Bulletin of Materials Science

Volume 30, No. 3, June 2007

CONTENTS

Cover: Bright field TEM image of combustion-derived TiO₂ with citric acid as fuel. For details, see p. 269.

Magnetic Properties
Bulk magnetic properties of CdFe₂O₄ in nano-regime
Rucha Desai, R V Mehta, R V Upadhyay, Amita Gupta, A Praneet and K V Rao	197

Solid State Ionics
A comparative study of proton transport properties of zirconium phosphate and its metal exchanged phases
Rakesh Thakkar, Heemanshu Patel and Uma Chudasama	205

Single Crystals
Influence of microgravity on Ce-doped Bi₁₂SiO₂₀ crystal defect
Y F Zhou, J Y Xu, Y Liu, L D Chen, Y Y Huang and W X Huang	211

Polymers
Thermal and IR studies on copper doped polyvinyl alcohol
Ch Linga Raju, J L Rao, B C V Reddy and K Veera Brahmam	215

Electrochemistry
Effect of a new condensation product on electrodeposition of zinc from a non-cyanide bath
Ganesha Achary, H P Sachin, Y Arthoba Naik and T V Venkatesha	219

Ceramics
Synthesis of CaTiO₃ from calcium titanyl oxalate hexahydrate (CTO) as precursor employing microwave heating technique
B M Patil, R S Srinivasa and S R Dharwadkar	225
Titania doped triaxial porcelain: Enhancement of strength by controlled heat treatment
Sunipa Bhattacharyya, Swapan Kumar Das, Kausik Dana and Nirendra Krishna Mitra	231

Clay Materials
Instrumental characterization of clay by XRF, XRD and FTIR
Preeti Sagar Nayak and B K Singh	235

Cements
Magnesium oxychloride cement concrete
A K Misra and Renu Mathur	239

Thin Films
Structural and optical properties of ZnO films grown on silicon and their applications in MOS devices in conjunction with ZrO₂ as a gate dielectric
S K Nandi, S Chakraborty, M K Bera and C K Maiti	247

Lasers
Theoretical analysis of effect of temperature on threshold parameters and field intensity in GaN material based heterostructure
S A Gaikwad, E P Samuel, D S Patil and D K Gautam	255

Nanomaterials
Nanocrystalline TiO₂ by three different synthetic approaches: A comparison
T V Anuradha and S Ranganathan	263
Nanowires: properties, applications and synthesis via porous anodic aluminium oxide template
Jaya Sarkar, Gobinda Gopal Khan and A Basumallick	271
Zinc nanoparticles in solution by laser ablation technique
S C Singh and R Gopal	291
Raman study on single-walled carbon nanotubes with different laser excitation energies
S S Islam, Khurshed Ahmad Shah, H S Mavi, A K Shaukla, S Rath and Harsh	295