1. Editorial

   • K J Rao
   • P Rama

   EditorialNotes Pages: 401 - 401

2. Foreword

   • P Rama Rao
   • K J Rao
   • A D Damodaran

   EditorialNotes Pages: 403 - 403

3. Four decades of research in solid state chemistry

   • C N R Rao

   OriginalPaper Pages: 405 - 431

4. Some recent innovations in the Kroll process of titanium sponge production

   • R B Subramanyam

   OriginalPaper Pages: 433 - 451

5. Race of new inorganic materials towards an ultra neolithic age

   • A K Chatterjee

   OriginalPaper Pages: 453 - 464

6. Processing and properties of sintered tool steels and cemented carbides

   • G S Upadhyaya

   OriginalPaper Pages: 465 - 476

7. Liquid sodium—The heat transport medium in fast breeder reactors

   • C K Mathews

   OriginalPaper Pages: 477 - 489

8. Recent investigations on some cubic Laves phase compounds of rare earth and transition metals

   • K V S Rama Rao

   OriginalPaper Pages: 491 - 499

9. Biotechnology in gold processing

   • K A Natarajan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 501 - 508

10. Sol-gel microsphere pelletization: A powder-free advanced process for fabrication of ceramic nuclear fuel pellets

    • C Ganguly

    OriginalPaper Pages: 509 - 522

11. Sol-gel processing: A versatile concept for special glasses and ceramics

    • D Ganguli

    OriginalPaper Pages: 523 - 531

12. Advanced ceramics: Combustion synthesis and properties

    • K C Patil

    OriginalPaper Pages: 533 - 541

13. Solidification modelling

    • O Prabhakar

    OriginalPaper Pages: 543 - 560

14. Role of dynamic strain ageing in low cycle fatigue

    • S L Mannan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 561 - 582

15. The unique features of textures in low-carbon steels

    • Sanak Mishra

    OriginalPaper Pages: 583 - 599

16. Probing exotic magnetic phases in ferrites with neutrons

    • L Madhav Rao

    OriginalPaper Pages: 601 - 616

17. High resolution X-ray diffraction studies of real structure of nearly perfect single crystals

    • Krishan Lal

    OriginalPaper Pages: 617 - 642

18. Sputter deposition technology as a materials engineering

    • Kiyotaka Wasa

    OriginalPaper Pages: 643 - 663

19. Better ceramic substrates through zeolites

    • M A Subramanian
    • D R Corbin
    • U Chowdhry

    OriginalPaper Pages: 665 - 678

20. Synthesis and electrical studies of modified PbTiO₃ ceramics: (Pb_1−x Ca _x ) (Mn_0·05W_0·05Ti_0·90) O₃

    • K Prasad
    • R Sati
    • T P Sinha

    OriginalPaper Pages: 679 - 684

21. Oxygen incorporation duringin situ growth of YBCO films on both sides of substrates

    • S P Pai
    • R Pinto
    • D Kumar

    OriginalPaper Pages: 685 - 692

22. X-ray powder diffraction study of ZnLi_0·5Mn_0·5SnO₄

    • Sangeetha Sampath
    • M P Tare
    • S M Tare

    OriginalPaper Pages: 693 - 697

23. Effect of humidity on the breakdown strength and diffusion characteristics of polymer film

    • M M Hossain

    OriginalPaper Pages: 699 - 707