Bulletin of Materials Science Volume 35, No. 3, June 2012

CONTENTS

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Supplementary Material 1
A theoretical study on interaction of proline with gold cluster
Sandhya Rai, N V Suresh Kumar and Harjinder Singh	291
A novel multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWNT)-based nanocomposite for PEFC electrodes
S Mohanapriya, K K Tintula, S D Bhat, S Pitchumani and P Sridhar	297
Effect of aligned carbon nanotubes on electrical conductivity behaviour in polycarbonate matrix
M M Larijani, E J Khamse, Z Asadollahi and M Asadi	305
Self-heating effect induced by ion bombardment on polycrystalline Al surface nanostructures evolution
H Wang, Y Zhen, H W Jiang and J T Liu	313
PLGA 50:50 nanoparticles of paclitaxel: Development, in vitro anti-tumor activity in BT-549 cells and in vivo evaluation
Ranjith K Averineni, Gopal V Shavi, Aravind K Gurram, Praful B Deshpunde, Karthik Arumugam, Naseer Muliyakkal, Sreenivasa R Mekaand Udupa Nayanabhirama	319
Influence of pH on ZnO nanocrystalline thin films prepared by sol–gel dip coating method
K Sivakumar, V Senthil Kumar, N Muthukumarasamy, M Thambidurai and T S Senthil	327
Use of silane coupling agent for surface modification of zinc oxide as inorganic filler and preparation of poly(amide–imide)/zinc oxidenanocomposite containing phenylalanine moieties
Shadpour Mallakpour and Maryam Madani	333
Structure and morphology studies of chromium film at elevated temperature in hypersonic environment
G M Hegde, V Kulkarni, M Nagaboopathy and K P J Reddy	341
ZnO–TiO2 nanocomposite: Characterization and moisture sensing studies
N K Pandey, K Tiwari and Akash Roy	347
Damping properties of epoxy-based composite embedded with sol–gel-derived Pb(Zr0·53Ti0·47)O3 thin film with different thicknesses
Guo Dongyun, Mao Wei, Qin Yan, Huang Zhixiong, Wang Chuanbin, Shen Qiang and Zhang Lianmeng	353
Property change during nanosecond pulse laser annealing of amorphous NiTi thin film
S K Sadrnezhaad, Noushin Yasavol, Mansoureh Ganjali and Sohrab Sanjabi	357
Aerosol assisted chemical vapour deposition of germanium thin films using organogermanium carboxylates as precursors and formation ofgermania films
Alpa Y Shah, Amey Wadawale, Vijaykumar S Sagoria, Vimal K Jain, C A Betty and S Bhattacharya	365
Supplementary Material 2
Controlled synthesis and electrochemical properties of vanadium oxides with different nanostructures
Yifu Zhang, Meijuan Fan, Min Zhou, Chi Huang, Chongxue Chen, Yuliang Cao, Guangyong Xie, Houbin Li and Xinghai Liu	369
Fabrication of nano-sized solid solution of Zn1-xMnxO (x = 0·05, 0·10, 0·15) in reverse microemulsions: Structural characterization and properties
Sarvari Khatoon, Aparna Ganguly and Tokeer Ahmad	377
Mixed mobile ion effect on a.c. conductivity of boroarsenate glasses
M Purnima, Shashidhar Bale, Ch Srinivasu, M A Samee and Syed Rahman	383
Effect of fluxing additive on sintering temperature, microstructure and properties of BaTiO3
Yaseen Iqbal, Asad Jamal, Riaz Ullah, M Naeem Khan and Rick Ubic	387
Modeling of austenite to ferrite transformation
Mohsen Kazeminezhad	395
Effect of nano-CeO2 on microstructure properties of TiC/TiN+nTi(CN) reinforced coating
Li Jianing, Chen Chuanzhong and Zhang Cuifang	399
Studies on biphenyl disulphonic acid doped polyanilines: Synthesis, characterization and electrochemistry
Chepuri R K Rao, R Muthukannan andMVijayan	405
Convenient synthetic method of starch/lactic acid graft copolymer catalyzed with sodium hydroxide
Qingling Wang, Yingmo Hu, Jianhua Zhu, Yang Liu, Xue Yang and Jing Bian	415
Synthesis of novel carbon/silica composites based strong acid catalyst and its catalytic activities for acetalization
Yueqing Lu, Xuezheng Liang and Chenze Qi	419
Electrical properties of SrxBa1-xFe0·6Sn0·4O3-ε NTC thermistors
C L Yuan, X Y Liu, J W Xu, X W Zhang and C R Zhou	425
Dielectric properties of CaCu2·9Co0·1Ti4O12 and CaCu3Ti3·9Co0·1O12 ceramics synthesized by semi-wet route
K D Mandal, Alok Kumar Rai, Laxman Singh and Om Parkash	433
Thermodynamic aspects of nanostructured Ti5Si3 formation during mechanical alloying and its characterization
S Sabooni, F Karimzadeh and M H Abbasi	439
Heat conduction and thermal stabilization in YBCO tape
Ziauddin Khan, Subrata Pradhan and Irfan Ahmad	449
Lyoluminescence in Ce3+ activated (KNa)Br phosphor for ionizing radiation dosimetry
P M Bhujbal and S J Dhoble	453
Experimental and quantum chemical studies on corrosion inhibition performance of quinoline derivatives for MS in 1 N HCl
B M Mistry, N S Patel, S Sahoo and S Jauhari	459
A comprehensive study on influence of Nd3+ substitution on properties of LiMn2O4
S Balaji, T Manichandran and D Mutharasu	471
Response surface method applied to optimization of estradiol permeation in chitosan membranes
Luciano Mengatto, María I Cabrera and Julio A Luna	481