1. Preface

   • Guillermo Solórzano

   4th Brazilian MRS Meeting 01 April 2007 Pages: 2215 - 2215

2. Decay of photo-excited conductivity of Er-doped SnO₂ thin films

   • Evandro A. Morais
   • Luis V. A. Scalvi

   4th Brazilian MRS Meeting 01 April 2007 Pages: 2216 - 2221

   

3. Nanocoating of Al₂O₃ additive on ZrO₂ powder and its effect on the sintering behaviour in ZrO₂ ceramic

   • R. F. Gonçalves
   • M. J. Godinho
   • J. A. Varela

   4th Brazilian MRS Meeting 01 April 2007 Pages: 2222 - 2225

   

4. Copper slag waste as a supplementary cementing material to concrete

   • Washington Almeida Moura
   • Jardel Pereira Gonçalves
   • Mônica Batista Leite Lima

   4th Brazilian MRS Meeting 01 April 2007 Pages: 2226 - 2230

   

5. Scintillating properties of pure and doped BGO ceramics

   • Geane C. Santana
   • Ana Carolina S. de Mello
   • Zélia Soares Macedo

   4th Brazilian MRS Meeting 01 April 2007 Pages: 2231 - 2235

   

6. Production and characterization of pure and Cr³⁺-doped hydroxyapatite for biomedical applications as fluorescent probes

   • Tatiana S. de Araujo
   • Zélia S. Macedo
   • Mário E. G. Valerio

   4th Brazilian MRS Meeting 01 April 2007 Pages: 2236 - 2243

   

7. Nonhydrolytic sol-gel synthesis and characterization of YAG

   • Eduardo José Nassar
   • Paula Fabiana dos Santos Pereira
   • Paulo Sergio Calefi

   4th Brazilian MRS Meeting 01 April 2007 Pages: 2244 - 2249

   

8. Correlation between chemical vapor deposited diamond and carbon fibers substrates

   • Erica Cristina Almeida
   • Vladimir Jesus Trava-Airoldi
   • Neidenei Gomes Ferreira

   4th Brazilian MRS Meeting 01 April 2007 Pages: 2250 - 2254

   

9. Hydrogen permeation through internally oxidized Pd alloys

   • Viviane M. Azambuja
   • Dilson S. dos Santos

   4th Brazilian MRS Meeting 01 April 2007 Pages: 2255 - 2260

   

10. Effects of hydrogen on the mechanical properties of a 2 1/4Cr–1Mo steel

    • Paula Cristina Siquara
    • Carlos Bruno Eckstein
    • Dilson Silva dos Santos

    4th Brazilian MRS Meeting 01 April 2007 Pages: 2261 - 2266

    

11. Numerical and experimental analysis of microstructure formation during stainless steels solidification

    • M. L. N. Melo
    • Carlos Lima Penhalber
    • Carlos A. Santos

    4th Brazilian MRS Meeting 01 April 2007 Pages: 2267 - 2275

    

12. Influence of temperature and aging time on hardness and magnetic properties of the maraging steel grade 300

    • J. M. Pardal
    • S. S. M. Tavares
    • H. F. G. Abreu

    4th Brazilian MRS Meeting 01 April 2007 Pages: 2276 - 2281

    

13. Electronic structure and pressure dependence of magnetic properties of Fe/N/Fe multi-layers

    • A. V. dos Santos
    • J. C. Krause
    • C. A. Kuhnen

    4th Brazilian MRS Meeting 01 April 2007 Pages: 2282 - 2289

    

14. Studies on electrodeposition of corrosion resistant Ni–Fe–Mo alloy

    • Renato A. C. Santana
    • Shiva Prasad
    • Pedro Lima-Neto

    4th Brazilian MRS Meeting 01 April 2007 Pages: 2290 - 2296

    

15. Superparamagnetic relaxation evidences large surface contribution for the magnetic anisotropy of MnFe₂0₄ nanoparticles of ferrofluids

    • C. R. Alves
    • Renata Aquino
    • Régine Perzynski

    4th Brazilian MRS Meeting 01 April 2007 Pages: 2297 - 2303

    

16. Thermal-lens study of thermo-optical properties of tellurite glasses

    • V. Pilla
    • E. F. Chillcce
    • L. C. Barbosa

    4th Brazilian MRS Meeting 01 April 2007 Pages: 2304 - 2308

    

17. Growth of YLF:Yb:Tm:Nd for optical applications

    • I. M. Ranieri
    • L. C. Courrol
    • S. L. Baldochi

    4th Brazilian MRS Meeting 01 April 2007 Pages: 2309 - 2313

    

18. Influence of graded interfaces on the exciton energy of type-I and type-II Si/Si_1-x Ge_x quantum wires

    • Andrey Chaves
    • Jusciane da Costa e Silva
    • Gil de Aquino Farias

    4th Brazilian MRS Meeting 01 April 2007 Pages: 2314 - 2317

    

19. Coupling phenomena and vortex transitions in superconducting Ni/Nb multilayers

    • E. C. Siqueira
    • O. F. de Lima

    4th Brazilian MRS Meeting 01 April 2007 Pages: 2318 - 2322

    

20. The influence of the structure of starch on the mechanical, morphological and thermal properties of poly (ε-caprolactone) in starch blends

    • D. S. Rosa
    • D. R. Lopes
    • M. R. Calil

    4th Braziliam MRS Meeting 01 April 2007 Pages: 2323 - 2328

    

21. Electrical conductivity of homopolymer and copolymers of N-vinylcarbazole

    • Shirley Possidonio
    • Roberto Koji Onmori
    • Shu Hui Wang

    4th Brazilian MRS Meeting 01 April 2007 Pages: 2329 - 2333

    

22. TEM microstructural analysis of As-Bonded Al–Au wire-bonds

    • Adi Karpel
    • Giyora Gur
    • Wayne D. Kaplan

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2007 Pages: 2334 - 2346

    

23. Microstructural evolution of gold–aluminum wire-bonds

    • Adi Karpel
    • Giyora Gur
    • Wayne D. Kaplan

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2007 Pages: 2347 - 2357

    

24. Effects of antioxidants and the solid component on the thermal stability of polyol-ester-based thermal pastes

    • Yasuhiro Aoyagi
    • D. D. L. Chung

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2007 Pages: 2358 - 2375

    

25. The preparatory optimal conditions of barium titanate thin film from a hydrothermal method at low temperature

    • Kun-Ming Hung
    • Ching-Shieh Hsieh
    • Yi-Jiun Sun

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2007 Pages: 2376 - 2382

    

26. Effect of composition on the crystallization and magnetic properties of Fe–Co–Si–B–Nb amorphous alloys

    • Hyang-Yeon Kim

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2007 Pages: 2383 - 2386

    

27. Convection–diffusion derived gradient films on porous substrates and their microstructural characteristics

    • Yanwei Zeng
    • Changan Tian
    • Junliang Liu

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2007 Pages: 2387 - 2392

    

28. Dielectric properties of B₂O₃ doped Sm(Co_1/2Ti_1/2)O₃ ceramics at microwave frequency

    • Hong-Tie Soong
    • Cheng-Hsing Hsu
    • Ming-Ta Kuo

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2007 Pages: 2393 - 2398

    

29. Synthesis of visible-light responsive nitrogen/carbon doped titania photocatalyst by mechanochemical doping

    • Shu Yin
    • Masakazu Komatsu
    • Tsugio Sato

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2007 Pages: 2399 - 2404

    

30. Microstructure and microtexture of highly cold-rolled commercially pure titanium

    • N. Bozzolo
    • N. Dewobroto
    • F. Wagner

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2007 Pages: 2405 - 2416

    

31. Dry sliding wear behavior of stir cast aluminium base short steel fiber reinforced composites

    • Durbadal Mandal
    • B. K. Dutta
    • S. C. Panigrahi

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2007 Pages: 2417 - 2425

    

32. Hot-pressed hydroxylapatite/monoclinic zirconia composites with improved mechanical properties

    • Zafer Evis
    • Robert H. Doremus

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2007 Pages: 2426 - 2431

    

33. Quantitative analysis for kinetics of reactive diffusion in the Fe–Cr system

    • M. Kajihara
    • T. Yamashina

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2007 Pages: 2432 - 2442

    

34. Finite element analysis of pseudoelastic behavior of NiTi shape memory alloy with thin-wall tube under extension-torsion loading

    • X. M. Wang
    • M. Frotscher
    • Z. F. Yue

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2007 Pages: 2443 - 2449

    

35. Stress-impedance effects in sandwiched FeCuNbCrSiB/Cu/FeCuNbCrSiB films fabricated by Microelectromechanical Systems technique

    • Zhimin Zhou
    • Ying Cao
    • Wen Ding

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2007 Pages: 2450 - 2454

    

36. Multi-technique and multi-scale approach applied to study the structural behavior of heterogeneous materials: natural SiO₂ case

    • L. Khouchaf
    • J. Verstraete

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2007 Pages: 2455 - 2462

    

37. High strain rate behavior of 4-step 3D braided composites under compressive failure

    • Baozhong Sun
    • Bohong Gu

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2007 Pages: 2463 - 2470

    

38. Influence of diameter of carbon nanotubes mounted in flow-through capacitors on removal of NaCl from salt water

    • Dengsong Zhang
    • Liyi Shi
    • Kai Dai

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2007 Pages: 2471 - 2475

    

39. Characterization of electrical behaviour of Si modified BaSnO₃ electroceramics using impedance analysis

    • Ashok Kumar
    • R. N. P. Choudhary

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2007 Pages: 2476 - 2485

    

40. Microtexture and electrical properties of PAN-ACF

    • Jong Gyu Lee
    • Je Young Kim
    • Sung Hyun Kim

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2007 Pages: 2486 - 2491

    

41. Characterization of Ba_0.9Sr_0.1TiO₃ prepared by low temperature chloride aqueous synthesis

    • Srimala Sreekantan
    • Ahmad Fauzi Mohd Noor
    • Derek Sinclair

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2007 Pages: 2492 - 2498

    

42. Deformation and fracture behaviour of flax fibre reinforced thermosetting polymer matrix composites

    • Mark Hughes
    • James Carpenter
    • Callum Hill

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2007 Pages: 2499 - 2511

    

43. Studying of salt diffusion behaviour in brick

    • Jori Ahl
    • Xiaoshu Lü

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2007 Pages: 2512 - 2520

    

44. Thermodynamic assessment of phase relations in the system PbO–RuO₂–TiO₂

    • K. T. Jacob
    • R. Subramanian

    Letter 01 April 2007 Pages: 2521 - 2523

    

45. Effects of electrochemical hydrogen charging on electrical properties of WO₃ ceramics

    • W. P. Chen
    • X. F. Zhu
    • H. L. W. Chan

    Letter 01 April 2007 Pages: 2524 - 2527

    

46. Preparation and characterization of ZrWMoO₈ powders with different morphologies using hydrothermal method

    • Qin-Qin Liu
    • Juan Yang
    • Xue-Hua Yan

    Letter 01 April 2007 Pages: 2528 - 2531

    

47. Preparation and properties of novel phosphonium-type ionic liquids/silica gel nanocomposites

    • Hideo Sawada
    • Shun Kodama
    • Masashi Sugiya

    Letter 01 April 2007 Pages: 2532 - 2535