Bulletin of Materials Science

Volume 31, No. 3, June 2008

CONTENTS

Cover: AFM image of a 350´350 nm pillars obtained by multiple imprinting using a DVD stamp. For details, see p. 256.

Proceedings of the ‘National Review and Coordination Meeting on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology’, Hyderabad, 2007
FOREWORD	199
Polystyrene as a zwitter resist in electron beam lithography based electroless patterning of gold
T Bhuvana and G U Kulkarni	201
Synthesis of size-controlled Bi particles by electrochemical deposition
C N Tharamani, H C Thejaswini and S Sampath	207
Optical properties of polymer nanocomposites
S Srivastava, M Haridas and J K Basu	213
Reactivity and resizing of gold nanorods in presence of Cu²⁺
T S Sreeprasad, A K Samal and T Pradeep	219
Hydrogen-induced electrical and optical switching in Pd capped Pr nanoparticle layers
Shubhra Kala and B R Mehta	225
Formation of InN nanoparticle and nanorod structures by nitrogen plasma annealing method
Ajay Kumar Mann, Deepak Varandani, Bodh Raj Mehta, Lalit Kumar Malhotra, G Mangamma and A K Tyagi	233
Nanomagnetics with lasers
R C Budhani and Rajib K Rakshit	241
Soft lithography meets self-organization: Some new developments in meso-patterning
Rabibrata Mukherjee, Ashutosh Sharma, Ganesh Patil, Danish Faruqui and Partho Sarathi Gooh Pattader	249
Synthesis of nanocomposites using glasses and mica as templates
D Chakravorty, S Basu, B N Pal, P K Mukherjee, B Ghosh, K Chatterjee, A Bose, S Bhattacharya and A Banerjee	263
Growth of two-dimensional arrays of uncapped gold nanoparticles on silicon substrates
Anindya Das, Soma Das and A K Raychaudhuri	277
Growth of compact arrays of optical quality single crystalline ZnO nanorods by low temperature method
Manoranjan Ghosh, Ritwik Bhattacharyya and A K Raychaudhuri	283
New route for preparation of luminescent mercaptoethanoate capped cadmium selenide quantum dots
Manoj E Wankhede, Shaukatali N Inamdar, Aparna Deshpande, Aniket R Thete, Renu Pasricha, Sulabha K Kulkarni and Santosh K Haram	291
Empirical pseudo-potential studies on electronic structure of semiconducting quantum dots
Anjali Kshirsagar and Neelesh Kumbhojkar	297
New approach towards imaging l-DNA using scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy (STM/STS)
Shirshendu Dey, Sushama Pethkar, Suguna D Adyanthaya, Murali Sastry and C V Dharmadhikari	309
Investigation on carbon nanomaterials: Coaxial CNT-cylinders and CNT-polymer composite
Kalpana Awasthi, T P Yadav, P R Mishra, S Awasthi and O N Srivastava	313
Synthesis, characterization and application of semiconducting oxide (Cu₂O and ZnO) nanostructures
D P Singh, Jai Singh, P R Mishra, R S Tiwari and O N Srivastava	319
Ab initio studies on [bmim][PF₆]–CO₂ mixture and CO₂ clusters
B L Bhargava, M Saharay and S Balasubramanian	327
Effect of curvature on structures and vibrations of zigzag carbon nanotubes: A first-principles study
Mousumi Upadhyay Kahaly and Umesh V Waghmare	335
Control of nanostructures in PVA, PVA/chitosan blends and PCL through electrospinning
U S Sajeev, K Anoop Anand, Deepthy Menon and Shanti Nair	343
Comparative study of electron conduction in azulene and naphthalene
Sudipta Dutta, S Lakshmi and Swapan K Pati	353
Nanorheology of regenerated silk fibroin solution
A Raghu and Sharath Ananthamurthy	359
Synthesis and characterization of silver molybdate nanowires, nanorods and multipods
G Nagaraju, G T Chandrappa and Jacques Livage	367
Influence of mechanical milling and thermal annealing on electrical and magnetic properties of nanostructured Ni–Zn and cobalt ferrites
A Narayanasamy and N Sivakumar	373
Microrheology of concentrated DNA solutions using optical tweezers
Arun S Rajkumar and B M Jaffar Ali	381
Model for thermal conductivity of CNT-nanofluids
H E Patel, K B Anoop, T Sundararajan and Sarit K Das	387
Kinetics of self-organization of polyampholyte nanoparticles in solutions
H B Bohidar	391
Enhanced catalytic activity of nanoscale platinum islands loaded onto SnO₂ thin film for sensitive LPG gas sensors
Divya Haridas, Vinay Gupta and K Sreenivas	397
Time resolved spectroscopic studies on some nanophosphors
Harish Chander and Santa Chawla	401
Metal oxide/polyaniline nanocomposites: Cluster size and composition dependent structural and magnetic properties
Raksha Sharma, Rakesh Malik, Subhalakshmi Lamba and S Annapoorni	409
Synthesis of nanocrystalline materials through reverse micelles: A versatile methodology for synthesis of complex metal oxides
Ashok K Ganguli, Sonalika Vaidya and Tokeer Ahmad	415
Optical materials based on molecular nano/microcrystals and ultrathin films
A Patra, K Rajesh and T P Radhakrishnan	421
Biomimetic synthesis of hybrid nanocomposite scaffolds by freeze-thawing and freeze-drying
S Nayar, A K Pramanick, A Guha, B K Mahato, M Gunjan and A Sinha	429
Studies on crystallization behaviour and mechanical properties of Al–Ni–La metallic glasses
K L Sahoo, Rina Sahu, M Ghosh and S Chatterjee	433
Synthesis, characterization and electrochemical studies of LiNi₀_×8M₀_×2O₂ cathode material for rechargeable lithium batteries
R Sathiyamoorthi, P Manisankar, P Shakkthivel, Mu Sang Lee and T Vasudevan	441
Structure of nanocomposites of Al–Fe alloys prepared by mechanical alloying and rapid solidification processing
S S Nayak, B S Murty and S K Pabi	449
Structure–property relationship of specialty elastomer–clay nanocomposites
Anirban Ganguly, Madhuchhanda Maiti and Anil K Bhowmick	455
Upconversion emission of BaTiO₃:Er nanocrystals
Pushpal Ghosh, Suparna Sadhu, Tapasi Sen and Amitava Patra	461
Nanocrystalline silicon prepared at high growth rate using helium dilution
Koyel Bhattacharya and Debajyoti Das	467
Nanodielectrics with giant permittivity
S K Saha	473
Metal nanoparticle doped coloured coatings on glasses and plastics through tuning of surface plasmon band position
Goutam De, Samar Kumar Medda, Sucheta De and Sudipto Pal	479
Electrochemical and in situ spectroelectrochemical studies of gold nanoparticles immobilized Nafion matrix modified electrode
T Selvaraju, S Sivagami, S Thangavel and R Ramaraj	487
CdS/CdSSe quantum dots in glass matrix
R S Sonawane, S D Naik, S K Apte, M V Kulkarni and B B Kale	495
Doped barium titanate nanoparticles
T K Kundu, A Jana and P Barik	501
Nanocrystalline spinel ferrites by solid state reaction route
T K Kundu and S Mishra	507
Study of optical phonon modes of CdS nanoparticles using Raman spectroscopy
Rajeev R Prabhu and M Abdul Khadar	511
Synthesis of a new generation of amphiphiles with multi-cryptand headgroups: A comparative study at air–water interface
B Sarkar, R K Gupta, R A Singh and P K Bharadwaj	517
Water structure near single and multi-layer nanoscopic hydrophobic plates of varying separation and interaction potentials
Malay Rana and Amalendu Chandra	525
Tuning photoluminescence of ZnS nanoparticles by silver
A Murugadoss and Arun Chattopadhyay	533
Tuning luminescence intensity of RHO6G dye using silver nanoparticles
Suchita Kalele, Aparna C Deshpande, Shashi Bhushan Singh and S K Kulkarni	541
On the synthesis, characterization and photocatalytic applications of nanostructured TiO₂
P R Mishra and O N Srivastava	545
ZnO 1-D nanostructures: Low temperature synthesis and characterizations
Apurba Dev, S Chaudhuri and B N Dev	551
Luminescence in Mn-doped CdS nanocrystals
Angshuman Nag, Sameer Sapra, Subhra Sen Gupta, Ankita Prakash, Ajit Ghangrekar, N Periasamy and D D Sarma	561
Effect of coordination on bond properties: A first principles study
Jaita Paul and Shobhana Narasimhan	569
In situ high temperature XRD studies of ZnO nanopowder prepared via cost effective ultrasonic mist chemical vapour deposition
Preetam Singh, Ashvani Kumar, Ajay Kaushal, Davinder Kaur, Ashish Pandey and R N Goyal	573
Raman spectroscopy of graphene on different substrates and influence of defects
Anindya Das, Biswanath Chakraborty and A K Sood	579