Bulletin  of  Materials  Science

Volume  31,  No.  2,  April  2008

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Cover: SEM image of CuO microsphere: a detailed view on an individual sphere. For details, see p. 194.


Alloys and Steels


In vitro biomimetic deposition of apatite on alkaline and heat treated Ti6Al4V alloy surface


K Fatehi, F Moztarzadeh, M Solati-Hashjin, M Tahriri, M Rezvannia and R Ravarian

101

Comparative study of Co, Cr and Al-doped LiMnO2 prepared by ion exchange  

Xian Ming Wu, Run Xiu Li, Shang Chen, Ze Qiang He and Ming Fei Xu

109
Erosion behaviour of hydro turbine steels  

Akhilesh K Chauhan, D B Goel and Satya Prakash

115
   

Thin Films


Study of ferromagnetism in Mn-doped ZnO whisker arrays


Feng Zhu, Ye Zhang, Youguo Yan, Wenhai Song and Lingli Xia

121

   
Mechanical Properties  
Possibilities of using welding-on technologies in crane wheel renovation

J Viňáš and Ľ Kaščák

125

   
Electrical Properties  
Preparation, characterization and conductivity studies of Li3–2xAl2–xSbx(PO4)3  

N Anantharamulu, G Prasad and M Vithal

133
   
Surface Studies  
Thermal, FT–IR and dielectric studies of gel grown sodium oxalate single crystals

B B Parekh, P M Vyas, Sonal R Vasant and M J Joshi

143
   
Ceramics and Glasses  
Self-propagating combustion synthesis of Pb1–xSrxZrO3 (0 £ £ 0×20) ceramics and their dielectric properties

K Boopathy, A Samson Nesaraj and V Rajendran

149

Fourier–transform infrared spectroscopic characterization of naturally occurring glassy fulgurites


B J Saikia, G Parthasarathy, N C Sarmah and G D Baruah

155
   
Polymers  
Studies on in vitro release of CPM from semi-interpenetrating polymer network (IPN) composed of chitosan and glutamic acid  

K Kumari and P P Kundu

159
   
Electrochemistry  
Temperature-induced control over phase selection among hydroxides of nickel  

T N Ramesh and P Vishnu Kamath

169
Predicting Los Angeles abrasion loss of rock aggregates from crushability index  

S Kahraman and O Y Toraman

173
Electrical resistivity measurements to predict abrasion resistance of rock aggregates  

Sair Kahraman and Mustafa Fener

179
   
Nanomaterials  
On Young’s modulus of multi-walled carbon nanotubes  

K T Kashyap and R G Patil

185
Preparation of CuS nanoparticles embedded in poly(vinyl alcohol) nanofibre via electrospinning  

Jia Xu, Xuejun Cui, Jinhui Zhang, Hongwei Liang, Hongyan Wang and Junfeng Li

189
Mesoscale organization of CuO nanoslices: Formation of sphere  

Jun Wang, Shunxiao Zhang, Zhanshuang Li, Jia You, Piaoping Yang,
Xiaoyan Jing and Milin Zhang

193
   
Erratum: Study of microstructure in vanadium–palladium alloys by X-ray diffraction technique  

J Ghosh, S K Chattopadhyay, A K Meikap, S K Chatterjee and P Chatterjee 2007
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