Ch 1 and 2 Flashcards
Composition
Chemical makeup of a material
Structure
Arrangements of atoms at different levels of detail
Synthesis
How materials are made
Processing
How materials are shaped
Stress
Force/Area
Strain
Change in length/original length
Crystalline
Atoms arranged in a periodic fashion
Amorphous
Atom arrangement that does not have long-range order
Single crystals
Crystalline materials consisting of a single crystal
Polycrystalline
Crystalline materials consisting of many grains or crystals
Atomic structure
0.1 nm, diamond-coated cutting tools, C-C covalent bonds are strong, hard, and wear resistant
Short-range order
0.1 to 1 nm, silica optical fibers, amorphous (only short-range order)
Long-range order
10 nm to 1 cm
Nanostructure
1-100 nm
Microstructure
0.1-100 micrometers