1. Dedication

   • C N R Rao

   Announcement Pages: i - ii

2. Raman spectroscopy of intermediate valent (IV) systems: Electron-phonon coupling and charge fluctuation

   • A Jayaraman

   OriginalPaper Pages: 185 - 197

3. Mercury chalcogenides under pressure

   • T G Ramesh
   • V Shubha
   • P S Gopalakrishnan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 199 - 206

4. High pressure studies of liquid crystalline transitions: Recent results

   • R Shashidar

   OriginalPaper Pages: 207 - 218

5. The kinetics of pressure-induced polymorphic transformations

   • A K Singh

   OriginalPaper Pages: 219 - 230

6. Hydrothermal synthesis of chromium dioxide powders and their characterisation

   • V Abdul Jaleel
   • T S Kannan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 231 - 246

7. The verwey transition

   • C M Srivastava

   OriginalPaper Pages: 247 - 256

8. Anomalous photovoltaic effect and disorder in ZnS crystals

   • M T Sebastian
   • P Krishna

   OriginalPaper Pages: 257 - 266

9. Electrochemical ways of tapping solar energy: an appraisal

   • A K Shukla
   • R Manoharan
   • K V Ramesh

   OriginalPaper Pages: 267 - 276

10. Optical properties of bismuth granules in a glass matrix

    • G C Das
    • R Das
    • D Chakravorty

    OriginalPaper Pages: 277 - 286

11. Transition metal chalcogenides exhibiting quasi-one-dimensional behaviour

    • J Gopalakrishnan
    • K S Nanjundaswamy

    OriginalPaper Pages: 287 - 306

12. Near-neighbour impurity effect on the spin-state transitions in LaCoO₃ at low temperature (12<T<300 K)

    • N Y Vasanthacharya
    • P Ganguly

    OriginalPaper Pages: 307 - 315

13. Chemical amplification — A novel approach to ultratrace analysis

    • S R Rajagopalan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 317 - 322

14. Electroless and electrodeposition of nickel boron composites

    • Indira Rajagopal

    OriginalPaper Pages: 323 - 331

15. Hydrodynamics of cholesteric liquid crystals in the coarse-grained limit

    • G S Ranganath

    OriginalPaper Pages: 333 - 342

16. Microcrystals of cooperative-behaviour materials

    • M S Multani
    • R Vijayaraghavan
    • A V Gurjar

    OriginalPaper Pages: 343 - 363

17. Material-tissue interface

    • M S Valiathan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 365 - 372

18. Materials research at national aeronautical laboratory (contributions of S Ramaseshan)

    • S R Valluri
    • S R Rajagopalan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 373 - 380