Bulletin of Materials Science

Volume 31, No. 5, October 2008

CONTENTS

Cover: Scanning electron micrograph of B-doped TiO₂ thin films (3% B), grown on Si wafer and annealed at 600°C showing the B atom segregated like roots. For details, see p. 743.

Note on plagiarism

Nanomaterials
Effect of ferrous/ferric ions molar ratio on reaction mechanism for hydrothermal synthesis of magnetite nanoparticles
N Mizutani, T Iwasaki, S Watano, T Yanagida, H Tanaka and T Kawai	713
Synthesis, characterization, sintering and dielectric properties of nanostructured perovskite-type oxide, Ba₂GdSbO₆
C Vijayakumar, H Padma Kumar, Sam Solomon, J K Thomas, P R S Warriar and J Koshy	719

Thin Films
Thermodynamic analysis of growth of iron oxide films by MOCVD using tris(t-butyl-3-oxo-butanoato) iron(III) as precursor
Sukanya Dhar, K Shalini and S A Shivashankar	723
Electroless deposition, post annealing and characterization of nickel films on silicon
Subir Sabharwal, Siddharth Palit, R B Tokas, A K Poswal and Sangeeta	729
Simulation studies on the effect of a buffer layer on the external parameters of hydrogenated amorphous silicon p–i–n solar cells
K Rajeev Kumar and M Zeman	737
Characterization and photocatalytic activity of boron-doped TiO₂ thin films prepared by liquid phase deposition technique
Noor Shahina Begum, H M Farveez Ahmed and O M Hussain	741
Effects of Ni doping on photocatalytic activity of TiO₂ thin films prepared by liquid phase deposition technique
Noor Shahina Begum, H M Farveez Ahmed and K R Gunashekar	747
p-AgCoO₂/n-ZnO heterojunction diode grown by rf magnetron sputtering
K A Vanaja, Umananda M Bhatta, R S Ajimsha, S Jayalekshmi and M K Jayaraj	753

Magnetic Materials
Strain induced anomalous red shift in mesoscopic iron oxide prepared by a novel technique
T N Narayanan, D Sakthi Kumar, Yasuhiko Yoshida and M R Anantharaman	759
Development and characterization of nickel–zinc spinel ferrite for microwave absorption at 2×4 GHz
A Kakirde, B Sinha and S N Sinha	767

Carbon Materials
A novel method for preparation of hollow and solid carbon spheres
Boyang Liu, Dechang Jia, Jiancun Rao, Qiangchang Meng and Yingfeng Shao	771

Ceramics and Glasses
Fourier transform infrared spectroscopic estimation of crystallinity in SiO₂ based rocks
Bhaskar J Saikia, G Parthasarathy and N C Sarmah	775
Low-frequency Raman scattering in alkali tellurite glasses
Angelos G Kalampounias	781

Composites
Synthesis of TiO₂-doped SiO₂ composite films and its applications
Xiaojun Zhang and Huagui Zheng	787
Mechanical properties of natural fibre reinforced polymer composites
A S Singha and Vijay Kumar Thakur	791
Effect of heat treatment on structure and magnetic properties of FeCoNi/CNTs nanocomposites
H Q Wu, D M Xu, Q Wang, Y Z Yao, Q Y Wang and G Q Su	801
Characterization of PAN/ATO nanocomposites prepared by solution blending
Wei Pan and Hantao Zou	807

Mechanical Properties
Optical and mechanical properties of diamond like carbon films deposited by microwave ECR plasma CVD
S B Singh, M Pandey, N Chand, A Biswas, D Bhattacharya, S Dash, A K Tyagi, R M Dey, S K Kulkarni and D S Patil	813

Electrochemistry
Synthesis and characterization of electroless Ni–P coated graphite particles
M Ananth Kumar, Ramesh Chandra Agarwala and Vijaya Agarwala	819