Resources Progress One of the key jobs in materials research is to understand the chemistry-microstructure-property relationship of a specific matter.This requires a comprehensive knowledge of thechemical composition, crystal structure and microstructurebesides the mechanical and/or physical properties.When a piece of material is available,the curiosity of human being often leads to questions such as "what"and "how".In order to answer these curiosities,a proper characterization of the materials is required,either chemically or physically.In this course,topics at an undergraduate level will cover X-ray diffraction,optical and electron microscopies,and the spectroscopy methods.Lectures will be linked to the contents in Materials Lab (1)and (2),where the techniques will be hopefully demonstrated and/or used by the student to study a material. Textbook:Yang Leng,Materials Characterization:Introduction to Microscopic and Spectroscopic Methods,Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH Co.KGaA,Boschstr.12,69469 Weinheim,Germany,2013 X-ray diffraction technique x-ray tube spots from x-rays ead screen crystalline solid lke DNA spot from X-ray beam photographic 22