1. A novel method for massive fabrication of β-SiC nanowires

   • F. Li
   • G. Wen

   OriginalPaper 19 April 2007 Pages: 4125 - 4130

   

2. Pre-yield tensile set of a semi-crystalline polymer, its blend and composite

   • W. C. J. Zuiderduin
   • J. Huétink
   • R. J. Gaymans

   OriginalPaper Open access 09 April 2007 Pages: 4131 - 4135

   

3. The synthesis, swelling behaviour and rheological properties of chemically crosslinked thermosensitive copolymers based on N-isopropylacrylamide

   • Luke M. Geever
   • César M. Mínguez
   • Clement L. Higginbotham

   OriginalPaper 08 March 2007 Pages: 4136 - 4148

   

4. Reaction sintering of intermetallic-reinforced composite materials

   • I. A. MacAskill
   • D. P. Bishop

   OriginalPaper 07 March 2007 Pages: 4149 - 4158

   

5. Molecular dynamics simulations of atomic-level brittle fracture mechanisms in amorphous silica

   • Krishna Muralidharan
   • Ki-Dong Oh
   • J. H. Simmons

   OriginalPaper 23 March 2007 Pages: 4159 - 4169

   

6. X-ray irradiation induced optical absorptions in silver and manganese doped soda-lime silicate glass

   • Jiawei Sheng
   • Liqiang Jiang

   OriginalPaper 02 March 2007 Pages: 4170 - 4176

   

7. A multi-scaled model for the fracture toughness of an aluminum alloy

   • Min Song
   • Kang Hua Chen
   • Lan Ping Huang

   OriginalPaper 09 March 2007 Pages: 4177 - 4182

   

8. In situ synthesized ceramic–polymer composites for bone tissue engineering: bioactivity and degradation studies

   • Yusuf M. Khan
   • Emily K. Cushnie
   • Cato T. Laurencin

   OriginalPaper 02 March 2007 Pages: 4183 - 4190

   

9. Interfacial stress transfer of fiber pullout for carbon nanotubes with a composite coating

   • Toshiaki Natsuki
   • Feng Wang
   • Morinobu Endo

   OriginalPaper 02 March 2007 Pages: 4191 - 4196

   

10. The influence of magnetron sputtered silver and titanium coatings on the compaction and properties of surface modified PM Ti-48Al powders

    • Filipe Neves
    • Nelson Duarte
    • Bruno Trindade

    OriginalPaper 02 March 2007 Pages: 4197 - 4204

    

11. Intermetallic Fe_xAl_y-phases in a steel/Al-alloy fusion weld

    • Leonardo Agudo
    • Dominique Eyidi
    • Anke R. Pyzalla

    OriginalPaper 02 March 2007 Pages: 4205 - 4214

    

12. Strengthening mechanism of load sharing of particulate reinforcements in a metal matrix composite

    • Bernie Yaping Zong
    • Fang Zhang
    • Liang Zuo

    OriginalPaper 02 March 2007 Pages: 4215 - 4226

    

13. Aluminum hydroxide filled ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) composites: effect of the interfacial compatibilizer and the particle size

    • Ling Zhang
    • Chun Zhong Li
    • Wei Shao

    OriginalPaper 03 March 2007 Pages: 4227 - 4232

    

14. Cooling rate dependent as-cast microstructure and mechanical properties of Zr-based metallic glasses

    • M. Yan
    • J. Shen
    • J. Zou

    OriginalPaper 03 March 2007 Pages: 4233 - 4239

    

15. Preparation of carbon nanofibers over carbon nanotube-nickel catalyst in propylene decomposition

    • Yun Zhao
    • Chunhua Li
    • Ji Liang

    OriginalPaper 03 March 2007 Pages: 4240 - 4244

    

16. Carbon fiber/ceramic matrix composites: processing, oxidation and mechanical properties

    • Samanta Rafaela de Omena Pina
    • Luiz Claudio Pardini
    • Inez Valéria Pagotto Yoshida

    OriginalPaper 03 March 2007 Pages: 4245 - 4253

    

17. Synthesis and characterization of zinc oxide fine particles coated with titania/PDMS hybrid

    • Masato Nakade
    • Makoto Ogawa

    OriginalPaper 03 March 2007 Pages: 4254 - 4259

    

18. Effect of structure change on thermal and dielectric characteristics in low-temperature firing Bi₂O₃–B₂O₃–ZnO glasses

    • Byung-Sook Kim
    • Eun-Sub Lim
    • Jeong-Joo Kim

    OriginalPaper 28 February 2007 Pages: 4260 - 4264

    

19. Luminescent stability of water-soluble PbS nanoparticles

    • Xu-Sheng Zhao
    • She-Yang Xu
    • Sam Cauchi

    OriginalPaper 28 February 2007 Pages: 4265 - 4269

    

20. Dielectric, ferroelectric and piezoelectric properties of (1 − x)[Pb_0.91La_0.09(Zr_0.60Ti_0.40)O₃]–x[Pb(Mg_1/3Nb_2/3)O₃], 0 ≤ x ≤ 1

    • Benudhar Sahoo
    • Prasanta Kumar Panda

    OriginalPaper 28 February 2007 Pages: 4270 - 4275

    

21. Calorimetric studies of 8090 and 1441 Al–Li–Cu–Mg–Zr alloys of conventional and retrogressed and reaged tempers

    • K. S. Ghosh
    • K. Das
    • U. K. Chatterjee

    OriginalPaper 28 February 2007 Pages: 4276 - 4290

    

22. Containerless processing of a lithium disilicate glass

    • K. S. Ranasinghe
    • C. S. Ray
    • T. Rathz

    OriginalPaper 28 February 2007 Pages: 4291 - 4297

    

23. Hardness and tensile strength of multifilamentary metal–matrix composite superconductors for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

    • Christian Scheuerlein
    • Thierry Boutboul
    • Birgit Rehmer

    OriginalPaper 28 February 2007 Pages: 4298 - 4307

    

24. Influence of pad span on fretting fatigue behaviour of AISI 304 stainless steel

    • M. Jayaprakash
    • S. Ganesh Sundara Raman

    OriginalPaper 28 February 2007 Pages: 4308 - 4315

    

25. Experimental study of the quasi-static and dynamic behaviour of cork under compressive loading

    • Celina Pires Gameiro
    • José Cirne
    • Gérard Gary

    OriginalPaper 28 February 2007 Pages: 4316 - 4324

    

26. Combustion and thermal properties of OctaTMA-POSS/PS composites

    • Lei Liu
    • Yuan Hu
    • Richard Hull

    OriginalPaper 28 February 2007 Pages: 4325 - 4333

    

27. Martensite/particle interactions and the shape memory effect in an Fe–Mn–Si-based alloy

    • Nicole Stanford
    • Druce P. Dunne

    OriginalPaper 28 February 2007 Pages: 4334 - 4343

    

28. Bis-ortho-diynylarene polymerization as a route to solid and hollow carbon fibers

    • Huseyin Zengin
    • Dennis W. Smith Jr

    OriginalPaper 28 February 2007 Pages: 4344 - 4349

    

29. Fabrication and characterization of PE/MMT nanocomposites via copolymerization of ethylene and in situ formed α-olefins

    • Jinhua Qian
    • Cun-Yue Guo
    • Youliang Hu

    OriginalPaper 28 February 2007 Pages: 4350 - 4355

    

30. The size refinement of Cu crystallites under mechanical processing conditions: a phenomenological modeling approach

    • F. Delogu
    • G. Cocco

    OriginalPaper 28 February 2007 Pages: 4356 - 4363

    

31. The effect of microstructure and applied stress on magnetic Barkhausen emission in induction hardened steel

    • Mohamed Blaow
    • John Terence Evans
    • Brian A. Shaw

    OriginalPaper 28 February 2007 Pages: 4364 - 4371

    

32. The effect of microstructure on the permeability of metallic foams

    • Mamoun Medraj
    • Eric Baril
    • Louis-Philippe Lefebvre

    OriginalPaper 01 March 2007 Pages: 4372 - 4383

    

33. Investigations on coating durability and tenso-resistive effect of carbon black-coated polycaprolactam fibers

    • Xin Jin
    • Changfa Xiao
    • Guangxia Jia

    OriginalPaper 28 February 2007 Pages: 4384 - 4389

    

34. The permeability and stability of microencapsulated epoxy resins

    • Li Yuan
    • Guo-Zheng Liang
    • Jing Guo

    OriginalPaper 28 February 2007 Pages: 4390 - 4397

    

35. Application of uniform design in optimisation of three stage ageing of Al–Cu–Mg alloys

    • N. Gao
    • M. J. Starink
    • I. Sinclair

    OriginalPaper 28 February 2007 Pages: 4398 - 4405

    

36. Novel sodium alginate composite membranes prepared by incorporating cobalt(III) complex particles used in pervaporation separation of water–acetic acid mixtures at different temperatures

    • Ravindra S. Veerapur
    • K. B. Gudasi
    • Tejraj M. Aminabhavi

    OriginalPaper 28 February 2007 Pages: 4406 - 4417

    

37. Co-precipitation synthesis of Nd:YAG nano-powders: the effect of Nd dopant addition with thermal treatment

    • Eugenio Caponetti
    • Maria Luisa Saladino
    • Stefano Enzo

    OriginalPaper 28 February 2007 Pages: 4418 - 4427

    

38. Hot embossing of grating-based optically variable images in thermoplastic acrylic lacquer

    • P. W. Leech
    • R. A. Lee

    OriginalPaper 28 February 2007 Pages: 4428 - 4434

    

39. Effect of neodymium on microstructure and corrosion resistance of AZ91 magnesium alloy

    • Y. L. Song
    • Yao Hui Liu
    • S. H. Wang

    OriginalPaper 28 February 2007 Pages: 4435 - 4440

    

40. Experimental study of the transverse mechanical properties of polyamide 6.6 monofilaments

    • Georgios Stamoulis
    • Christiane Wagner-Kocher
    • Marc Renner

    OriginalPaper 28 February 2007 Pages: 4441 - 4450

    

41. Preparation of UV-curable intercalated/exfoliated epoxide/acrylateclays nanocomposite resins

    • Yu-Young Wang
    • Tsung-Eong Hsieh

    OriginalPaper 28 February 2007 Pages: 4451 - 4460

    

42. Synthesis of 3-dimensional mesoporous silica using a di-block copolymer template

    • Jinlan Ju
    • Huining Xiao
    • Zisheng Zhang

    OriginalPaper 14 February 2007 Pages: 4461 - 4469

    

43. Investigation on reliability of nanolayer-grained Ti₃SiC₂ via Weibull statistics

    • Y. W. Bao
    • Y. C. Zhou
    • H. B. Zhang

    OriginalPaper 14 February 2007 Pages: 4470 - 4475

    

44. Novel green-emitting polymer containing fluorene and 1-(2-benzothiazolyl)-3,5-diphenylpyrazoline

    • Huaxi Zhang
    • Ying Li
    • Yong Cao

    OriginalPaper 15 February 2007 Pages: 4476 - 4479

    

45. Improvement electrical properties of sol–gel derived lead zirconate titanate thick films for ultrasonic transducer application

    • Q. F. Zhou
    • K. K. Shung
    • Y. Huang

    OriginalPaper 15 February 2007 Pages: 4480 - 4484

    

46. Relationship between thermal and sliding wear behavior of Al6061/Al₂O₃ metal matrix composites

    • Serdar Osman Yılmaz
    • Soner Buytoz

    OriginalPaper 15 February 2007 Pages: 4485 - 4493

    

47. Study on the morphology, rheology and surface of dynamically vulcanized chlorinated butyl rubber/polyethylacrylate extrudates: effect of extrusion temperature and times

    • Jinrong Wu
    • Qiying Pan
    • Guangsu Huang

    OriginalPaper 15 February 2007 Pages: 4494 - 4501

    

48. Thermal and optical properties of zinc halotellurite glasses

    • El Sayed Said Yousef

    OriginalPaper 15 February 2007 Pages: 4502 - 4507

    

49. Mesocarbon microbeads supported PtSn catalysts for electrochemical oxidation of ethanol

    • Yuxia Bai
    • Jinfeng Li
    • Liquan Chen

    OriginalPaper 15 February 2007 Pages: 4508 - 4512

    

50. Cyclic indentation in aluminum

    • Fuqian Yang
    • Lingling Peng
    • Kenji Okazaki

    OriginalPaper 15 February 2007 Pages: 4513 - 4520