Bulletin  of  Materials  Science

Volume  29,  No.  1,  February  2006

CONTENTS


Cover:  16 nm CuS nanocrystals obtained reducing the amount of NaAOT by half. For details, see p. 3.


Nanomaterials


A simple synthesis and characterization of CuS nanocrystals


Ujjal K Gautam and Bratindranath Mukherjee

1

Preparation of nanocrystalline Mg4Nb2O9 by citrate gel method


A Vadivel Murugan, A B Gaikwad and V Ravi

7



Semiconductors


Photoconductivity of ZnTe thin films at elevated temperatures


N Mazumdar, R Sarma, B K Sarma and H L Das

11

Some spectral response characteristics of ZnTe thin films


R Sarma, N Mazumdar and H L Das

15

Optical, electrical and thermoelectric power studies of Al–Sb thin film bilayer structure


M Singh, J S Arora, Y K Vijay and M Sudharshan

17

Optical properties of CdS sintered film


D Patidar, R Sharma, N Jain, T P Sharma and N S Saxena

21

Pressure induced structural phase transition in SnS—An ab initio study


M Rajagopalan, G Kalpana and V Priyamvadha

25

Variation of crystallite size of Al1–xInxN for different values of x and band gap

V Naik, R Naik, H Somashekarappa, S S Mahesh and R Somashekar

29


Ceramics and Glasses


Electrical conduction in (Na0.125Bi0.125Ba0.65Ca0.1) (Nd0.065Ti0.87Nb0.065)O3 ceramic

Syed Mahboob, G Prasad and G S Kumar

35
Effect of B2O3 addition on microhardness and structural features of 40Na2O–10BaO–xB2O3–(50–x)P2O5 glass system

K V Shah, M Goswami, M N Deo, A Sarkar, S Manikandan, V K Shrikhande and 
G P Kothiyal

43

Effects of hybrid composition of LCP and glass fibres on abrasive wear of reinforced LLDPE


S A R Hashmi, Ajay Naik and Navin Chand

49

Synthesis and characterization of cadmium doped lead–borate glasses


A A Alemi, H Sedghi, A R Mirmohseni and V Golsanamlu

55



Alloys


Microstructures and properties of low-alloy fire resistant steel


Bimal Kumar Panigrahi

59

Structural, electrical and thermodynamical aspects of hydrogenated La–Ni–Si alloy


Ankur Jain, R K Jain, Shivani Agarwal and I P Jain

67



Composites


Influence of Ce0.68Zr0.32O2 solid solution on depositing g-alumina washcoat on FeCrAl foils


Mei-Qing Shen, Li-Wei Jia, Wen-Long Zhou, Jun Wang and Ying Huang

73

Synthesis, characterization and a.c. conductivity of polypyrrole/Y2O3 composites


T K Vishnuvardhan, V R Kulkarni, C Basavaraja and S C Raghavendra

77

Interfacial stick–slip transition in hydroxyapatite filled high density polyethylene composite


Roy Joseph, M T Martyn, K E Tanner and P D Coates

85

Swelling behaviour of isora/natural rubber composites in oils used in automobiles


Lovely Mathew, K U Joseph and Rani Joseph

91

 

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