Bulletin  of  Materials  Science

Volume  23,  No.  6,  December  2000

CONTENTS

 

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Cover: TEM of zirconia sintered at 1400°C for 2 h. For details, see p. 457.

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Material Synthesis

 

Hydrothermal synthesis of fine oxide powders 

 

Shigeyuki

Somiya

and Rustom Roy

453

 

 

Microwave synthesis of electrode materials for lithium batteries                   Harish Bhat,

B P Chakravarthy, P A Ramakrishnan, A Levasseur and K J Rao


461

 

 

Room temperature synthesis of colloidal platinum nanoparticles

G Sarala Devi and V J Rao

 
467

Semiconductors

 

Temperature dependence of current–voltage characteristics of Au/n-GaAs epitaxial Schottky diode

R Singh, S K Arora, Renu Tyagi, S K Agarwal and D Kanjilal

 

471

Superconductors

 

Investigations on Tl-2223 thin films fabricated through ultrasonic spray pyrolysis under oxygen deficient conditions                                           H K Singh and O N Srivastava

 
475

Oxide Ceramics

 

Effect of HIPing on conductivity and impedance measurements of DyBi5Fe2Ti3O18 ceramics                                                   N V Prasad, G Prasad, Mahendra Kumar,

                                    S V Suryanarayana, T Bhimasankaram and G S Kumar



483

 

 

Thermal expansion behaviour of barium and strontium zirconium phosphates

P Srikari Tantri, K Geetha, A M Umarji and Sheela K Ramasesha


491

Phase Transitions

 

Influence of strontium on the cubic to ordered hexagonal phase transformation in barium magnesium niobate                                                         M Thirumal and A K Ganguli


495

Glasses

 

Oxynitride glasses—An overview                                                                         T Das

499

 

 

Spectroscopic and transport studies of Cu2+ ion doped in (40–x)Li2OxLiF–60Bi2O3 glasses                                                                  D Sreenivasu and V Chandramouli

 
509

Cements

 

Cation exchange applications of synthetic tobermorite for the immobilization and solidification of cesium and strontium in cement matrix

O P Shrivastava and Rashmi Shrivastava



515

 

 

Resistance to freezing and thawing of mortar specimens made from sulpho­aluminate–belite cement                                                                           I Janotka and L’ Krajči

 
521

Polymers

 

Effect of doping on TSD relaxation in cellulose acetate films

P K Khare, P L Jain and R K Pandey

 
529

 

 

50 MeV lithium ion beam irradiation effects in poly vinylidene fluoride (PVDF) polymer                                                                        A K Shrivastava and H S Virk


533

Mechanical Properties

 

Pure mechanical wear loss measurement in corrosive wear

Yanliang Huang, Xiaoxia Jiang and Sizuo Li

 
539

 

 

Subject index

543

 

 

Author index

553

 

 

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