Bulletin  of  Materials  Science

Volume  23,  No.  2,  April  2000

CONTENTS

 

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Cover:  Optical micrograph of a hexagonal growth spiral on the basal surface of a crystal. For details, see p. 132.

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Materials Synthesis

 

 

 

Microstructural features induced by spray forming of a ternary Pb–Sn–Sb alloy
                                                      V C Srivastava, Anish Upadhyaya and S N Ojha


73

 

 

Investigations on nucleation thermodynamical parameters of NdBa2Cu3O7–d (Nd123) crystallization by high temperature solution growth                         D P Paul, R Jayavel,
                                                                              C Subramanian and P Ramasamy



79

 

 

Magnetic Materials

 

 

 

Cadmium substituted high permeability lithium ferrite               S S Bellad, S C Watawe,
                                                                                  A M Shaikh and B K Chougule


83

 

 

Influence of Nd3+ substitution on thermoelectric power of Zn–Mg ferrite system

 

  B P Ladgaonkar, P N Vasambekar and A S Vaingankar  

87

 

 

Magnetocaloric effect in temperature-sensitive magnetic fluids               Kinnari Parekh,
                                                                                  R V Upadhyay and R V Mehta


91

 

 

Comparison of the irreversible thermomagnetic behaviour of some ferro- and ferrimagnetic systems                                      P S Anil Kumar, P A Joy and S K Date


97

 

 

Polymers

 

 

 

Development, structure and strength properties of PP/PMMA/FA blends

 

  Navin Chand and S R Vashishtha

103

 

 

Composites

 

 

 

Optimization of processing parameters for making alumina–partially stabilized zirconia laminated composites                                           S Deb and B V Radhakrishna Bhat


109

 

 

Quasicrystals

 

 

 

An algorithm for generating quasiperiodic patterns and their approximants

 

  E A Lord, K Ramakrishnan and S Ranganathan

119

 

 

Glass Ceramics

 

 

 

Application of design of experiment on electrophoretic deposition of glass-ceramic coating materials from an aqueous bath                                                Someswar Datta


125

 

 

Polytypic Materials

 

 

 

A combined optical, SEM and STM study of growth spirals on the polytypic cadmium iodide crystals     Rajendra Singh, S B Samanta, A V Narlikar and G C Trigunayat


131

 

 

Biomaterials

 

 

 

On the development of an apatitic calcium phosphate bone cement

 

  Manoj Komath, H K Varma and R Sivakumar

135

 

 

Thermal Properties

 

 

 

Thermal behaviour of hydroxides, hydroxysalts and hydrotalcites

 

  Parthasarathi Bera, Michael Rajamathi, M S Hegde and P Vishnu Kamath

141

 

 

Mechanical Properties

 

 

 

Systematic hardness studies on lithium niobate crystals

 

  K G Subhadra, K Kishan Rao and D B Sirdeshmukh

147

 

 

Instrumentation

 

 

 

A CCD area detector for X-ray diffraction under high pressure for rotating anode source

 

  Amar Sinha, Alka B Garg, V Vijayakumar, B K Godwal and S K Sikka

151

 

 

Radiation dosimetry by potassium feldspar            Arun Pandya, S G Vaijapurkar and
                                                                                                             P K Bhatnagar


155

 

 

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