1. Foreword

   • P Rama Rao
   • K J Rao
   • S Ranganathan

   EditorialNotes Pages: 1197 - 1197

2. Heparin bonding: Then and now

   • M S Valiathan

   Announcement Pages: 1199 - 1213

3. Positron annihilation spectroscopy in materials science

   • C S Sundar

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1215 - 1232

4. Growth and characterization of some novel crystals for nonlinear optical applications

   • H L Bhat

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1233 - 1249

5. Grain-boundary scattering in semiconductor films

   • A K Pal

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1251 - 1258

6. Magnetoelectric interaction phenomena in materials

   • S V Suryanarayana

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1259 - 1270

7. Non-resonant RF and microwave response: A novel technique for the characterization of superconducting materials

   • S V Bhat

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1271 - 1285

8. Growth and applications of superconducting and nonsuperconducting oxide epitaxial films

   • M S Hegde

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1287 - 1297

9. Surfactants: materials for interface design and spontaneous formation of structures

   • C Manohar

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1299 - 1306

10. Polymer structure effect on gas permeation characteristics in polyarylates

    • S S Kulkarni

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1307 - 1315

11. Biomaterials: Role of surface modifications

    • Chandra P Sharma

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1317 - 1329

12. Trends in corrosion protection of materials

    • K Balakrishnan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1331 - 1339

13. Modelling high-temperature creep of anisotropic material

    • R N Ghosh

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1341 - 1350

14. Indigenization of high-strength, light-weight Al-Li alloys for aerospace

    • C R Chakravorty

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1351 - 1367

15. Challenge, response and serendipity in the design of materials

    • R W Cahn

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1369 - 1378

16. Growth of diamond thin films by chemical vapour deposition

    • A K Kulkarni

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1379 - 1391

17. The magnetic metrology of materials—A review

    • J Sievert
    • H Ahlers

    ReviewPaper Pages: 1393 - 1399

18. Selective semiconductor sensors for reducing and oxidizing gases

    • G S V Coles

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1401 - 1409

19. Magnetic ferroelectric materials

    • H Schmid

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1411 - 1414

20. Studies of diamond-like carbon films prepared by ion beam-assisted deposition

    • Heng-de Li
    • Xiao-Ming He

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1415 - 1434

21. Processing and properties of zirconia-toughened alumina ceramics

    • D S Patil
    • B C Mutsuddy

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1435 - 1439

22. Microwave sintering of yttria-containing tetragonal zirconia polycrystal (Y-TZP) ceramics

    • D S Patil
    • B C Mutsuddy

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1441 - 1446

23. Structural characterization of gel-grown neodymium copper oxalate single crystals

    • K S Raju
    • K N Krishna
    • M A Ittyachen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1447 - 1455

24. Photoluminescence of gold-doped (Zn, Cd)S mixed phosphors

    • Sanjay Tiwari
    • Shikha Mishra
    • B P Chandra

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1457 - 1465

25. Spectrophotometric determination of Ce(IV) usingo-phenylenediamine in steels

    • Archana Agrawal
    • K Chandra Sekhar
    • L P Pandey

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1467 - 1471

26. A correlation analysis of isothermal crystallization of long paraffins

    • G P Bahuguna
    • V D Gupta
    • C Mehrotra

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1473 - 1485