Bulletin of Materials Science

Volume 29, No. 7, December 2006

CONTENTS

Cover: TEM image of TiO₂ nanotubes obtained by sol–gel method calcined at 650°C for 2 h. For details, see p. 706.

Semiconductors
Preparation of Al–Sb semiconductor by swift heavy ion irradiation
R K Mangal, M Singh, Y K Vijay and D K Avasthi	653
*Fabrication and characterization of the p-type (Bi₂Te₃)_x(Sb₂Te₃)_1–x thermoelectric crystals prepared via* zone melting**
G Kavei and M A Karami	659

Solid State Ionics
A comparative study of proton transport properties of zirconium(IV) phosphonates
Heemanshu Patel and Uma Chudasama	665

Polymers
Investigation on poly (vinylidene fluoride) based gel polymer electrolytes
S Rajendran, P Sivakumar and Ravi Shanker Babu	673

Alloys
Equal channel angular pressing of pure aluminium––an analysis
M Saravanan, R M Pillai, B C Pai, M Brahmakumar and K R Ravi	679
Friction factor of CP aluminium and aluminium–zinc alloys
N Vidhya Sagar, K S Anand, A C Mithun and K Srinivasan	685

Composites
Preparation and electrochemical properties of LiFePO₄/C composite cathodes for lithium-ion batteries
Han Chen, Shao-Chang Han, Wen-Zhi Yu, Hong-Zhi Bo, Chang-Ling Fan and Zhong-Yu Xu	689

Thin Films
X-ray reflectivity investigation of interlayer at interfaces of multilayer structures: application to Mo/Si multilayers
M Nayak, G S Lodha and R V Nandedkar	693

Nanomaterials
A one-step single source route to carbon nanotubes
Tao Cheng, Zhiyong Fang, Guifu Zou, Qixiu Hu, Biao Hu, Xiaozhi Yang and Youjin Zhang	701
Fabrication and characterization of uniform TiO₂ nanotube arrays by sol–gel template method
T Maiyalagan, B Viswanathan and U V Varadaraju	705
Preparation and characterization of nanostructured CuO thin films for photoelectrochemical splitting of water
Diwakar Chauhan, V R Satsangi, Sahab Dass and Rohit Shrivastav	709
*Strength and strain rate sensitivity for hcp* and fcc nanopolycrystal metals**
P Rodriguez and R W Armstrong	717

Subject index	721

Author index	734

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