pp 1039-1045 December 2012

Development, characterization, sintering, dielectric and optical properties of NdBa₂ZrO_5.5 nanocrystals

V Ratheesh Kumar P R S Wariar R Pazhani J K Thomas R Jose J Koshy

pp 1047-1053 December 2012

A comparative study on heat dissipation, morphological and magnetic properties of hyperthermia suitable nanoparticles prepared by co-precipitation and hydrothermal methods

Md Shariful Islam Yoshihumi Kusumoto Junichi Kurawaki Md Abdulla-Al-Mamun Hirotaka Manaka

pp 1055-1062 December 2012

First principles results of structural and electronic properties of ZnS clusters

D L Lalsare Anjali Kshirsagar

pp 1063-1070 December 2012

Polymer–clay nanocomposites via chemical grafting of polyacrylonitrile onto cloisite 20A

YAGOUB MANSOORI Khadijeh Roojaei Mohammad Reza Zamanloo Gholamhassan Imanzadeh

pp 1071-1077 December 2012

Anticorrosives, encapsulates, catalytic supports and other novel nanostructured materials

Genoveva Hernández-Padrón Laura S Acosta-Torres Fernando Rojas-González Víctor M Castaño

pp 1079-1085 December 2012

Chemically ordered face-centred tetragonal Fe–Pt nanoparticles embedded SiO₂ films

Sourav Pramanik Goutam De

pp 1087-1091 December 2012

Characterization of amorphous hydrogenated carbon films deposited by MFPUMST at different ratios of mixed gases

Haiyang Dai Changyong Zhan Hui Jiang Ningkang Huang

pp 1093-1097 December 2012

Electroless plating and magnetic properties of Co–Zn–P coating on short carbon fibres

Xinghua Su Chengwen Qiang

pp 1099-1110 December 2012

Effect of surface modification of Grewia optiva fibres on their physicochemical and thermal properties

Amar S Singha Ashvinder K Rana

pp 1111-1116 December 2012

Large resonant third-order optical nonlinearity of thin film containing J-like aggregates of a bis[4-(𝑁-dibutylamino)phenyl]squarylium dye

Zhongyu Li Song Xu Lin Zhu Kazuo Kasatani

pp 1117-1121 December 2012

Influence of bowl shaped substrate holder on growth of polymeric DLC film in a microwave plasma CVD reactor

Sambita Sahoo S K Pradhan Venkateswarlu Bhavanasi Swati S Pradhan S N Sarangi P K Barhai

pp 1123-1131 December 2012

Characterization of carboxy methylcellulose doped with DTAB as new types of biopolymer electrolytes

A S Samsudin M I N Isa

pp 1133-1142 December 2012

Synthesis and characterization of carboxymethyl chitosan hydrogel: Application as site specific delivery for lercanidipine hydrochloride

Subhash S Vaghani Madhabhai M Patel C S Satish Kandarp M Patel N P Jivani

pp 1143-1149 December 2012

Effect of surface modification and hybridization on dynamic mechanical properties of Roystonea regia/glass–epoxy composites

Govardhan Goud R N Rao

pp 1151-1155 December 2012

Effect of pMDI isocyanate additive on mechanical and thermal properties of Kenaf fibre reinforced thermoplastic polyurethane composites

Y A El-Shekeil S M Sapuan K Abdan E S Zainudin O M Al-Shuja’a

pp 1157-1163 December 2012

A novel wound dressing material — fibrin–chitosan–sodium alginate composite sheet

M Pandima Devi M Sekar M Chamundeswari A Moorthy G Krithiga N Selva Murugan T P Sastry

pp 1165-1171 December 2012

Dielectric behaviour of sodium and potassium doped magnesium titanate

Vishnu Shanker Santosh Kumar T Surendar

pp 1173-1179 December 2012

Photochemical events during photosensitization of colloidal ZnO nanoparticles by riboflavin

E Vaishnavi R Renganathan

pp 1181-1186 December 2012

Chemically deposited TiO₂/CdS bilayer system for photoelectrochemical properties

P R Deshmukh U M Patil K V Gurav S B Kulkarni C D Lokhande

pp 1187-1194 December 2012

Synthesis of vanadium oxides 5 wt.%VO₂–M_𝑥O_𝑦 by sol–gel process and application in cyclohexene epoxidation

S El-Korso I Rekkab A Choukchou-Braham S Bedrane L Pirault-Roy C Kappenstein

pp 1195-1199 December 2012

Amino acid-assisted synthesis of strontium hydroxyapatite bone cement by a soft solution freezing method

D Gopi S Nithiya L Kavitha J M F Ferreira

pp 1201-1205 December 2012

Biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles by marine bacterium, Idiomarina sp. PR58-8

Sachin Seshadri Anupama Prakash Meenal Kowshik

pp 1207-1226 December 2012

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