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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Indian Foundry Journal- February 2013

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Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Physics-VOLUME 51 NUMBER 2 FEBRUARY 2013

 

CONTENTS

Electromagnetism, Optics, Acoustics, Heat Transfer, Classical Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics
Optical properties of PVC-MWCNT nano composites         Estabraq T Abdullah*, Salma M Hasan & Asama N Naje	77
Design and fabrication of aspherical microlenses used for a USB fiber-optic connector         Chuen-Lin Tien*, Yan-Nan Lin, Yu-Chung Chen, Der-Chin Chen, Wen-Shing Sun &Chern-Sheng Lin	81
Condensed Matter: Structural, Mechanical and Thermal Properties
Equation of state for nanomaterials from thermal expansion         R Kumar & Munish Kumar*	87
High pressure equation of state for nano materials         Kuldeep Kholiya	94
Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties
Simple method of controlling the resistivity of silver sulphide thin film prepared by chemical conversion technique         P Chattopadhyay* & S Guha Roy	98
Study of molecular interaction between some primary alcohols and anilines using concentration dependent dielectric properties         A N Prajapati, V A Rana* & A D Vyas	104
Electrostatic charge dissipation and electromagnetic interference shielding response of polyaniline based conducting fabrics         Parveen Saini* & Veena Choudhary	112
Neural network-based prediction of effective thermal conductivity of loose multi-phase systems         R S Bhoopal, P K Sharma, Sajjan Kumar, Ramvir Singh* & R S Beniwal	118
High field conduction in thin films of Se100-xPbx glassy alloys*         N Sharma & S Kumar*	125
Magneto-transport and mechanical properties of thermally evaporated Cd chalcogenide films         T M Rajakumar*, V Uma & R Chandramani	131

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Keyword Index

Amorphous semiconductors                        125

Antistatic fabrics                                          112

Artificial neural network                              118

Bruggeman parameter                                  104

Carbon nanotubes                                    77, 94

Chalcogenide glasses                                   125

Chemical conversion technique                      98

Conducting polymers                                   112

Effective thermal conductivity                      118

Elastic stiffness constant                              131

Electrical conductivity                                  112

Electromagnetic interference shielding         112

Electrostatic dissipation                                112

Equation of state                                      87, 94

Excess static dielectric constant                    104

Feedforward backpropagation                     118

Fiber-optic connector                                     81

Fluoro substituted anilines                           104

Hall effect                                                    131

High field conduction                                  125

High pressure                                                94

Hydrogen bonding                                       104

Localized states                                            125

Loose multi-phase systems                          118

Magneto resistance                                      131

Microlens                                                       81

Molecular ineraction                                    104

Multi Wall Carbon Nanotube                         77

Nanomaterial                                                  87

Optical properties                                           77

Optimization design                                       81

Polyaniline                                                   112

Polyvinyl chloride                                          77

Resistivity                                                      98

Space charge limited conduction                  125

Thermal expansion                                         87

Thin film                                                        98

Transverse magneto resistance                     131

Verticle-cavity surface emitting laser             81

Vicker’s hardness number                           131

Yield strength                                              131

International Journal of Vehicle Structures & Systems Volume 4 Issue 3

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Articles

Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures - Issues and Challenges	PDF
Ramesh Sundaram, G.M. Kamath, Nitesh Gupta

Innovative Material Systems for Composite Vehicle Structures	PDF
Prasad Potluri, Dhaval Jetavat , Paul Hogg

Advanced Reinforced Thermoplastic Composites for Mass Transit and Heavy Truck Applications	PDF
U.K. Vaidya, Selvum Brian Pillay, K. Balaji Thattai, Haibin Ning

Aircraft Composite Skin Stacking Sequence Generation using Genetic Algorithms	PDF
K. Sathyanarayana, V. Sandeep, K.R. Pradeep, D. Sujib, K. Ravindra, G.V.V. Ravi Kumar

Propagation of the Fundamental Symmetric Lamb Mode in a Symmetrically Delaminated Composite Laminate	PDF
C. Ramadas, Janardhan Padiyar, Krishnan Balasubramaniam, Makarand Joshi

Computed Tomography based Process Control of Composite Structures for In-service Defects	PDF
G. Ramesh Babu, B.N. Srinivasa Reddy, Krishna Murari

Study on Finite Element Modeling Aspects of Delaminated Honeycomb Sandwich Beams	PDF
K.R. Pradeep, S.M. Srinivasan, B. Nageswara Rao, K. Balasubramaniam

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