Bulletin  of  Materials  Science

Volume  32,  No.  2,  April  2009

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Cover: HRTEM image of the well-graphitized MWNT grown from the Ni using the APCVD method. For details, see p. 138.

Thin Films and Nanomatter


Microstructural characteristics and mechanical properties of magnetron sputtered nanocrystalline TiN films on glass substrate


Vipin Chawla, R Jayaganthan and Ramesh Chandra

117

Structural and optical properties of chemically deposited Cd(S–Se) : CdCl2, Sm films  

R S Singh and S Bhushan

125
Carbon nanotube synthesis from propane decomposition on a pre-treated Ni overlayer  

J Sengupta, S K Panda and C Jacob

135
Low temperature synthesis of nanosized Mn1–xZnxFe2O4 ferrites and their characterizations  

Rajesh Iyer, Rucha Desai and R V Upadhyay

141
Synthesis and characterization of nano-sized BaxSr1–xSO4 (0 £ x £ 1) solid solution by a simple surfactant-free aqueous solution route  

Yu-Feng Li, Jia-Hu Ouyang, Yu Zhou, Xue-Song Liang and Ji-Yong Zhong

149
Syntheses of Fe–TiC nanocomposite from ilmenite concentrate via microwave heating  

Mansour Razavi, Mohammad Reza Rahimipour, Tooraj Ebadzadeh and Seyed Salman Razavi Tousi

155
Bicomponent AgCl/PVP nanofibre fabricated by electrospinning with gel–sol method  

Jie Bai, Yaoxian Li, Lei Sun, Chaoqun Zhang and Qingbiao Yang

161
Synthesis and optical characteristics of ZnO nanocrystals  

D Sridevi and K V Rajendran

165
   

Composites


Sintering behaviour of spinel–alumina composites


Soumen Pal, A K Bandyopadhyay, P G Pal, S Mukherjee and B N Samaddar

169

   
Ceramics and Glasses  
Effects of  talc and clay addition on pressureless sintering of porous Si3N4 ceramics  

Yu Fangli, Yang Jianfeng, Xue Yaohui, Du Jun, Lu Yuan and Gao Jiqiang

177
   
Single Crystals  
Growth of Nd3+ doped LiNbO3 crystals using Bridgman method and its spectral properties  

Jinhao Wang, Yueping Zhang, Haiping Xia and Jiawei Sheng

183
Study of gel grown mixed crystals of BaxCa(1–x)(IO3)4  

S L Garud, N K Mahajan and K B Saraf

187
Hydrothermal synthesis of Pb(Zr0×52Ti0×48)O3 powders at low temperature and low alkaline concentration  

Zhong-Cheng Qiu, Jian-Ping Zhou, Gangqiang Zhu, Peng Liu and Xiao-Bing Bian

193
   
Polymers  
Studies on blends of cycloaliphatic epoxy resin with varying concentrations of carboxyl terminated butadiene acrylonitrile copolymer I: Thermal and morphological properties

Garima Tripathi and Deepak Srivastava

199

   
Thermal Studies  
Spectroscopic, thermal and biological studies of coordination compounds of sulfasalazine drug: Mn(II), Hg(II), Cr(III), ZrO(II), VO(II) and Y(III) transition metal complexes

M G Abd El-Wahed, M S Refat and S M El-Megharbel

205
   

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