Bulletin  of  Materials  Science

Volume  28,  No.  5,  August  2005

CONTENTS


Cover:  SEM micrograph showing the fracture morphology of 70 wt% HAP loaded microspheres prepared at 500 ± 50 rpm, 20°C and 0×1 wt% PVA concentration. For details, see p. 389.


Review—Biomaterials

Preparation of microstructured hydroxyapatite microspheres using oil in water emulsions

T S Pradeesh, M C Sunny, H K Varma and P Ramesh

383

Synthesis

Preparation of ultrafine LiTaO3 powders by citrate gel method

S C Navale, V Samuel and V Ravi

391

Alloys

Structure and coercivity of nanocrystalline Fe–Si–B–Nb–Cu alloys

B Majumdar and D Akhtar

395

Influence of alloying and secondary annealing on anneal hardening effect at sintered copper alloys

Svetlana Nestorovic

401

Single Crystals

Optical and electrical properties of ZrSe3 single crystals grown by chemical vapour transport technique

Kaushik Patel, Jagdish Prajapati, Rajiv Vaidya and S G Patel

405
Crystal growth and reflectivity studies of Zn1–xMnxTe crystals

K Veera Brahmam, D Raja Reddy and B K Reddy

411
D.C. electrical conductivity measurements on ADP single crystals added with simple organic compounds

A Anne Assencia and C Mahadevan

415

Composites

Magnetoelectric effect in metal–PZT laminates

S Narendra Babu, T Bhimasankaram and S V Suryanarayana

419

Preparation and characterization of polymer composites based on charge-transfer complex of phenothiazine–iodine in polystyrene

R A Singh, R K Gupta and S K Singh

423

Structural and electrical measurements of CdZnSe composite

V Kishore, Vibhav K Saraswat, N S Saxena and T P Sharma

431

Ceramics and Glasses

Ultra low and negative expansion glass–ceramic materials produced from pyrophyllite and blast furnace slag

S Mandal, S Chakrabarti, S Ghatak and S K Das

437

Effect of titania on fired characteristics of triaxial porcelain

Sunipa Bhattacharyya, Swapan Kumar Das and Nirendra Krishna Mitra

445

Characterization and microstructure of porous lead zirconate titanate ceramics

B Praveenkumar, H H Kumar and D K Kharat

453

Effect of phase separation on the fracture toughness of SiO2–B2O3–Na2O glass

A K Seal, P Chakraborty, Nihar Ranjon Roy, S Mukherjee, M K Mitra and G C Das

457

Optical absorption and fluorescence properties of Er3+ in sodium borate glass

Y C Ratnakaram, J Lakshmi and R P S Chakradhar

461

Electrolytes

Correlation between ionic conductivity and fluidity of polymer gel electrolytes containing NH4CF3SO3

Harinder Pal Singh, Rajiv Kumar and S S Sekhon

467

Ion Irradiation

High-energy heavy ion testing of VLSI devices for single event upsets and latch up

S B Umesh, S R Kulkarni, R Sandhya, G R Joshi, R Damle and M Ravindra

473

Thin Films

Synthesis of MoO3 and its polyvinyl alcohol nanostructured film

Arunkumar Lagashetty, Vijayanand Havanoor, S Basavaraja and A Venkataraman

477

Photocurrent enhancement of d.c. sputtered copper oxide thin films

P Samarasekara, M A K Mallika Arachchi, A S Abeydeera, C A N Fernando, A S Disanayake and R M G Rajapakse

483

Studies on preparation and characterization of indium doped zinc oxide films by chemical spray deposition

Benny Joseph, P K Manoj and V K Vaidyan

487

A new condensation product for zinc plating from non-cyanide alkaline bath

Arthoba Naik and T V Venkatesha

495

Nanomaterials

Silver nanoparticles of variable morphology synthesized in aqueous foams as novel templates

Saikat Mandal, Sujatha K Arumugam, Renu Pasricha and Murali Sastry

503

A convenient thermal decomposition-co-reduction synthesis of nanocrystalline tungsten disilicide

Jianhua Ma, Yihong Du and Yitai Qian

511

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