1. Foreword

   EditorialNotes 04 September 2008 Pages: 199 - 199

2. Polystyrene as a zwitter resist in electron beam lithography based electroless patterning of gold

   • T. Bhuvana
   • G. U. Kulkarni

   OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 201 - 206

3. Synthesis of size-controlled Bi particles by electrochemical deposition

   • C. N. Tharamani
   • H. C. Thejaswini
   • S. Sampath

   OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 207 - 212

4. Optical properties of polymer nanocomposites

   • S. Srivastava
   • M. Haridas
   • J. K. Basu

   OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 213 - 217

5. Reactivity and resizing of gold nanorods in presence of Cu²⁺

   • T. S. Sreeprasad
   • A. K. Samal
   • T. Pradeep

   OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 219 - 224

6. Hydrogen-induced electrical and optical switching in Pd capped Pr nanoparticle layers

   • Shubhra Kala
   • B. R. Mehta

   OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 225 - 231

7. Formation of InN nanoparticle and nanorod structures by nitrogen plasma annealing method

   • Ajay Kumar Mann
   • Deepak Varandani
   • A. K. Tyagi

   OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 233 - 240

8. Nanomagnetics with lasers

   • R. C. Budhani
   • Rajib K. Rakshit

   OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 241 - 247

9. Soft lithography meets self-organization: Some new developments in meso-patterning

   • Rabibrata Mukherjee
   • Ashutosh Sharma
   • Gooh Pattader

   OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 249 - 261

10. Synthesis of nanocomposites using glasses and mica as templates

    • D. Chakravorty
    • S. Basu
    • A. Banerjee

    OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 263 - 276

11. Growth of two-dimensional arrays of uncapped gold nanoparticles on silicon substrates

    • Anindya Das
    • Soma Das
    • A. K. Raychaudhuri

    OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 277 - 282

12. Growth of compact arrays of optical quality single crystalline ZnO nanorods by low temperature method

    • Manoranjan Ghosh
    • Ritwik Bhattacharyya
    • A. K. Raychaudhuri

    OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 283 - 289

13. New route for preparation of luminescent mercaptoethanoate capped cadmium selenide quantum dots

    • Manoj E. Wankhede
    • Shaukatali N. Inamdar
    • Santosh K. Haram

    OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 291 - 296

14. Empirical pseudo-potential studies on electronic structure of semiconducting quantum dots

    • Anjali Kshirsagar
    • Neelesh Kumbhojkar

    OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 297 - 307

15. New approach towards imaging λ-DNA using scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy (STM/STS)

    • Shirshendu Dey
    • Sushama Pethkar
    • C. V. Dharmadhikari

    OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 309 - 312

16. Investigation on carbon nanomaterials: Coaxial CNT-cylinders and CNT-polymer composite

    • Kalpana Awasthi
    • T. P. Yadav
    • O. N. Srivastava

    OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 313 - 318

17. Synthesis, characterization and application of semiconducting oxide (Cu₂O and ZnO) nanostructures

    • D. P. Singh
    • Jai Singh
    • O. N. Srivastava

    OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 319 - 325

18. Ab initio studies on [bmim][PF₆]-CO₂ mixture and CO₂ clusters

    • B. L. Bhargava
    • M. Saharay
    • S. Balasubramanian

    OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 327 - 334

19. Effect of curvature on structures and vibrations of zigzag carbon nanotubes: A first-principles study

    • Mousumi Upadhyay Kahaly
    • Umesh V. Waghmare

    OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 335 - 341

20. Control of nanostructures in PVA, PVA/chitosan blends and PCL through electrospinning

    • U. S. Sajeev
    • K. Anoop Anand
    • Shanti Nair

    OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 343 - 351

21. Comparative study of electron conduction in azulene and naphthalene

    • Sudipta Dutta
    • S. Lakshmi
    • Swapan K. Pati

    OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 353 - 358

22. Nanorheology of regenerated silk fibroin solution

    • A. Raghu
    • Sharath Ananthamurthy

    OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 359 - 365

23. Synthesis and characterization of silver molybdate nanowires, nanorods and multipods

    • G. Nagaraju
    • G. T. Chandrappa
    • Jacques Livage

    OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 367 - 371

24. Influence of mechanical milling and thermal annealing on electrical and magnetic properties of nanostructured Ni-Zn and cobalt ferrites

    • A. Narayanasamy
    • N. Sivakumar

    OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 373 - 380

25. Microrheology of concentrated DNA solutions using optical tweezers

    • Arun S. Rajkumar
    • B. M. Jaffar Ali

    OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 381 - 386

26. Model for thermal conductivity of CNT-nanofluids

    • H. E. Patel
    • K. B. Anoop
    • Sarit K. Das

    OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 387 - 390

27. Kinetics of self-organization of polyampholyte nanoparticles in solutions

    • H. B. Bohidar

    OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 391 - 395

28. Enhanced catalytic activity of nanoscale platinum islands loaded onto SnO₂ thin film for sensitive LPG gas sensors

    • Divya Haridas
    • Vinay Gupta
    • K. Sreenivas

    OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 397 - 400

29. Time resolved spectroscopic studies on some nanophosphors

    • Harish Chander
    • Santa Chawla

    OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 401 - 407

30. Metal oxide/polyaniline nanocomposites: Cluster size and composition dependent structural and magnetic properties

    • Raksha Sharma
    • Rakesh Malik
    • S. Annapoorni

    OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 409 - 413

31. Synthesis of nanocrystalline materials through reverse micelles: A versatile methodology for synthesis of complex metal oxides

    • Ashok K. Ganguli
    • Sonalika Vaidya
    • Tokeer Ahmad

    OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 415 - 419

32. Optical materials based on molecular nano/microcrystals and ultrathin films

    • A. Patra
    • K. Rajesh
    • T. P. Radhakrishnan

    OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 421 - 427

33. Biomimetic synthesis of hybrid nanocomposite scaffolds by freeze-thawing and freeze-drying

    • S. Nayar
    • A. K. Pramanick
    • A. Sinha

    OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 429 - 432

34. Studies on crystallization behaviour and mechanical properties of Al-Ni-La metallic glasses

    • K. L. Sahoo
    • Rina Sahu
    • S. Chatterjee

    OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 433 - 439

35. Synthesis, characterization and electrochemical studies of LiNi_0·8M_0·2O₂ cathode material for rechargeable lithium batteries

    • R. Sathiyamoorthi
    • P. Manisankar
    • T. Vasudevan

    OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 441 - 447

36. Structure of nanocomposites of Al-Fe alloys prepared by mechanical alloying and rapid solidification processing

    • S. S. Nayak
    • B. S. Murty
    • S. K. Pabi

    OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 449 - 454

37. Structure-property relationship of specialty elastomer-clay nanocomposites

    • Anirban Ganguly
    • Madhuchhanda Maiti
    • Anil K. Bhowmick

    OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 455 - 459

38. Upconversion emission of BaTiO₃: Er nanocrystals

    • Pushpal Ghosh
    • Suparna Sadhu
    • Amitava Patra

    OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 461 - 465

39. Nanocrystalline silicon prepared at high growth rate using helium dilution

    • Koyel Bhattacharya
    • Debajyoti Das

    OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 467 - 471

40. Nanodielectrics with giant permittivity

    • S. K. Saha

    OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 473 - 477

41. Metal nanoparticle doped coloured coatings on glasses and plastics through tuning of surface plasmon band position

    • Goutam De
    • Samar Kumar Medda
    • Sudipto Pal

    OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 479 - 485

42. Electrochemical and in situ spectroelectrochemical studies of gold nanoparticles immobilized Nafion matrix modified electrode

    • T. Selvaraju
    • S. Sivagami
    • R. Ramaraj

    OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 487 - 494

43. CdS/CdSSe quantum dots in glass matrix

    • R. S. Sonawane
    • S. D. Naik
    • B. B. Kale

    OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 495 - 499

44. Doped barium titanate nanoparticles

    • T. K. Kundu
    • A. Jana
    • P. Barik

    OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 501 - 505

45. Nanocrystalline spinel ferrites by solid state reaction route

    • T. K. Kundu
    • S. Mishra

    OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 507 - 510

46. Study of optical phonon modes of CdS nanoparticles using Raman spectroscopy

    • Rajeev R. Prabhu
    • M. Abdul Khadar

    OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 511 - 515

47. Synthesis of a new generation of amphiphiles with multi-cryptand headgroups: A comparative study at air-water interface

    • B. Sarkar
    • R. K. Gupta
    • P. K. Bharadwaj

    OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 517 - 523

48. Water structure near single and multi-layer nanoscopic hydrophobic plates of varying separation and interaction potentials

    • Malay Rana
    • Amalendu Chandra

    OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 525 - 532

49. Tuning photoluminescence of ZnS nanoparticles by silver

    • A. Murugadoss
    • Arun Chattopadhyay

    OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 533 - 539

50. Tuning luminescence intensity of RHO6G dye using silver nanoparticles

    • Suchita Kalele
    • Aparna C. Deshpande
    • S. K. Kulkarni

    OriginalPaper 04 September 2008 Pages: 541 - 544