Bulletin  of  Materials  Science

Volume  35,  No.  1,  February  2012

CONTENTS


Structural and optical characterization of thick and thin polycrystalline diamond films deposited by microwave plasma activated CVD

 

S K Pradhan, B Satpati, B P Bag and T Sharda

1

Recent analytical applications of nanoparticle sensitized lucigenin and luminol chemiluminescent reactions

 

S M Wabaidur, Mu Naushad and Z A Alothman

7

Effects of nitrogen annealing on surface structure, silicide formation and magnetic properties of ultrathin films of Co on Si (100)

 

Ganesh K Rajan, Shivaraman Ramaswamy, C Gopalakrishnan and D John Thiruvadigal

13

Dielectric properties and structural dynamics of melt compounded hot-pressed poly (ethylene oxide)–organophilic montmorillonite clay nanocomposite films

 

R J Sengwa and Shobhna Choudhary

19

Ultrasound assisted synthesis of PMMA/clay nanocomposites: Study of oxygen permeation and flame retardant properties

 

Subrata K Patra, Gyanaranjan Prusty and Sarat K Swain

27

Application of aromatization catalyst in synthesis of carbon nanotubes

 

Song Rongjun, Yang Yunpeng, Li Qing and Li Bin

33

On conduction mechanism in paramagnetic phase of Gd based manganites

 

S Sagar and M R Anantharaman

41

Electrical and magnetic properties of (BiNa)1/2(FeV)1/2O3

 

S K Bera, Subrat K Barik, R N P Choudhary and P K Bajpai

47

Barrier characteristics of Pt/Ru Schottky contacts on n-type GaN based on IVT and CVT measurements

 

N Nanda Kumar Reddy and V Rajagopal Reddy

53

Synthesis and characterization of NLO–chromophore with rigid-flexible dendron

 

Jialei Liu, Heyang Huang, Xinhou Liu and Zhen-Zhen

63

High temperature C/C–SiC composite by liquid silicon infiltration: a literature review

 

Manish Patel, Kumar Saurabh, V V Bhanu Prasad and J Subrahmanyam

67

Humidity sensing behaviour of polyaniline/magnesium chromate (MgCrO4) composite

 

Machappa and M V N Ambika Prasad

79

Correlation between diffraction and viscosity data for Bi–Ga molten alloys

 

S Mudry, A Yakymovych, I Shtablavyi, V Sidorov and K Shunyaev

87

Influence of heat treatment on microstructure and passivity of Cu–30Zn–1Sn alloy in buffer solution containing chloride ions

 

U Tabrizi, R Parvizi, A Davoodi and M H Moayed

93

Synthesis of boron nitride from boron containing poly (vinyl alcohol) as ceramic precursor

 

M Das and S Ghatak

103

EXAFS investigations on PbMoO4 single crystals grown under different conditions

 

A K Poswal, D Bhattacharyya, S N Jha, Sangeeta and S C Sabharwal

107

Analysis on insulator–metal transition in yttrium doped LSMO from electron density distribution

 

S Israel, S Saravana Kumar, R Renuretson, R A J R Sheeba and R Saravanan

111

Synthesis and luminescence properties of Eu2+-activated Ca4Mg5(PO4)6 for blue-emitting phosphor

 

Liu Min, Tang Wanjun and Deng Kejian

123

Synthesis and properties of N,N,N′-tris-(2-ethoxynaphthalenen-1-yl)–N, N, Ntriphenylbenzene 1, 3, 5-triamine for dye sensitized solar cell

 

Suji Mathew and Karickal R Haridas

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