pp 505-505 November 2008 New Directions of Research in Molecules and Materials

Foreword

T Pradeep Umesh V Waghmare

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Facially amphiphilic thiol capped gold and silver nanoparticles

Shreedhar Bhata Uday Maitra

pp 515-520 November 2008 New Directions of Research in Molecules and Materials

Synthesis of silver nanoparticles by sophorolipids: Effect of temperature and sophorolipid structure on the size of particles

M B Kasture P Patel A A Prabhune C V Ramana A A Kulkarni B L V Prasad

pp 521-528 November 2008 New Directions of Research in Molecules and Materials

Role of carboxylate ion and metal oxidation state on the morphology and magnetic properties of nanostructured metal carboxylates and their decomposition products

Aparna Ganguly Rituparna Kundu Kandalam V Ramanujachary Samuel E Lofland Dipankar Dase N Y Vasanthacharya Tokeer Ahmad Ashok K Ganguli

pp 529-536 November 2008 New Directions of Research in Molecules and Materials

Nanostructured phosphomolybdates

J Thomas K R Kannan A Ramanan

pp 537-546 November 2008 New Directions of Research in Molecules and Materials

Removal of phase transfer agent leads to restricted dynamics of alkyl chains in monolayer protected clusters

V R Rajeev Kumar R Mukhopadhyay T Pradeep

pp 547-555 November 2008 New Directions of Research in Molecules and Materials

𝑝-Aminoacetanilide mediated formation of assembly of Au nanoparticles

Subhojit Das A Murugadoss Santu Sarkar Arun Chattopadhyay

pp 557-564 November 2008 New Directions of Research in Molecules and Materials

Synthesis and spectroscopic study of high quality alloy Cd$_x$Zn$_{1-x}$S nanocrystals

Suparna Sadhu Amitava Patra

pp 565-572 November 2008 New Directions of Research in Molecules and Materials

Tuning of Ag-SPR band position in refractive index controlled inorganic-organic hybrid SiO₂-PEO-TiO₂ films

Samar Kumar Medda Moumita Mitra Goutam De

pp 573-578 November 2008 New Directions of Research in Molecules and Materials

Two approaches for enhancing the hydrogenation properties of palladium: Metal nanoparticle and thin film over layers

Manika Khanuja B R Mehta S M Shivaprasad

pp 579-586 November 2008 New Directions of Research in Molecules and Materials

Synthesis of agarose-metal/semiconductor nanoparticles having superior bacteriocidal activity and their simple conversion to metal-carbon composites

K K R Datta B Srinivasan H Balaram M Eswaramoorthy

pp 587-594 November 2008 New Directions of Research in Molecules and Materials

Investigation of hybrid molecular material prepared by ionic liquid and polyoxometalate anion

T Rajkumar G Ranga Rao

pp 595-598 November 2008 New Directions of Research in Molecules and Materials

Magnetocaloric effect across the coupled structural and ferromagnetic transition in Pr_0.1Ce_0.4Sr_0.5MnO₃

C Madhu A Sundaresan

pp 599-606 November 2008 New Directions of Research in Molecules and Materials

Near-complete phase transfer of single-wall carbon nanotubes by covalent functionalization

Bhalchandra Kakade Sanjay Patil Bhaskar Sathe Suresh Gokhale Vijayamohanan Pillai

pp 607-611 November 2008 New Directions of Research in Molecules and Materials

Covalent and non-covalent functionalization and solubilization of double-walled carbon nanotubes in nonpolar and aqueous media

L S Panchakarla A Govindaraj

pp 613-620 November 2008 New Directions of Research in Molecules and Materials

Charge density analysis of two proton transfer complexes: Understanding hydrogen bonding and determination of in-crystal dipole moments

Reji Thomas Shrinwantu Pal Ayan Datta Mariusz K Marchewka Henryk Ratajczak Swapan K Pati G U Kulkarni

pp 621-626 November 2008 New Directions of Research in Molecules and Materials

Competition between elastic and chemical effects in the intermixing of Co and Ag on Rh(111)

Mighfar Imam Madhura Marathe Shobhana Narasimhan

pp 627-635 November 2008 New Directions of Research in Molecules and Materials

Molecular modelling of a chemodosimeter for the selective detection of As(III) ion in water

Sairam S Mallajosyula Usha H Ayan Datta Swapan K Pati

pp 637-643 November 2008 New Directions of Research in Molecules and Materials

Surfactant controlled switching of water-in-oil wetting behaviour of porous silica films grown at oil-water interfaces

Manish M Kulkarni Rajdip Bandyopadhyaya Ashutosh Sharma

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Subject Index

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Author Index