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Volume. 22, January-December 1999

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Vol.22, No.1, February 1999

Pages
Crystallographic data on axially compressed Kevlar 49 fibres — R. V. Iyer, Kalyani Vijayan, K. Sooryanarayana and T. N. Guru Row

1-7
On the polar reciprocity model for hot deformation characteristics of materials — S. V. S. Narayana Murty and B. Nageswara Rao

9-10
High quality crystal growth and characterization of organic nonlinear optical crystal: 4-dimethylamino-N-methyl-4-stilbazolium tosylate (DAST)— Junko Yabuzaki, Yoshinori Takahashi, Hiroaki Adachi, Yusuke Mori and Takatomo Sasaki
11-13
Effects of anisotropy and annealing on microhardness of InBiTe single crystals — G. R. Pandya, S. R. Bhavsar and P. H. Soni
15-16
High temperature compression testing and determination of warm working temperatrue for commerical purity aluminium — B. K. Rao, M. S. A. Khadar and K. Srinivasan
17-20
Creep activation energy of flow process in BiTeSe single crystals — C. F. Desai, P. H. Soni and S. R. Bhavsar
21-23
Studies on indentation fracture toughness on ceramic an ceramic composite using acoustic emission technique — A. K. Ray, G. Das, N. K. Mukhopadhyay, D. K. Bhattacharya, E. S. Dwarakadasa and N. Parida
25-32
Precipitation hardening in Al-Zn-Mg-AlO(p) composite — K. S. Kiran and K. Srinivasan
33-35
Comparative study of zirconia-mullite and alumina zirconia composites — N. C. Biswas and S. P. Chaudhuri
37-47
Microstructural and electrical characteristics of SiO2 doped ZnOBiO3 Varistors — R. Goel, A. Sil and H. R. Anand
49-57
Pyroelectricity in calcium substituted sodium bismuth titanate layer structured ferroelectric ceramics — P. S. Rama Sastry, G. S. Kumar, T. Bhimasankaram and G. Prasad
59-64
Powder XRD investigations on hydrocarbon mixtures — P. B. Shashikanth and P. B. V. Prasad
65-69
Vol.22, No.2, April 1999

SO solid state gas sensors: A review — K. Singh and S. S. Bhoga
71-83
Recovery characteristics of optical hydrogen sensor using Pd thin film: Behaviour of three-stage hydrogen desorption — Yoshiki Okuhara and Massasuke Takata
85-87
Influence of metal particles on the reduction properties of ceria based materials studied by TPR — G. Ranga Rao
89-94
Comparative study of adatom induced relaxations and energies for Si, Ge and carbon adsorption on a (2*1)Si(001) surface — U. P. Wad, A. V. Limaye, M. P. Gokhale, and S. B. Ogale
95-101
X-ray studies on microstructural characterization of tantalum substitued tungsten mixed molybdenum diselenide — Debashis Palit, S. K. Srivastava and B. K. Samantay Ray
103-108
Open and shrot circuit themally stimulated currents in ethyl cellulose (EC) polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) blend — P. K. Khare, J. M. Keller and S. C. Datt
109-113
Effect of hydroxyl content on the physical properties of calcium metaphosphate glasses — B. Karmakar, P. Kundu, Anup K. Chaudhuri, K. Annapurna, A. Kumar and R. N. Dwivedi
115-119
Rare earth fluorescence in NASICON type phosphate glass NaTiZnPO12 — G. Vijayaprakash, P. nachimuthu, M. Vithal and R. Jagannathan

121-127
Microscopic order parameter of two nematogenic compounds using X-rays — A. P. Divya, D. Revannasiddaiah, R. Somashekar and M. S. Madhava
129-132
Design and fabrication of liquid phase epitaxy system — R. Venkataraghavan, N. K. Udayashankar, Blasius Victor Rodrigues, K. S. R. K. Rao and H. L. Bhat
133-137
Vol. 22, No. 3, May 1999

Foreword
139
Porous materials: A case study of supramolecular organization in materials design — C. N. R. Rao
141-151
Materials response to high pressures — R. Chidambaram and Surinder M. Sharma
153-163
Novel synthesis methods for new materials in solid state chemistry — J. Etourneau
165-174
Disordering and reordering of mechanically milled superlattice alloys — Robert W. Cahn
175-180
In situ TEM observation of spontaneous alloying in nanometer sized particles — H. Mori and H. Yasuda
181-187
Friction and wear properties of quasi periodic material coatings — C. I. lang, D. Shechtman and E. Gonzalez
189-192
Soft solution processing in situ fabrication of morphology controlled advanced ceramic materials in low temperature solutions without firing — Masahiro Yoshimura, Kyoo Seung Han and Wojciech Suchanek
193-199
Sol-gel synthesis of hybrid materials — J. Livage
201-205
A high potential material zirconia — S. Somiya and T. Akiba
207-214
Mixed plutonium uranium carbide fuel in fast breeder test reactor — P. Rodriguez
215-220
Sol-emulsion-gel synthesis of ceramic particles — D. Ganguli
221-226
Direct observation of the interaction between vortices and dislocations in superconducting crystals by a cryo-Lorentz EM — Shigeo Horiuchi, Marco Cantoni, Tadamasa Tsuruta and Yoshio Matsui
227-231
Microstructure controls and their effects on the properties of BiSrCaCuO4 superconductors — K. Togano, H. Kumakura, H. Kitaguchi, H. Fujii, H. Miao, Y. Hishinuma, Y. Nemoto, J. Sato and T. Hasegawa
233-238
MOCVD grown homoepitaxial YBa2Cu3Ox thin films and its multilayers — H. Zama, N. Tanaka and T. Morishita
239-242
Novel ceramic substrates for high Tc superconductors — Asha M. John, P. K. Sajith, J. James, S. P. Pai and R. Pinto
243-249
Noise properties of swift heavy ion irradiated epitaxial thin films of YBCO — S. K. Arora, Ravi Kumar, D. Kanjilal, G. K. Mehta, S. Khatua, R. Pinto and A. K. Gupta
251-255
Superconducting and non-superconducting PrBa2Cu3O7 — Y. Nishihara, Z. Zou, J. Ye, K. Oka and H. Bando
257-263
Study of the impact of HgO addition and low field magnetic relaxation behaviour in granular high Tc superconductors — R. G. Sharma, S. Lahiry, A. Pandey and Dipten Bhattacharya
265-274
Evidence for supercooling across a vortex-matter phase transition: studies on CeRu2 and Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 — P Chaddah and S B Roy
275-278

Synthesis and properties of novel materials at high pressure and temperature-molecular dynamics simulation studies — S. L. Chaplot 

279-285
High-pressure high-temperature transitions in nanocrystalline yA!2O3, yFe2O3 and TiO2 — S. N. Vaidya
287-293
Materials synthesis and phase transitions under shock waves — Satish C. Gupta 
295-300
Properties of solids under high pressure-An electronic band structure approach — R. Asokamani and C. Ravi
301-305
Non-covalent chiral fibres in aqueous gels and their functionalization — Jiirgen-Hinrich Fuhrhop,Sonke Svenson, Christoph Bottcher, Otto Trager, Corinna Demoulin,
Peter Schnieder, Christian Messerschmidt, Laurent Ruhlmann and Jorg Zimmermann
307-312
Forces between colloidal droplets in the presence of a weak polyelectrolyte — John Philip, O. Mondain Monval, F. Leal-Calderon and J. Bibette
313-320
Alloying behaviour in nanocrystalline materials during mechanical alloying — S. K. Pabi, I Manna and B. S. Murty
321-327
Mono-dispersed single-wall carbon nanotubes formed in channels of zeolite crystal: Production, optical and electrical transport properties — Z. K. Tang, H. D. Sun, J. Wang, J. Chen and G. Li
329-333
A novel chemical route for the preparation of nanosized oxides, phosphates, vanadates, molybdates and tungstates using polymer precursors — P. Pramanik
335-339
Size quantization effects in optical and electrical properties of II-VI semiconductor films in nanocrystalline form — A. K. Pal
341-351
Modeling of diffusion and oxidation in two dimensions during silicon device processing — P. K. Singh and B. K. Das
353-362
Heteroepitaxial growth of III-V compound semiconductors for optoelectronic devices — T. Egawa, H. Ishikawa, T. Jimbo and M. Umeno
363-367
Isotope energy shift of luminescence in hydrogen- and deuterium-terminated porous silicon — T. Matsumoto, S. V. Nair and Y. Masumoto
369-376
Optical properties of tetragonal germanium nanocrystals deposited by the cluster-beam evaporation technique: New light emitting material for future — S Nozaki, S Sato, S Rath, H Ono and H Morisaki
377-381
Rapid processing of low-cost, high-efficiency silicon solar cells — A. Rohatgi, P. Doshi, A. Ebong, S. Narasimha, T. Krygowski and J. Moschner
383-390
Enhanced formation of low-resistivity TiSi2 contacts for deep submicron devices — L. J. Chen, S. L. Cheng and S. M. Chang
391-397
Photonic Materials and Nonlinear Optical Materials Development of new NLO borate crystals — Y. Mori and T. Sasaki
399-403
Quasi-phase-matched second harmonic generation device in Mg-doped LiNbO3 and its application to
high-density optical disk system — Y. Kitaoka, K. Mizuuchi, T. Yokoyama, K. Yamamoto, K. Narumi and M. Kato

405-411
Periodically domain-inverted LiNbO3 for waveguide quasi-phase matched nonlinear optic wavelength
conversion devices — M. Fujimura, T. Suhara and H. Nishihara
413-420
Linear and nonlinear optical properties of organic crystals: MBANP and its derivatives — R. T. Bailey, F. R. Cruickshank, S. Lochran, D. Pugh, J. N. Sherwood, P. J. Langle and J. D. Wallis
421-430
Growth and characterization of new oxide and fluoride crystals for optical applications — K. Shimamura, S. L. Baldochi, Na Mujilatu, K. Nakano and T. Fukuda
431-437
Second-harmonic generation in distributed feedback ferroelectric liquid crystal cells — H. Hoshi, D-H Chung, K. Ishikawa and H. Takezoe
439-441
Photoinduced fabrication of complex surface relief structures on azobenzene functionalized polymers — J. Kumar, L. Lal, Nirmal K. Viswanathan,S. Bian, S. Balasubramanian,  D. Y. Kim and S. K. Tripathy
443-445
Influence of counter ion on polyaniline and polypyrrole — D. C. Trivedi
447-455
Some new structural and electronic characteristics of quasicrystals — O. N. Srivastava, R. S. Tiwari,N. P. Lalla, R. K. Mandal and M. A. Shaz

457-463
Structure and tribological property of B2-based approximants — Chuang Dong, Li-Ming Zhang, Qing-Gang Zhou, Hui-Chen Zhang, Jean-Marie Dubois, Qiu-Hua Zhang, Yao-Chun Fu, Fei-Zhou He and Fei Ge
465-472
Electron microscopy study of striation contrast in Al-Cu-Co-Si decagonal quasicrystals — N. K. Mukhopadhyay,  G. V. S. Sastry and G. C. Weatherly
473-478
Interfaces in icosahedrally related structures: problems and prospects — R. K. Mandal
479-484
Contributions of muon spin rotation/relaxation/resonance to the understanding of problems in magnetism-Current and future — K. Nagamine
485-493
Nanocrystalline materials for high temperature soft magnetic applications: A current prospectus — M. E. McHenry, M. A. Willard, H. Iwanabe, R. A. Sutton, Z. Turgut, A. Hsiao and D. E. Laughl
495-501
Evidence for selective resputtering as the growth mechanism of pair-order anisotropy in amorphous TbFe films — Vincent G Harris and Taras Pokhil
503-508
Recent advances in 2: 17 and 3 : 29 permanent magnet materials — K. V. S. Rama Rao, G. Markandeyulu, K. G. Suresh, V. R. Shah, U. V. Varadaraju, M. Venkatesan, M. Q. Huang, K. Sirisha, M. E. McHenry and V. G. Harris
509-517

Self-organized growth of In(Ga)As/GaAs quantum dots and their opto-electronic device applications — P. Bhattacharya, K. Kamath, J. Phillips and D. Klotzkin

519-529
Quantum dots fabricated by selective area MOVPE and their application to single electron devices —Takashi Fukui, F. Nakajima, K. Kumakura and J. Motohisa
531-535
Self-assembled quantum dots: The route to novel optical, electronic, magnetic and superconducting properties — S. Bandyopadhyay
537-542
InGaAs quantum disk: Fabrication via self-organization and spectroscopies — H. Kamada, J. Temmyo, E. Kuramochi, H. Ando and T. Tamamura
543-552
Chemical bond manipulation for nanostructure integration on wafer scale — K. Prabhakaran and T. Ogino

553-562
Semiconductor quantum dots: Theory and phenomenology — Vijay A. Singh,V. Ranjan and Manish Kapoor

563-569
Environmental effects in iron aluminides — R. Balasubramaniam
571-579
Evolution and stability of texture during thermomechanical processing of Ti-24Al-llNb alloy —
Satyam Suwas and R. K. Ray
581-584
Microstructures in Al-rich y-TiAl strained in the domain of temperature of flow stress anomalies — Fabienne Gregori and Patrick Veyssiere
585-592
Novel oxygen sensor using hot spot on ceramic rod — M. Takata, Y. Noguchi, Y. Kurihara, T. Okamoto and B. Huybrechts
593-600
Characterization of thin films using heavy ion beams — H. Timmers, R. G. Elliman and T. R. Ophel
601-606
X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy: A powerful tool for a better characterization of thin film materials — A. Levasseur, P. Vinatier and D. Gonbeau

607-614
Effect of etchant concentration and defects on pyramid formation in TMAH etched silicon — W. K. Choi, J. T. L. Thong, Y. Bai, Puneet Newaskar and P. Luo

615-621
Synthesis and characterization of surface-modified and organic-functionalized MCM-41 type ordered mesoporous materials — S. C. Laha, P. Mukherjee and R. Kumar

623-626
Key factors in tissue engineering —Yoshito Ikada
627-631
Role of platelets in blood-biomaterial interactions — G. H. R. Rao and Thomas Chandy
633-639
Hybrid bioceramics with metals and polymers for better biomaterials — T. Kameyama
641-646
On the relevance and requirements of biomaterials — R. Sivakumar
647-655
Composite materials for aerospace applications — P. D. Mangalgiri
657-664
Interfacial energy issues in ceramic particulate reinforced metal matrix composites — Brij K. Dhindaw
665-669
Transient thermal process induced by swift heavy ions: Defect annealing and defect creation in Fe and Ni — Ch. Dufour, Z. G. Wang, E. Paumier and M. Toulemonde
671-677

Modifications induced by swift heavy ions — C. Trautmann
679-686
Analytical techniques with a cyclotron on polymers — M. P. De Jong, M. J. A. De Voigt,L. J. van Ijzendoorn and H. H. Brongersma

687-690
Structural investigation of polydiacetylenes: A variable temperature solid state 13C CP/MAS NMR study Ashok L. Cholli and Daniel J. Sandman

691-695
In situ TEM observation of long range ordering via short range order in Cu3Pt — N. Kuwano, N. Chiwata and K. Oki

697-700
High resolution electron microscopy of alloys G. K. Dey and S. Banerjee
701-708
Study of diffusion and related phenomena by electron probe microanalyser — K. Bhanumurthy and G. B. Kale
709-715
Micro-parameters and micro-characteristics related to the formation of £-martensite in Fe-based shape memory alloys — Bohong Jiang and Xuan Qi
717-721
Creation and motion of dislocations and fracture in metal and silicon crystals — Masao Doyama
723-728
Device simulation and fabrication of field effect solar cells — Kaori Miyazaki, Nobuyuki Matsuki,Hiroyuki Shinno, Hiroshi Fujioka, Masaharu Oshima and Hideomi Koinuma
729-733
Can ab initio simulation really predict properties of materials prior to actually carrying out the experiments? — Yoshiyuki Kawazoe
735-739
Vol. 22, No. 4, June 1999

System Cu-Rh-O: Phase diagram and thermodynamic properties of ternary oxides CuRhO2 — K. T. Jacob, T. H. Okabe, T. Uda and Y. Waseda
741-749
Mossbauer and XRD studies on the effect of doping iron in KCaY (PO4)2 — T. N. Sairam, G. V. Narasimha Rao and B. Viswanathan
751-755
Studies of structural and dielectric properties of BasBiTi3Nb7O3o ceramics — H. Sharma, Kiran Kumari and S. N. Giri
757-759
GMR in Ni/Cu multilayers: an electronic structure study — S. K. Ghosh, H. G. Salunke, G. P. Das, A. K Grover and M. K .Totlani
761-763
Microstructure and magnetic properties of zinc ferrite thin films produced by pulsed laser deposition — D. Ravinder
765-768
Oxidation of MoSi2 and MoSi2-based materials Sheela — K. Ramasesha and K. Shobu
769-773
Electrochemical synthesis of Tl-based high Tc single-phase superconductor thin films — L. A. Ekal, N. V. Desai and S. H. Pawar
775-778
Electrical properties of SiO2-doped sodium metavanadate sintered discs — B. V. Bahuguna Saradhi, G. Prasad, G. S. Kumar and T. Bhimasankaram
779-783
A matrix isolation FTIR investigation of laser-ablated uranium oxide in argon and nitrogen matrices — K. Sankaran, K. Sundararajan and K. S. Viswanathan
785-790
I2C5+ radiation effects in SR-86 track recording polymer — H. S. Virk, G. S. Randhawa,
R. Thangaraj, D. K. Avasthi and K. Asokan
791-795
Studies on the ion-beam modifications in ethylene diamine sulphate — E. Venkateshwar Rao and M. Ramakrishna Murthy
797-800
Effect of addition of polycarbonate on sheared flow of red mud-filled isotactic polypropylene Navin Chand and S A R Hashmi
801-804
Macrocrystalline parameters in native and acid-modified starches — H. Somashekarappa,R. Somashekar, Vasudeva Singh and S. Z. Ali
805-810
Characterization of reinforced syntactic foams using ultrasonic imaging technique — C. S. Karthikeyan, C. R. L. Murthy, S. Sankaran and Kishore
811-815
Nucleation studies in supersaturated aqueous solutions of KH2P04 doped with KBr and K2Cr207 — C. Mahadevan, G. Janiland Angel, V. Anton Sophana and V. Umayorubhagan
817-820
Nucleation studies in supersaturated aqueous solutions of urea and thiourea doped with inorganic dopants — J. M. Kavitha, K. Seethalakshmi, C. Mahadevan and Y. Premila Rachelin
821-826
Vol. 22, No. 5, August 1999

Foreword
827
Computer modelling and simulation in materials science — N. Ramakrishnan and P. Ramarao
829-834
Crystal growth study using combination of molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo methods — Masao Doyama
835-842
Computer simulation studies of Ar clusters — P. Padma Kumar and K. J. Rao
843-850
Integrated computational chemistry system for catalysts design — S. Salai Cheettu Ammal, Seiichi Takami, Momoji Kubo and Akira Miyamoto
851-861
The ubiquitous icosahedral Bi2 in boron chemistry — E. D. Jemmis and M. M. Balakrishnarajan
863-867
A novel a-Si: H solar cell designed by two-dimensional device simulation — Kaori Miyazaki, Hiroshi Fujioka, Masaharu Oshima and Hideomi Koinuma
869-872
Calculation of friction coefficient of a solid-liquid interface via a non-equilibrium molecular dynamics
simulation — Sundaram Balasubramanian and Christopher J. Mundy
873-876
Computational condensed matter physics — B. K. Godwal
877-884
Design of hydrogen storage alloys with the aid of molecular orbital method — H. Yukawa, M. Takagi and M. Morinaga
885-890
Numerical simulations of fracture initiation in ductile solids under model, dynamic loading — R. Narasimhan and S. Basu
891-900
Can ab initio simulation really predict properties of materials prior to experimental — Yoshiyuki Kawazoe
901-904
Chitin and chitosan fibres: A review — M. N. V. Ravi Kumar
905-915
Magnetization and initial permeability studies of Nd3+ substituted Zn-Mg ferrite system — B. P. Ladgaonkar, C. B. Kolekar and A. S. Vaingankar
917-920
Optical and electrical properties of zinc oxide films prepared by spray pyrolysis — Benny Joseph, K. G. Gopchandran, P. K. Manoj, Peter Koshy and V. K. Vaidyan
921-926
Photoelectrochemical investigation on spray deposited n-CdIn2S4 thin films — K. Y. Rajpure, V. L. Mathe and C. H. Bhosale
927-931
Fatigue crack growth behaviour of gamma base titanium aluminides under different loading conditions — R. Gnanamoorthy and Y. Mutoh
933-936
Vol 22, No. 6, October 1999

A study of orthorhombic phases in aluminium-transition metal alloys — T. R. Anantharaman
937-945
Transmission electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction studies of quantum wells — D. V. Sridhara Rao, K. Muraleedharan, G. K. Dey, S. K. Haider, G. Bhagavannarayan, P. Banerji, D. Pal and D. N. Bose
947-951
Thickness dependent electrical properties of CdO thin films prepared by spray pyrolysis method — L. C. S. Murthy and K. S. R. K. Rao
953-957
Distribution of lead in lead-containing aluminium alloys obtained by liquid phase co-spray forming technique — Yu. Fuxiao, E. S. Dwarakadasa and S. Ranganathan
959-963
Synthesis and characterization of Eu3+ activated hexagonal ABaGd(PO4)2 (A+ = Li, Na, or K) phosphates — A. M. Band, S. J. Dhoble and R. B. Pode
965-969
Crystal growth of cesium triborate, CsB3O5 by Kyropoulos technique — Yoshio Kagebayashi, Yusuke Mori and Takatomo Sasaki
971-973
Ferroelectric phase transition inteasRTisNbyOso [R = Nd, Eu, Gd] ceramics — R. N. P. Choudhary, S. R. Shannigrahi and A. K. Singh
975-979
Vacancy-induced electronic states in substoichiometric thin films and powders-A soft X-ray emission study — B. S. Acharya, Rajeev, L. D. Pradhan, B. B. Nayak and Pushparani Mishra
981-986
Structural and magnetic study of nitrided Co74Fe8B]2Si6 and Co74Fe4Mn4Bi2Si6 ribbons — F Kail, H. Atmani, L. Chahed and N. Larguet
987-990
Magnetic properties of nanocomposites of mixed oxides of iron and chromium synthesized under different oxidative environments — Rashi Mathur, D. R. Sharma, S. R. Vadera and N. Kumar
991-997
Influence of phase transformation in Pd hydride on the recovery characteristics of optical hydrogen sensors — Y. Okuhara, Y. Imai, Y. Noguchi and M. Takata
999-1001
Investigation of electrical conduction in poly vinyl formal — P. K. Khare, R. K. Pandey and P. L. Jain
1003-1008
Dynamics of impact of sphere on flat surfaces of polymer matrix composites — Manish Roy
1009-1012
Vol. 22, No. 7, December 1999

Decomposition behaviour of Kevlar 49 fibres: Part I — R. V. Iyer and Kalyani Yijayan
1013-1023
Silica fibre-composites obtained using long-chain carboxylic acid as templates — L. Sudheendra and A. R. Raju
1025-1028
Effect of corrosive medium on fatigue crack growth behaviour and fracture in high martensite dual phase steel — K. V. Sudhakar, Asim Bag, E. S. Dwarakadasa and K. K. Ray
1029-1036
Study on steel corrosion in different seabed sediments — Yantao Li and Baorong Hou
1037-1040
Simulation Studies of Materials On the specific heat of Al-Si and Al-Ge alloys-A simulation study — P. Murugan and K. Ramachandran
1041-1046
Effect of CuO addition in Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-0 and Y-Ba-Cu-O ceramics — D. R. Mishra and P. N. Dheer
1047-1053
Optical properties of (1 - x - y)B2O3-xLi2O-yMCl2 (M = Cd, Zn) glasses —P. S. Vijoy and M. Abdul Khadar
1055-1059
Microhardness study of(l-x-y)(B2O3)-.x(Li2O)-y(MCl2), (M = Cd, Zn) glasses — P. S. Vijoy,M. Abdul Khadar and Cyriac Joseph
1061-1065
Thermal treatment of the precipitated solid material (PSM) from the waste black liquor (WBL) —A. M. A. Nada, E. M. A. Hamzawy, H. I. Omara and S. E. Gohary
1067-1072
Subject index
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Author index
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