Bulletin  of  Materials  Science

Volume  33,  No.  2,  April  2010

CONTENTS


Cover:  SEM of ZnO nanotubes. For details, see p. 92.

Thin Films and Nanomatter


Rapid growth of nanotubes and nanorods of würtzite ZnO through microwave-irradiation of a metalorganic complex of zinc and a surfactant in solution


Sanjaya Brahma, Kalya Jagannatha Rao and Srinivasarao Shivashankar

89

On adsorption of aluminium and methyl groups on silica for TMA/H2O process in atomic layer deposition of aluminium oxide nano layers

 

Anu Philip and K Rajeev Kumar

97
Microstructural characterizations and hardness evaluation of d.c. reactive magnetron sputtered CrN thin films on stainless steel substrate  

Hetal N Shah, Vipin Chawla, R Jayaganthan and Davinder Kaur

103
Manufacturing of patterned ZnO films with application for photoinitiated decolorization of malachite green in aqueous solutions  

Nina V Kaneva, Georgi G Yordanov and Ceco D Dushkin

111
Properties of Nb-doped ZnO transparent conductive thin films deposited by rf magnetron sputtering using a high quality ceramic target  

J W Xu, H Wang, M H Jiang and X Y Liu

119
Critical shear stress produced by interaction of edge dislocation with nanoscale inhomogeneity  

Q H Fang, J M Chen, Y W Liu and P H Wen

123
   
Ceramics and Glasses  
Impedance spectroscopy of Ba3Sr2DyTi3V7O30 ceramic  

P S Sahoo, A Panigrahi, S K Patri and R N P Choudhary

129
Evaluation of borax solid wastes in production of frits suitable for fast single-fired wall tile opaque glass–ceramic glazes  

K Pekkan and B Karasu

135
IR study of Pb–Sr titanate borosilicate glasses  

C R Gautam, Devendra Kumar and Om Parkash

145
   
Polymers  
Influence of granular strontium chloride as additives on some electrical and mechanical properties of pure polyvinyl alcohol  

A B Elaydy and M Hafez

149
PEDOT–PSSA as an alternative support for Pt electrodes in PEFCs  

K K Tintula, S Pitchumani, P Sridhar and A K Shukla

157
Thermal stability of PMMA–clay hybrids  

Tanushree Choudhury and Nirendra M Misra

165
   
Magnetic Properties  
Charge-order driven multiferroic and magneto-dielectric properties of rare earth manganates  

Claudy Rayan Serrao, Jyoti Ranjan Sahu and Anirban Ghosh

169
   
Alloys  
Blistering in alloy Ti–6Al–4V from H+ ion implantation  

B K Singh and V Singh

179
   
Fly Ash  
Effect of curing conditions and ionic additives on properties of fly ash–lime compacts  

Saikat Maitra, Farooq Ahmad, Ananta K Das, Santanu Das and Binay K Dutta

185