Bulletin of Materials Science Volume 35, No. 7, December 2012

CONTENTS

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Development, characterization, sintering, dielectric and optical properties of NdBa2ZrO5∙5 nanocrystals
V Ratheesh Kumar, P R S Wariar, R Pazhani, J K Thomas, R Jose and J Koshy	1039
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 and Hitotaka Manaka	1047
First principles results of structural and electronic properties of ZnS clusters
D L Lalsare and Anjali Kshirsagar	1055
Polymer–clay nanocomposites via chemical grafting of polyacrylonitrile onto cloisite 20A
Yagoub Mansoori, Khadijeh Roojaei, Mohammad Reza Zamanloo and Gholamhassan Imanzadeh	1063
Anticorrosives, encapsulates, catalytic supports and other novel nanostructured materials
Genoveva Hernández-Padrón, Laura S Acosta-Torres, Fernando Rojas-González and Victor M Castaño	1071
Chemically ordered face centred tetragonal Fe–Pt nanoparticles embedded SiO2 films
Sourav Pramanik and Goutam De	1079
Characterization of amorphous hydrogenated carbon films deposited by MFPUMST at different ratios of mixed gases
Haiyang Dai, Changyong Zhan, Hui Jiang and Ningkang Huang	1087
Electroless plating and magnetic properties of Co–Zn–P coating on short carbon fibres
Xinghua Su and Chengwen Qiang	1093
Effect of surface modification of Grewia optiva fibres on their physicochemical and thermal properties
Amar S Singha and Ashvinder K Rana	1099
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 and Kazuo Kasatani	1111
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 and P K Barhai	1117
Characterization of carboxy methylcellulose doped with DTAB as new types of biopolymer electrolytes
A S Samsuddin and M I N Isa	1123
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 and N P Jivani	1133
Effect of surface modification and hybridization on dynamic mechanical properties of Roystonea regia/glass–epoxy composites
Goverdhan Goud and R N Rao	1143
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 and O M Al-Shuja’a	1151
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 and T P Sastry	1157
Dielectric behaviour of sodium and potassium doped magnesium titanate
Vishnu Shanker, Santosh Kumar and T Surendar	1165
Photochemical events during photosensitization of colloidal ZnO nanoparticles by riboflavin
E Vaishnavi and R Renganathan	1173
Chemically deposited TiO2/CdS bilayer system for photoelectrochemical properties
P R Deshmukh, U M Patil, K V Gurav, S B Kulkarni and C D Lokhande	1181
Synthesis of vanadium oxides 5 wt% VO2–MxOy by sol–gel process and application in cyclohexene epoxidation
S El-Korso, I Rekkab, A Choukchou-Braham, S Bedrane, L Pirault-Roy and C Kappenstein	1187
Amino acid-assisted synthesis of strontium hydroxyapatite bone cement by a soft solution freezing method
D Gopi, S Nithiya, L Kavitha and J M F Ferreira	1195
Biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles by marine bacterium, Idiomarina sp. PR58-8
Sachin Seshadri, Anupama Prakash and Meenal Kowshik	1201
Subject index	1207
Author index	1227
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