Bulletin of Materials Science

Volume 29, No. 6, November 2006

CONTENTS

Cover: Bright-field and high-resolution TEM image with electron diffraction pattern of Co-ferrite powder after milling for 1×5 h. For details, see p. 579.

First Indo-Singapore Symposium on “Advanced Functional Materials”, Mumbai, 2006

FOREWORD	547
Synthesis of B–Sb by rapid thermal annealing of B/Sb multilayer films
S N Das and A K Pal	549
Surface plasmon effect in nanocrystalline copper/DLC composite films by electrodeposition technique
S Hussain and A K Pal	553
Optoelectronic and nonlinear optical processes in low dimensional semiconductors
B P Singh	559
A typical example of a photomagnetic study carried out on a spin-crossover material
Jean-François Létard, Chiara Carbonera, Emilie Courcot and José Sanchez Costa	567
High coercivity in nanostructured Co-ferrite thin films
J H Yin, B H Liu, J Ding and Y C Wang	573
*Towards a versatile platform based on magnetic nanoparticles for in vivo* applications**
E Duguet, S Vasseur, S Mornet, G Goglio, A Demourgues, J Portier, F Grasset, P Veverka and E Pollert	581
Energy landscapes for mobile ions in ion conducting solids
S Adams	587
Assembly of Fe₃O₄ nanoparticles on SiO₂ monodisperse spheres
K C Barick and D Bahadur	595
Morphological control and polarization switching in polymer dispersed liquid crystal materials and devices
K K Raina, Pankaj Kumar and Praveen Malik	599
Analysis of organometallics dispersed polymer composite irradiated with oxygen ions
N L Singh, Anjum Qureshi, A K Rakshit and D K Avasthi	605
*Synthesis of nanocrystalline fluorinated hydroxyapatite by microwave processing and its in vitro* dissolution study**
N Rameshbabu, T S Sampath Kumar and K Prasad Rao	611
One-pot size and shape controlled synthesis of DMSO capped iron oxide nanoparticles
Debanjan Guin, Sunkara V Manorama, S Radha and A K Nigam	617
First order magneto-structural transition in functional magnetic materials: phase-coexistence and metastability
S B Roy, M K Chattopadhyay, M A Manekar, K J S Sokhey and P Chaddah	623
Role of spin polarized tunneling in magnetoresistance and low temperature minimum of polycrystalline La_1–xK_xMnO₃ (x = 0×05, 0×1, 0×15) prepared by pyrophoric method
Soma Das and T K Dey	633
Magnetoactive elastomeric composites: Cure, tensile, electrical and magnetic properties
K Sasikumar, G Suresh, K A Thomas, Reji John, V Natarajan, T Mukundan and R M R Vishnubhatla	637
Functional finishing in cotton fabrics using zinc oxide nanoparticles
A Yadav, Virendra Prasad, A A Kathe, Sheela Raj, Deepti Yadav, C Sundaramoorthy and N Vigneshwaran	641
Effect of annealing on magnetic properties and silicide formation at Co/Si interface
Shivani Agarwal, V Ganesan, A K Tyagi and I P Jain	647