Bulletin  of  Materials  Science

Volume  25,  No.  2,  April 2002

CONTENTS


Cover:  Photomicrograph of undecalcified PMMA section stained with Stevenal's blue and counter stained with van Gieson acid picrofuschin after 6 weeks post implantation of HA granules in the tibial cortical defect. For details, see p. 150.


Materials Synthesis
Preparation of high purity tellurium by zone refining

N R Munirathnam, D S Prasad, Ch Sudheer, A J Singh and T L Prakash

79
Photoelectronic properties of HgI2 crystals for nuclear radiation detection

S L Sharma and H N Acharya

85

Superconductors

Superconducting YBa2Cu3O7–d  thick film (Tc(0) = 92 K) on a newly developed perovskite ceramic substrate

S U K Nair, P R S Warriar and J  Koshy

95

Magnetic Materials

Non-destructive evaluation of defects in ferromagnetic plates using a sensitive 
magnetic sensor based on second harmonic response of superconducting Bi1.6Pb0.4Sr2Ca2Cu3O10+
d  pellet

Abhijit Ray and T K Dey

101

Steels and Alloys

Fretting fatigue in AISI 1015 steel

R Gnanamoorthy and R Rosi Reddy

109

Sols and Gels

Rheological properties of boehmite sols during ageing at room temperature (30 ± 1°C) under closed condition

M K Naskar, M Chatterjee and D Ganguli

115

Ceramic Materials

Sintering of nano crystalline a  silicon carbide doping with aluminium nitride

M S Datta, A K Bandyopadhyay and B Chaudhuri

121

Evaluation of thermal shock resistance of cordierite honeycombs

Rathindra Nath Das, C D Madhusoodana, P K Panda and Kiyoshi Okada

127
Synthesis, structure and characterization of ceramic Ca4Bi2Ti4Nb6O30

H Sharma, Kiran Kumari, L S Singh and R N P Choudhary

133

Composites

Analysis of filler--fibre interaction in fly ash filled short fibre--epoxy composites using ultrasonic NDE

S M Kulkarni, D Anuradha, C R L Murthy and Kishore

137

Biomaterials

Bone growth response with porous hydroxyapatite granules in a critical sized lapine tibial-defect model

Annie John, S Abiraman, H K Varma, T V Kumari and P R Umashankar

141

Catalysts

Promoting effect of CeO2 on cyclohexanol conversion over CeO2--ZnO mixed oxide materials prepared by amorphous citrate process

Braja Gopal Mishra and G Ranga Rao

155

Thin Films

Carbonaceous alumina films deposited by MOCVD from aluminium acetylacetonate: 
a spectroscopic ellipsometry study

M P Singh, G Raghavan, A K Tyagi and S A Shivashankar

163

Paints

A study on the behaviour of M-type barium hexagonal ferrite based microwave absorbing paints

M R Meshram, Nawal K Agrawal, Bharoti Sinha and P S Misra

169

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