Bulletin of Materials Science

Volume 30, No. 1, February 2007

CONTENTS

Cover: High magnification TEM image of FeRu alloy nanorods inside the carbon nanotube. For details, see p. 27.

Single Crystals
Thermoluminescence characteristics of Sm³⁺ doped NaYF₄ crystals
M V Ramana Reddy, Ch Gopal Reddy and K Narasimha Reddy	1

Thin Films
Study of annealing effects in Al–Sb bilayer thin films
R K Mangal, B Tripathi, M Singh and Y K Vijay	5
Studies on gas sensing performance of pure and modified barium strontium titanate thick film resistors
G H Jain, L A Patil, P P Patil, U P Mulik and K R Patil	9

Nanomaterials
A novel method for synthesizing nano-crystalline MgTiO₃ geikielite
G Parthasarathy and S V Manorama	19
Carbon nanostructures and graphite-coated metal nanostructures obtained by pyrolysis of ruthenocene and ruthenocene–ferrocene mixtures
L S Panchakarla and A Govindaraj	23
*Synthesis and characterization of in situ* prepared poly (methyl methacrylate) nanocomposites**
Shahzada Ahmad, Sharif Ahmad and S A Agnihotry	31

Catalysis
Photocatalytic degradation of indigo carmine dye using TiO₂ impregnated activated carbon
A K Subramani, K Byrappa, S Ananda, K M Lokanatha Rai, C Ranganathaiah and M Yoshimura	37
Synthesis, characterization and ion exchange properties of zirconium(IV) tungstoiodophosphate, a new cation exchanger
Weqar Ahmad Siddiqui and Shakeel Ahmad Khan	43

Polymers
Electrical conductivity of polyaniline doped PVC–PMMA polymer blends
S H Deshmukh, D K Burghate, V P Akhare, V S Deogaonkar, P T Deshmukh and M S Deshmukh	51

Electrochemistry
Polynitroaniline as brightener for zinc–nickel alloy plating from non-cyanide sulphate bath
H P Sachin, Ganesha Achary, Y Arthoba Naik and T V Venkatesha	57

Glasses
High field electrical behaviour in lithium–phospho–vanadate glass system
C Narayana Reddy, S Asokan and R V Anavekar	65

Steel
Effect of transient change in strain rate on plastic flow behaviour of low carbon steel
A Ray, P Barat, P Mukherjee, A Sarkar and S K Bandyopadhyay	69