

Assoc. Prof. Boštjan Genorio

Lecturer (contact person):

Assoc. Prof. Boštjan Genorio

Hours per week – 1. semester:

Lectures

Seminar

Tutorial

Lab

Enrollment in the current school year.

1. Introductions. Materials in technique. Basic groups of materials. Characteristic properties of materials. Criteria for material selection. Perspectives in material development.

2. Interatomic bonds and structure of matter. Material properties according to the bond type, strength and crystal structure. Properties of crystal structures. Nomenclature. Molecular structures.

3. Phase equilibrium. Phase rules. Binary and ternary phase diagrams. Diagram Fe-C. Stable and metastable structures.

4. Metals. Influence of composition and technology on metal properties. Mechanisms and techniques of strengthening of alloys. Influence of defects. Tempering and relaxation of steel.

5. Polymers and co-polymers. Degree of polymerization, mole mass, tactics, ramification, entanglement, crystallinity, amorphism. Temperature of glass transition. Strengthening of polymers. Creeping. Bonding materials, glues, coatings, composites, mixtures, alloys.

6. Ceramics. General properties. Structure of silicate ceramics. Classical and modern technical ceramics.
Fragile breaking and strengthening of ceramics. Functional and engineering ceramics.

7. Glass. Composition and properties. Glass formers and glass modification. Viscosity and deformation of glass. Glazes and enamels.

8. Composites. Principles of material strengthening.
Polymers/glass fibers.

9. Cements and concrete. Cement materials. Coagulation processes and concrete properties.
Modified and strengthened cements.

10. Decay of materials. Principles of corrosion. High-temperature decay. Principles of material protection.

11. Nanomaterials.

Materials Science and Engineering:; 9th edition, - 2015; William D. Callister, Jr., David G. Rethwisch
The Science and Engineering of Materials: , 6th edition, - 2011, Donald R. Askeland, Pradeep P. Fulay, Wendelin J. Wright

Knowledge and understanding of basic properties of materials.

Knowledge and understanding:

Selection of materials in construction work, knowledge of properties of products made of different materials.

Lectures, tutorials, demonstration experiments.

Written exam
5 - 10, a student passes the exam if he is graded from 6 to 10

(1) Strmcnik, D.; Castelli, I. E.; Connell, J. G.; Haering, D.; Zorko, M.; Martins, P.; Lopes, P. P.; Genorio, B.; Østergaard, T.; Gasteiger, H. A.; Maglia, F.; Antonopoulos, B. K.; Stamenkovic, V. R.; Rossmeisl, J.; Markovic, N. M. Electrocatalytic Transformation of HF Impurity to H2 and LiF in Lithium-Ion Batteries. Nat. Catal. 2018, 1 (4), 255–262. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41929-018-0047-z.

(2) Nosan, M.; Löffler, M.; Jerman, I.; Kolar, M.; Katsounaros, I.; Genorio, B. Understanding the Oxygen Reduction Reaction Activity of Quasi-1D and 2D N-Doped Heat-Treated Graphene Oxide Catalysts with Inherent Metal Impurities. ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2021, 4 (4), 3593–3603. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.1c00026.

(3) Ručigaj, A.; Connell, J. G.; Dular, M.; Genorio, B. Influence of the Ultrasound Cavitation Intensity on Reduced Graphene Oxide Functionalization. Ultrason. Sonochem. 2022, 90 (October). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultsonch.2022.106212.

(4) Nosan, M.; Pavko, L.; Finšgar, M.; Kolar, M.; Genorio, B. Improving Electroactivity of N-Doped Graphene Derivatives with Electrical Induction Heating. ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2022, 5 (8), 9571–9580. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.2c01184.

(5) Pavko, L.; Gatalo, M.; Đukić, T.; Ruiz-Zepeda, F.; Surca, A. K.; Šala, M.; Maselj, N.; Jovanovič, P.; Bele, M.; Finšgar, M.; Genorio, B.; Hodnik, N.; Gaberšček,