Bulletin of Materials Science

Volume 28, No. 2, April 2005

CONTENTS

Cover: Typical bright field electron micrograph of Fe–12×5%Mn–5×5%Si–9%Cr–3×5%Ni alloy showing widely extended stacking faults. For details, see p. 88.

Alloys and Steels
Corrosion of steel structures in sea-bed sediment
Xiutong Wang, Jizhou Duan, Yan Li, Jie Zhang, Shide Ma and Baorong Hou	81
Effect of heat treatment on martensitic transformation in Fe–12×5%Mn–5×5%Si–9%Cr–3×5%Ni alloy
T Kirindi and M Dikici	87
Influence of thermomechanical aging on fatigue behaviour of 2014 Al-alloy
S Singh and D B Goel	91

Semiconductors
Growth and characterization of Hg_1–xCd_xTe epitaxial films by isothermal vapour phase epitaxy (ISOVPE)
Manju Malhotra, Madhukar Gautam, J K Radhakrishnan, Vinod Kapoor, Sudeep Verma, Upendra Kumar, Anand Kumar, Garima Gupta, Anshu Goyal and S Sitharaman	97

Ceramics and Glasses
Dispersion and rheological studies of Y–PSZ tape casting slurry
K G Vasantha Kumari, K Sasidharan, M Sapna and Raghu Natarajan	103
Role of dispersion conditions on grindability of yttria stabilized zirconia (YSZ) powders
S Ramanathan, K P Krishna Kumar, P K De and S Banerjee	109

Biomaterials
Development of calcium phosphate based apatite from hen’s eggshell
K Prabakaran, A Balamurugan and S Rajeswari	115

Nanomaterials
Preparation of nanocrystalline ferroelectric BaNb₂O₆ by citrate gel method
S P Gaikwad, Violet Samuel, Renu Pasricha and V Ravi	121

Composites
Microstructure and electrical conductivity of Al–SiC_p composites produced by spray forming process
V C Srivastava and S N Ojha	125

Fly Ash
Some studies on the reaction between fly ash and lime
A Basumajumdar, A K Das, N Bandyopadhyay and S Maitra	131

Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Materials
A comparative study of proton transport properties of metal(IV) tungstates and their organic derivatives
Heemanshu Patel, Alpana Parikh and Uma Chudasama	137

Surfactants
Adsorption and intercalation of anionic surfactants onto layered double hydroxides––XRD study
R Anbarasan, W D Lee and S S Im	145

Superconductors
Effect of annealing temperature on the structural–microstructural and electrical characteristics of thallium bearing HTSC films prepared by chemical spray pyrolysis technique
K K Verma, R S Tiwari and O N Srivastava	151
Superconductivity and electrical resistivity in alkali metal doped fullerides: Phonon mechanism
Dinesh Varshney, A Dube, K K Choudhary and R K Singh	155

Modelling Studies
Estimation of CE–CVM energy parameters from miscibility gap data
G Srinivasa Gupta, G Vamsi Madhav, A Pandey, B Nageswara Sarma and S Lele	173
Thermodynamic modelling of phase equilibria in Al–Ga–P–As system
S Acharya and J P Hajra	179