Bulletin  of  Materials  Science

Volume  31,  No.  1,  February  2008

CONTENTS


Cover: Higher magnification FESEM image of ZnO nanorods. For details, see p. 90.


Alloys


Influence of minor elements additions on microstructure and properties of 93W–4×9Ni–2×1Fe alloys


Liu Wensheng, Ma Yunzhu and Huang Baiyun

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Polymers


Pressure induced graft-co-polymerization of acrylonitrile onto Saccharum cilliare fibre and evaluation of some properties of grafted fibre


A S Singha, Anjali Shama and Vijay Kumar Thakur

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Comparison of performance parameters of poly(3,4 ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) based electrochromic device on glass with and without counter electrode


S Sindhu, K Narasimha Rao and E S R Gopal

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Composites  
Asbestos free friction composition for brake linings

Arnab Ganguly and Raji George

19

Polypropylene–clay composite prepared from Indian bentonite


Madhuchhanda Sarkar, Kausik Dana, Sankar Ghatak and Amarnath Banerjee

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Thermal Studies  
Thermal degradation kinetics and solid state, temperature dependent, electrical conductivity of charge–transfer complex of phenothiazine with chloranil and picric acid  

M A Ashok and B N Achar

29
   
Corrosion  
Chemical treatment of zinc surface and its corrosion inhibition studies

S K Rajappa, T V Venkatesha and B M Praveen

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Thin Films  

Synthesis of nanocrystalline TiO2 thin films by liquid phase deposition technique and its application for photocatalytic degradation studies


Noor Shahina Begum and H M Farveez Ahmed

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Effect of oxygen intercalation on properties of sputtered CuYO2 for potential use as a p-type transparent conducting films


R Manoj, M Nisha, K A Vanaja and M K Jayaraj

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Preparation of high dielectric constant thin films of CaCu3Ti4O12 by sol–gel

Deepam Maurya, Devendra P Singh, D C Agrawal and Y N Mohapatra

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Preparation and antibacterial activity of Ag–TiO2 composite film by liquid phase deposition (LPD) method  

S-Q Sun, B Sun, Wenqin Zhang and D Wang

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MOCVD of ZrO2 films from bis(t-butyl-3-oxo-butanoato) zirconium(IV): some theoretical (thermodynamic) and experimental aspects  

Sukanya Dhar, M S Dharmaprakash and S A Shivashankar

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Electrical and optical properties of silicon-doped gallium nitride polycrystalline films  

S R Bhattacharyya and A K Pal

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Sensors  
Effects of electron beam irradiation on tin dioxide gas sensors  

Zheng Jiao, Xiaojuan Wan, Bing Zhao, Huijiao Guo, Tiebing Liu and Minghong Wu

83
   
Nanomaterials  
Synthesis and characterization of metal oxide nanorod brushes  

Kalyan Raidongia and M Eswaramoorthy

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Synthesis of iron oxide nanoparticles of narrow size distribution on polysaccharide templates  

M Nidhin, R Indumathy, K J Sreeram and Balachandran Unni Nair

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Large scale synthesis and characterization of Ni nanoparticles by solution reduction method  

Huazhi Wang, Xinli Kou, Jie Zhang and Jiangong Li

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