Bulletin of Materials Science

Volume 29, No. 2, April 2006

CONTENTS

Cover: Scanning electron micrograph of BaMoO₄. For details, see p. 117.

Polymers
Proton microbeam irradiation effects on PtBA polymer
J Kamila, S Roy, K Bhattacharjee, B Rout, B N Dev, R Guico, J Wang, A W Haberl, P Ayyub and P V Satyam	101

Semiconductors
Electron density distribution and bonding in ZnSe and PbSe using maximum entropy method (MEM)
K S Syed Ali, R Saravanan, S Israel and R K Rajaram	107

Ceramics and Glasses
Mechanochemically assisted room temperature solid state metathesis reaction for the synthesis of MMoO₄(M = Ca, Sr and Ba)
Purnendu Parhi, Satya Sadhan Singh, Alok R Ray and A Ramanan	115
Thermoluminescence dosimetry of rare earth doped calcium aluminate phosphors
K Madhukumar, K Rajendra Babu, K C Ajith Prasad, J James, T S Elias, V Padmanabhan and C M K Nair	119
A coprecipitation technique to prepare NaNbO₃and NaTaO₃
V Samuel, A B Gaikwad and V Ravi	123
Effect of metalloids on crystallization and magnetic behaviour of FeCoSiB based metallic glass
Ansu J Kailath, Arvind Kumar and Amitava Mitra	127

Composites
Nanoclays for polymer nanocomposites, paints, inks, greases and cosmetics formulations, drug delivery vehicle and waste water treatment
Hasmukh A Patel, Rajesh S Somani, Hari C Bajaj and Raksh V Jasra	133

Alloys
Effect of heat treatment on tensile behaviour of Ti–6Al–5Zr–0×5Mo–0×25Si alloy
Anil Kumar Nag, K V U Praveen and Vakil Singh	147
Microstructural characterization in diffusion bonded TiC–Al₂O₃/Cr18–Ni8 joint with Ti interlayer
Wang Juan, Li Yajiang and Yin Yansheng	155

Thin Films
On the optical and electrical properties of rf and a.c. plasma polymerized aniline thin films
U S Sajeev, C Joseph Mathai, S Saravanan, Rajeev R Ashokan, S Venkatachalam and M R Anantharaman	159
Characterization of nanocrystalline cadmium telluride thin films grown by successive ionic layer adsorption and reaction (SILAR) method
A U Ubale, R J Dhokne, P S Chikhlikar, V S Sangawar and D K Kulkarni	165
Synthesis of H₂SO₄ doped polyaniline film by potentiometric method
P D Gaikwad, D J Shirale, V K Gade, P A Savale, H J Kharat, K P Kakde, S S Hussaini, N R Dhumane and M D Shirsat	169
Precursors
Synthesis and characterization of sodium alkoxides
K Chandran, R Nithya, K Sankaran, A Gopalan and V Ganesan	173

Electrical Properties
Dielectric measurements on PWB materials at microwave frequencies
A Tanwar, K K Gupta, P J Singh and Y K Vijay	181
Structural and electrical properties of swift heavy ion beam irradiated Co/Si interface
Garima Agarwal, Ankur Jain, Shivani Agarwal, D Kabiraj and I P Jain	187
*Investigations on gradient a.c. conductivity characteristics of bamboo (Dendrocalamus strictus)*
Navin Chand, Deepak Jain and Archana Nigrawal	193

Nucleation Studies
Mechanism of cube grain nucleation during recrystallization of deformed commercial purity aluminium
K T Kashyap and R George	197