Bulletin  of  Materials  Science

Volume  25,  No.  6,  November 2002

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Cover:  Three-dimensional AFM image of PANI(EB)--CSA0.3 mol polymer film. For details, 
see p. 525.


Papers presented at the “National Conference on Frontiers in Materials Science and Technology”, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 
February 2002
FOREWORD 449
Study of YSZ-based electrochemical sensors with oxide electrodes for high temperature applications

A Dutta, N Kaabbuathong, M L Grilli, E Di Bartolomeo and E Traversa

451
ZrO2 as a high-k dielectric for strained SiGe MOS devices

R Mahapatra, G S Kar, C B Samantaray, A Dhar,
D Bhattacharya and S K Ray

455
Phonons in mixed superionic fluorites (BaF2)1--x(LaF3)x

M M Sinha

459
A novel method for sensing rotational speed, linear displacement and current using superconducting BPSCCO magnetic sensor

T K Dey, A Ray and S K Ghatak

463
Tunnelling of electrons through semiconductor superlattices

C L Roy

469
Investigations of surface characterization of silicone rubber due to tracking phenomena under a.c. and d.c. voltages

Uma Maheswar Rao, S S M S Abdul Majeed,
C Venkataseshaiah and R Sarathi

473

Flocculation of chromite ore fines suspension using polysaccharide based graft copolymers

 

N C Karmakar, B S Sastry and R P Singh

477
Purification of cadmium up to 5N+ by vacuum distillation

S T Ali, J V Rao, K S Varma and T L Prakash

479

Characteristics of HgCdTe epilayer grown by LPE using horizontal slider

 

J K Radhakrishnan, S Sitharaman and S C Gupta

483

Development of diamond coated tool and its performance in machining Al--11%Si alloy

 

B Sahoo, A K Chattopadhyay and A B Chattopadhyay

487

A novel technique for fabrication of near-net-shape CMCs

 

A Dey, M Chatterjee, M K Naskar, S Dalui and K Basu

493
Bi-layer functionally gradient thick film semiconducting methane sensors

A Banerjee, A K Haldar, J Mondal, A Sen and H S Maiti

497
Low temperature preparation of nanocrystalline solid solution of strontium barium niobate by chemical process

Asit B Panda, Amita Pathak and Panchanan Pramanik

501
Development of nano indium tin oxide (ITO) grains by alkaline hydrolysis of 
In(III) and Sn(IV) salts

Nimai Chand Pramanik and Prasanta Kumar Biswas

505

UV-photoactivation technique for size and shape controlled synthesis and
annealing of stable gold nano­particles in micelle

Madhuri Mandal, Subrata Kundu, Sujit Kumar Ghosh and Tarasankar Pal

509
Improved zinc oxide film for gas sensor applications

S Roy and S Basu

513

Structural, dielectric and electrical properties of Sm-modified Pb(SnTi)O3  
ferroelectric system

B P Das, R N P Choudhary and P K Mahapatra

517

Thermal sensor properties of PANI(EB)--CSAX (X = 0.4 ± 0.1 mol) polymer thin films

T Prakash, S A K Narayan Dass and K Prem Nazeer

521

Studies of properties of rubber wood with impregnation of polymer

Rashmi R Devi and T K Maji

527

Synthesis and performance of a novel polyurethaneurea as pervaporation membrane for the selective removal of phenol from industrial waste water

Tarakranjan Gupta, Narayan C Pradhan and Basudam Adhikari

533

Grafted hydroxypropyl guargum: Development, characterization and application
as flocculating agent

B R Nayak, D R Biswal, N C Karmakar and R P Singh

537

New semiconductor materials for magnetoelectronics at room temperature

S K Kamilla and S Basu

541

Tellurium purification: various techniques and limitations

D S Prasad, Ch Sudheer, N R Munirathnam and T L Prakash

545

Semiconductor applications of plasma immersion ion implantation technology

Mukesh Kumar, Rajkumar, Dinesh Kumar and P J George

549

Progress in deep-UV photoresists

P B Sahoo, R Vyas, M Wadhwa and S Verma

553

3-D mapping with ellipsometrically determined physical thickness/refractive index
of spin coated sol--gel silica layer

S Das, P Pal, S Roy, S Chakraboarty and P K Biswas

557

Synthesis of SiC from rice husk in a plasma reactor

S K Singh, B C Mohanty and S Basu

561

Shape forming of ceramics via gelcasting of aqueous particulate slurries

S Dhara, R K Kamboj, M Pradhan and P Bhargava

565

Effect of boric acid sintering aid on densification of barium ferrite

S S Vidyawathi, R Amaresh and L N Satapathy

569

Influence of quench rates on the properties of rapidly solidified FeNbCuSiB alloy

A K Panda, I Chattoraj, S Basu and A Mitra

573

Silver and gold nanocluster catalyzed reduction of methylene blue by arsine in
micellar medium

Subrata Kundu, Sujit Kumar Ghosh, Madhuri Mandal and Tarasankar Pal

577

Evolution, dissolution and reversible generation of gold and silver nanoclusters in
micelle by UV-activation

Sujit Kumar Ghosh, Subrata Kundu and Tarasankar Pal

581

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