Crystal Growth

Growth features of ammonium hydrogen d-tartrate single crystals

G Sajeevkumar, R Raveendran, B S Remadevi and 
Alexander Varghese Vaidyan

323

On the growth of calcium tartrate tetrahydrate single crystals

X Sahaya Shajan and C Mahadevan

327

Bridgman growth and defects of Nd³⁺ : Sr₃Ga₂Ge₄O₁₄ laser crystals

Jiaxuan Ding, Anhua Wu and Jiayue Xu

333

X-ray analysis of 2-aniline benzo(2,3-b) cyclopentane-1,3-dione

Rajnikant, Dinesh, Mousmi, M B Deshmukh and Anshu Sawhney

337

Alloys and Steels

Corrosion behaviour, microstructure and phase transitions of Zn-based alloys

A K Yildiz and M Kaplan

341

Oxidation behaviour of the near a-titanium alloy IMI 834

K V Sai Srinadh and Vakil Singh

347

Electrode Materials

Oxidative leaching of chromium from layered double hydroxides: Mechanistic studies

A V Radha and P Vishnu Kamath

355

Nanomaterials

Low temperature Mössbauer studies on magnetic nanocomposites

K A Malini, M R Anantharaman and Ajay Gupta

361

Glasses

Synthesis of Er³⁺ and Er³⁺ : Yb³⁺ doped sol--gel derived silica glass and studies on 
their optical properties

Dipankar Mandal, H D Banerjee, M L N Goswami and H N Acharya

367

_{Thermal Properties}

Effective thermal conductivity of real two-phase systems using resistor model with 
ellipsoidal inclusions

Jagjiwanram and Ramvir Singh

373

_{Mechanical Properties}

Stone fragmentation by ultrasound

S K Shrivastava and Kailash

383

Microstructure evolution and fracture behaviour for electron beam welding 
of Ti--6Al--4V

Wu Huiqiang, Feng Jicai and He Jingshan

387

_{Surfaces and Interfaces}

Mixing induced by swift heavy ion irradiation at Fe/Si interface

Veenu Sisodia and I P Jain

393