pp 1285-1288 December 2011

Structural and optical properties of zinc sulphide–polyvinyl alcohol (ZnS–PVA) nanocomposite thin films: effect of Zn source concentration

U Baishya D Sarkar

pp 1289-1296 December 2011

Preparation of novel polymer–metal oxide nanocomposites with nanophase separated hierarchical structure

K Nam Y Tsutsumi C Yoshikawa Y Tanaka R Fukaya T Kimura H Kobayashi T Hanawa A Kishida

pp 1297-1304 December 2011

Morphology, thermal, electrical and electrochemical stability of nano aluminium-oxide-filled polyvinyl alcohol composite gel electrolyte

Navin Chand Neelesh Rai S L Agrawal S K Patel

pp 1305-1308 December 2011

Dielectric behaviour of nano-crystalline spinel Ni_0.2Ca_0.8Fe₂O₄ and their nano-composite with polypyrrole

Arun S Prasad S N Dolia P Predeep

pp 1309-1311 December 2011

Fabrication and characterization of Ti₃SiC₂–SiC nanocomposite by in situ reaction synthesis of TiC/Si/Al powders

Baoyan Liang Mingzhi Wang Xiaopu Li Yunchao Mu

pp 1313-1317 December 2011

Solvothermal synthesis and characterization of acicular 𝛼-Fe₂O₃ nanoparticles

S Basavaraja D S Balaji Mahesh D Bedre D Raghunandan P M Prithviraj Swamy A Venkataraman

pp 1319-1323 December 2011

Barium ferrite nanoparticles prepared by self-propagating low-temperature combustion method and its characterization

P M Prithviraj Swamy S Basavaraja Vijayanand Havanoor N V Srinivas Rao R Nijagunappa A Venkataraman

pp 1325-1330 December 2011

Synthesis and characterization of zinc ferrite nanoparticles obtained by self-propagating low-temperature combustion method

P M Prithviraj Swamy S Basavaraja Arunkumar Lagashetty N V Srinivas Rao R Nijagunappa A Venkataraman

pp 1331-1338 December 2011

Synthesis of one-dimensional N-doped Ga₂O₃ nanostructures: different morphologies and different mechanisms

S C Vanithakumari K K Nanda

pp 1339-1344 December 2011

Synthesis and characterization of mixture of nanozirconia and nanosilica obtained from commercially available zircon flour by sol–gel method

A J K Prasad S M Shashidhara B K Muralidhara

pp 1345-1350 December 2011

Influence of preparation method on structural and magnetic properties of nickel ferrite nanoparticles

Binu P Jacob Ashok Kumar R P Pant Sukhvir Singh E M Mohammed

pp 1351-1355 December 2011

Photoconductivity and high-field effects in amorphous Se₈₃Te₁₅Zn₂ thin film

S Shukla S Kumar

pp 1357-1361 December 2011

Using speciation diagrams to improve synthesis of magnetic nanosorbents for environmental applications

A F C Campos R Aquino T A P G Cotta F A Tourinho J Depeyrot

pp 1363-1369 December 2011

Effect of aging on copper nanoparticles synthesized by pulsed laser ablation in water: structural and optical characterizations

R K Swarnkar S C Singh R Gopal

pp 1371-1374 December 2011

Hydrothermal synthesis of NaEuF4 spindle-like nanocrystals

Zhi-Jun Wang Feng Tao Wei-Li Cai Lian-Zeng Yao Xiao-Guang Li

pp 1375-1378 December 2011

Laser annealing of sputter-deposited 𝑎-SiC and 𝑎-SiC_𝑥N_𝑦 films

M A Fraga M Massi I C Oliveira F D Origo W Miyakawa

pp 1379-1383 December 2011

Preparation and characterization of LaNiO₃ films grown by metal–organic deposition

Yao Wang Guofang Zhang Chengshan Li Guo Yan Yafeng Lu

pp 1385-1391 December 2011

Effect of Mn doping on electrical properties and accelerated ageing behaviours of ternary ZVM varistors

C-W Nahm

pp 1393-1399 December 2011

Dielectric and impedance spectroscopic studies of (Sr_1–𝑥Pb_𝑥)TiO₂ glass ceramics with addition of Nb₂O₅

C R Gautam Devendra Kumar Om Parkash

pp 1401-1405 December 2011

Dielectric behaviour of Pb-substituted BZT ceramics

Parveen Kumar Sangeeta Singh J K Juneja K K Raina Chandra Prakash

pp 1407-1413 December 2011

High performance of low cost soft magnetic materials

Josefina M Silveyra Emília Illeková Marco Coïsson Federica Celegato Franco Vinai Paola Tiberto Javier A Moya Victoria J Cremaschi

pp 1415-1419 December 2011

Influence of temperature on structural and magnetic properties of Co_0.5Mn_0.5Fe₂O₄ ferrites

S M Ramay Murtaza Saleem S Atiq Saadat A Siddiqi S Naseem M Sabieh Anwar

pp 1421-1434 December 2011

Effect of thermomechanical processing on evolution of various phases in Ti–Nb alloys

S Banumathy K S Prasad R K Mandal A K Singh

pp 1435-1438 December 2011

Annealing twins in a multifunctional beta Ti–Nb–Ta–Zr–O alloy

W Y Guo J Sun

pp 1439-1445 December 2011

Heat treatment and effects of Cr and Ni in low alloy steel

Mohammad Abdur Razzak

pp 1447-1453 December 2011

Low temperature enhanced ductility of friction stir processed 5083 aluminum alloy

Ehab A El-Danaf Magdy M El-Rayes Mahmoud S Soliman

pp 1455-1458 December 2011

Small-angle scattering from GP zones in Al–Cu alloy

K T Kashyap Praveennath G Koppad

pp 1459-1463 December 2011

Calorimetric studies of non-isothermal crystallization in amorphous Cu_𝑥Ti_100–𝑥 alloys

N Mehta K Singh N S Saxena

pp 1465-1470 December 2011

Effect of ageing treatment on wear properties and electrical conductivity of Cu–Cr–Zr alloy

Ibrahim Sağlam Dursun Özyürek Kerim Çetinkaya

pp 1471-1476 December 2011

Effect of grain boundary misorientation on discontinuous precipitation in an AZ91 alloy

H Azzeddine S Abdessameud B Alili Z Boumerzoug D Bradai

pp 1477-1482 December 2011

Rapid heating effects on grain-size, texture and magnetic properties of 3% Si non-oriented electrical steel

Jian Wang Jun Li Xinfeng Wang Xiaochuan Mi Shengen Zhang

pp 1483-1489 December 2011

Effect of Zr on dielectric, ferroelectric and impedance properties of BaTiO₃ ceramic

Sandeep Mahajan O P Thakur Chandra Prakash K Sreenivas

pp 1491-1494 December 2011

Effect of substitution of titanium by magnesium and niobium on structure and piezoelectric properties in (Bi_1/2Na_1/2)TiO₃ ceramics

Zhou Chang-Rong Liu Xin-Yu Li Wei-Zhou Yuan Chang-Lai

pp 1495-1500 December 2011

Mathematical aspects of Rietveld refinement and crystal structure studies on PbTiO₃ ceramics

Niranjan Sahu S Panigrahi

pp 1501-1506 December 2011

Ce-doped LCMO CMR manganites: a consequence of enhanced $T_{c}$ and $T_{\text{IM}}$

D K Mishra D R Sahu P K Mishra S K Singh B K Mohapatra B K Roul

pp 1507-1510 December 2011

Formation of ternary Mg–Cu–Dy bulk metallic glasses

X F Wu Y Kang F F Wu K Q Qiu L K Meng

pp 1511-1516 December 2011

Effects of MO (M = Mg, Ca, Ba) on crystallization and flexural strength of semi-transparent lithium disilicate glass–ceramics

Zhiwei Luo Junlin Zhou Jing Li Changjian Zhang Anxian Lu

pp 1517-1524 December 2011

Superconducting state parameters of ternary metallic glasses

Aditya M Vora

pp 1525-1530 December 2011

Effect of complexing salt on conductivity of PVC/PEO polymer blend electrolytes

S Rajendran Ravi Shanker Babu M Usha Rani

pp 1531-1536 December 2011

Preparation of semi-IPN(BA–VAc–VAE) by emulsion polymerization and its properties investigation

Shi Luo Zonghui Liu Bailing Liu Qi Liu

pp 1537-1547 December 2011

Synthesis and characterization of polycaprolactone/acrylic acid (PCL/AA) hydrogel for controlled drug delivery

Nazar Mohammad Ranjha Jahanzeb Mudassir Sajid Majeed

pp 1549-1555 December 2011

Tribological effects of polymer surface modification through plastic deformation

K O Low K J Wong

pp 1557-1561 December 2011

Synthesis, characterization and magnetic properties of polyaniline/𝛾-Fe₂O₃ composites

Syed Khasim S C Raghavendra M Revanasiddappa K C Sajjan Mohana Lakshmi Muhammad Faisal

pp 1563-1567 December 2011

Drilling analysis of coir–fibre-reinforced polyester composites

S Jayabal U Natarajan

pp 1569-1573 December 2011

Effect of ZnO loading technique on textural characteristic and methyl blue removal capacity of exfoliated graphite/ZnO composites

Xueqing Yue Wenyan Duan Yan Lu Fucheng Zhang Ruijun Zhang

pp 1575-1581 December 2011

Effect of fibre content and alkali treatment on mechanical properties of Roystonea regia-reinforced epoxy partially biodegradable composites

Govardhan Goud R N Rao

pp 1583-1590 December 2011

Changes in microstructural parameters of NB4D2 silk fibres due to electron irradiation: X-ray line profile analysis

Sangappa S Asha P Parameswara R Somashekar

pp 1591-1597 December 2011

Hot pressing effect on (Bi_0.25Sb_0.75)₂Te₃ mechanical and thermoelectric properties

G Kavei K Ahmadi A Seyyedi

pp 1599-1604 December 2011

Synthesis and in situ mechanism of nuclei growth of layered double hydroxides

H S Panda R Srivastava D Bahadur

pp 1605-1610 December 2011

Synthesis, characterization and catalytic performance of a novel zeolite ITQ-2-like by treating MCM-22 precursor with H₂O₂

Ling Xu Haijun Xing Shujie Wu Jingqi Guan Ming Jun Jia Qiubin Kan

pp 1611-1615 December 2011

Effect of thin Mo₂C layer on thermal stability of Si/SiO₂/Ti/Cu system

C C Tripathi Mukesh Kumar Dinesh Kumar

pp 1617-1625 December 2011

Structural, elastic and thermodynamic properties of Ti₂SC

Hongzhi Fu Wenfang Liu Tao Gao

pp 1627-1631 December 2011

DLTS study of annihilation of oxidation induced deep-level defects in Ni/SiO₂/𝑛-Si MOS structures

N Shashank Sanjeev K Gupta K V Madhu J Akhtar R Damle

pp 1633-1637 December 2011

Estimation of vapour pressure and partial pressure of subliming compounds by low-pressure thermogravimetry

G V Kunte Ujwala Ail P K Ajikumar A K Tyagi S A Shivashankar A M Umarji

pp 1639-1644 December 2011

Solid-state titania-based gas sensor for liquefied petroleum gas detection at room temperature

B C Yadav Anuradha Yadav Tripti Shukla Satyendra Singh

pp 1645-1648 December 2011

Fermi-edge singularity in photoluminescence spectra of modulation-doped AlGaAs/InGaAs/GaAs quantum wells

K Gopalakrishna Naik K S R K Rao T Srinivasan R Muralidharan

pp 1649-1651 December 2011

Blue-shifted photoluminescence of Alq₃ dispersed in PMMA

J G Mahakhode S J Dhoble C P Joshi S V Moharil

pp 1653-1661 December 2011

Spray-drying of alumina powder for APS: effect of slurry properties and drying conditions upon particle size and morphology of feedstock

Bai Yu Yang Jian Feng Lee Soo Wohn Chen Huang Yu Fang Li Zhang Jia

pp 1663-1670 December 2011

Effect of size of fly ash particle on enhancement of mullite content and glass formation

Parveen Sultana Sukhen Das Biswajoy Bagchi Alakananda Bhattacharya Ruma Basu Papiya Nandy

pp 1671-1674 December 2011

Kaliophilite from fly ash: synthesis, characterization and stability

Yao Zhitong Xia Meisheng Ye Ying Zhang Lu

pp 1675-1681 December 2011

Uptake of permanganate from aqueous environment by surfactant modified montmorillonite batch and fixed bed studies

N Mahadevaiah B Vijayakumar K Hemalatha B S Jai Prakash

pp 1683-1687 December 2011

Preparation of an efficient humidity indicating silica gel from rice husk ash

J P Nayak J Bera

pp 1689-1692 December 2011

Improvement of multicrystalline silicon wafer solar cells by post-fabrication wet-chemical etching in phosphoric acid

A Mefoued M Fathi J Bhatt A Messaoud B Palahouane N Benrekaa

pp 1693-1698 December 2011

Nitrates–melt synthesized LiNi_0.8Co_0.2O₂ and its performance as cathode in Li-ion cells

M Sathiya K Hemalatha K Ramesha A K Shukla A S Prakash

pp 1699-1706 December 2011

Corrosion resistant Zn–Co alloy coatings deposited using saw-tooth current pulse

S Yogesha A Chitharanjan Hegde

pp 1707-1714 December 2011

Effect of heat treatment temperature on microstructure and electrochemical properties of hollow carbon spheres prepared in high-pressure argon

Boyang Liu Yun Zhou Dechang Jia Pengjian Zuo Yingfeng Shao Jingwei Zhang

pp 1715-1719 December 2011

Biodegradable poly(lactic acid) microspheres containing total alkaloids of Caulis sinomenii

Wen Zhang Xiaojie Lin Xingxiang Zhang

pp 1721-1731 December 2011

Tissue-engineered triphasic ceramic coated hydroxyapatite induced bone formation and vascularization at an extraskeletal site in a rat model

Manitha B Nair H K Varma P V Mohanan Annie John

pp 1733-1737 December 2011

Influence of preparation method on hydroxyapatite porous scaffolds

N Monmaturapoj C Yatongchai

pp 1739-1748 December 2011

Evaluation of starch based cryogels as potential biomaterials for controlled release of antibiotic drugs

L P Bagri J Bajpai A K Bajpai

pp 1749-1753 December 2011

Synthesis of hydroxyapatite nanopowders by sol–gel emulsion technique

K Saranya Meenal Kowshik Sutapa Roy Ramanan

pp 1755-1782 December 2011

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