Bulletin  of  Materials  Science

Volume  32,  No.  6,  December  2009

CONTENTS


Cover:  Microstructure of as-cast A2 alloy (dendritic structure). For details, see p. 618.

Thin Films and Nanomatter


Preparation of diamond like carbon thin film on stainless steel and its SEM characterization


Kamlesh Kumari, S Banerjee, T K Chini and N R Ray

563

Swift heavy ion irradiation effect on Cu-doped CdS nanocrystals embedded in PMMA

 

Shweta Agrawal, Subodh Srivastava, Sumit Kumar, S S Sharma, B Tripathi, M Singh and Y K Vijay

569
Dielectric properties of Al-substituted Co ferrite nanoparticles  

A T Raghavender and K M Jadhav

575
High rate performance of LiFePO4 cathode materials co-doped with C and Ti4+  by microwave synthesis  

Yan Cui, Miao Wang and Ruisong Guo

579
Synthesis of nanocrystalline mixed metal fluorides in nonaqueous medium  

Neetu Tyagi, Epsita Ghanti, Nikesh Gupta, N P Lalla and Rajamani Nagarajan

583
   
Composites  
Continuous jute fibre reinforced laminated paper composite and reinforcement-fibre free paper laminate  

B B Verma

589
   
Ceramics and Glasses  
Elastic properties of Na2O–ZnO–ZnF2–B2O3 oxyfluoride glasses  

Shantala D Patil, V M Jali and R V Anavekar

597
Heat capacity measurements on YbxGd2–xZr2O7 (x = 0, 1, 2) ceramics by differential scanning calorimetry  

Zhan-guo Liu, Jia-hu Ouyang and Yu Zhou

603
Cracking cone fracture after cold compaction of argillaceous particles  

Said Abid, Mohammed Bouaziz and Hatem Ksibi

607
   
Alloys  
Phase diagram of the system Ca–Ti–O at 1200 K  

K T Jacob and Sapna Gupta

611
Study on hardness and microstructural characteristics of sand cast Al–Si–Cu alloys  

Muzaffer Zeren and Erdem Karakulak

617

   
Single Crystals  
Anisotropy in elastic properties of lithium sodium sulphate hexahydrate single crystal—An ultrasonic study  

George Varughese, A Santhosh Kumar, J Philip and Godfrey Louis

621
   
Polymers  
Ionic transport in P(VdF–HFP)–PEO based novel microporous polymer electrolytes  

M Deka and A Kumar

627
Synthesis of crosslinked poly(styrene-co-divinylbenzene-co-sulfopropyl methacrylate) nanoparticles by emulsion polymerization: Tuning the particle size and surface charge density  

Dhamodaran Arunbabu, Mousumi Hazarika, Somsankar Naik and Tushar Jana

633
   
Catalysis  
A comprehensive study on the effect of Ru addition to Pt electrodes for direct ethanol fuel cell

J Datta, S Singh, S Das and N R Bandyopadhyay

643

   
Subject index 653
Author index 664
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