1. Understanding the influence of particle size on strain versus fatigue life, and fracture behavior of aluminum alloy composites produced by spray deposition

   • W. Li
   • Z. H. Chen
   • Li Changhao

   OriginalPaper 08 September 2010 Pages: 1153 - 1160

   

2. A study on the hardness and elastic modulus of friction stir welded aluminum alloy thick plate joints using micro-indentation

   • Weifeng Xu
   • Jinhe Liu
   • Hongqiang Zhu

   OriginalPaper 16 September 2010 Pages: 1161 - 1166

   

3. Probing of wood–cement interactions during hydration of wood–cement composites by proton low-field NMR relaxometry

   • Y. A. M. Cheumani
   • M. Ndikontar
   • G. Sèbe

   OriginalPaper 14 September 2010 Pages: 1167 - 1175

   

4. CO combustion catalyst for micro gas sensor application

   • M. Nishibori
   • W. Shin
   • I. Matsubara

   OriginalPaper 15 September 2010 Pages: 1176 - 1183

   

5. Luminescence properties of monodispersed spherical BaWO₄:Eu³⁺ microphosphors for white light-emitting diodes

   • Jinsheng Liao
   • Bao Qiu
   • Hangying You

   OriginalPaper 14 September 2010 Pages: 1184 - 1189

   

6. Preparation and characterization of graphene/NiO nanocomposites

   • Zhenyuan Ji
   • Jili Wu
   • Haitao Xi

   OriginalPaper 11 September 2010 Pages: 1190 - 1195

   

7. Morphology and microstructure of M₂C carbide formed at different cooling rates in AISI M2 high speed steel

   • X. F. Zhou
   • F. Fang
   • J. Q. Jiang

   OriginalPaper 16 September 2010 Pages: 1196 - 1202

   

8. 3D printing of Al₂O₃/Cu–O interpenetrating phase composite

   • Reinhold Melcher
   • Nahum Travitzky
   • Peter Greil

   OriginalPaper 15 September 2010 Pages: 1203 - 1210

   

9. Preparation and thermomechanical characterisation of aluminum titanate flexible ceramics

   • C. Babelot
   • A. Guignard
   • N. Adachi

   OriginalPaper 25 September 2010 Pages: 1211 - 1219

   

10. Preparation of porous ZrO₂/Al₂O₃ macrobeads from ion-exchange resin templates

    • M.-L. Wang
    • C.-H. Wang
    • W. Wang

    OriginalPaper 15 September 2010 Pages: 1220 - 1227

    

11. Polypropylene/SiO₂ nanocomposites filled with different nanosilicas: thermal and mechanical properties, morphology and interphase characterization

    • Rui-Juan Zhou
    • Thomas Burkhart

    OriginalPaper 22 September 2010 Pages: 1228 - 1238

    

12. Organic light-emitting devices fabricated utilizing core/shell CdSe/ZnS quantum dots embedded in a polyvinylcarbazole

    • Kwang Seop Lee
    • Dea Uk Lee
    • Jong Sun Lim

    OriginalPaper 30 September 2010 Pages: 1239 - 1243

    

13. Effect of negative bias voltage on mechanical and electrochemical nature in Ti–W–N coatings

    • J. C. Caicedo
    • L. Yate
    • P. Prieto

    OriginalPaper 21 September 2010 Pages: 1244 - 1252

    

14. Influence of fabrication method on the structure and thermal expansion property of ZrWMoO₈ and its composites

    • Qin-Qin Liu
    • Xiao-Nong Cheng
    • Xiu-Juan Sun

    OriginalPaper 21 September 2010 Pages: 1253 - 1258

    

15. Synthesis and luminescence properties of a novel Eu³⁺, Tb³⁺ co-doped Al₁₈B₄O₃₃ whiskers by a gel nano-coating method

    • Jian Wang
    • Guiling Ning
    • Yuan Lin

    OriginalPaper Open access 23 September 2010 Pages: 1259 - 1263

    

16. Effects of addition of hindered phenol compounds to a segmented polyurethane with shape memory on mechanical yielding

    • Mizue Kuriyagawa
    • Takanobu Kawamura
    • Koh-hei Nitta

    OriginalPaper 24 September 2010 Pages: 1264 - 1271

    

17. Effect of composition on fracture behavior of polypropylene–wollastonite–polyolefin elastomer system

    • Zhuo Fu
    • Wenli Dai
    • Baiquan Chen

    OriginalPaper 22 September 2010 Pages: 1272 - 1280

    

18. Isothermal crystallization kinetics and morphology of biodegradable poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-4-hydroxybutyrate)

    • Xiuping Lu
    • Xing Wen
    • Di Yang

    OriginalPaper 23 September 2010 Pages: 1281 - 1288

    

19. The improvement of the amorphous environment of the germanate–tellurate glasses in the presence of the gadolinium ions

    • S. Rada
    • R. Chelcea
    • E. Culea

    OriginalPaper 24 September 2010 Pages: 1289 - 1294

    

20. Compositional dependence of the structural and dielectric properties of Li₂O–GeO₂–ZnO–Bi₂O₃–Fe₂O₃ glasses

    • Shaaban M. Salem
    • E. M. Antar
    • S. A. El-badry

    OriginalPaper 30 September 2010 Pages: 1295 - 1304

    

21. The behaviour of double oxide film defects in Al–4.5 wt% Mg melt

    • Fatemeh Najafzadeh Bakhtiarani
    • Ramin Raiszadeh

    OriginalPaper 23 September 2010 Pages: 1305 - 1315

    

22. Role of poly(N-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone) as stabilizer for dispersion of graphene via hydrophobic interaction

    • Seyoung Yoon
    • Insik In

    OriginalPaper 02 October 2010 Pages: 1316 - 1321

    

23. A method for the chemical anchoring of carbon nanotubes onto carbon fibre and its impact on the strength of carbon fibre composites

    • Alexandre Vivet
    • Bessem Ben Doudou
    • M’Hamed Ayachi

    OriginalPaper 24 September 2010 Pages: 1322 - 1327

    

24. Modeling of soft impingement effect during solid-state partitioning phase transformations in binary alloys

    • Hao Chen
    • Sybrand van der Zwaag

    OriginalPaper Open access 23 September 2010 Pages: 1328 - 1336

    

25. Hydrothermal synthesis and photoluminescence properties of Y₂Zr₂O₇:Tb³⁺ phosphors

    • Linhui Gao
    • Yue An
    • Guofu Ou

    OriginalPaper 25 September 2010 Pages: 1337 - 1340

    

26. Organic solvent based TiO₂ dispersion paste for dye-sensitized solar cells prepared by industrial production level procedure

    • Ryohei Mori
    • Tsutomu Ueta
    • Yasukiyo Ueda

    OriginalPaper 28 September 2010 Pages: 1341 - 1350

    

27. Oxidation behavior and effect of oxidation on tensile properties of Ti60 alloy

    • Weiju Jia
    • Weidong Zeng
    • Qingjiang Wang

    OriginalPaper 28 September 2010 Pages: 1351 - 1358

    

28. Effects of the porcelain-fused-to-metal firing process on the surface and corrosion of two Co–Cr dental alloys

    • Jing Qiu
    • Wei-qiang Yu
    • Fu-qiang Zhang

    OriginalPaper 16 October 2010 Pages: 1359 - 1368

    

29. Effect of water aging on the apatite formation of a low-modulus Ti–7.5Mo alloy treated with aqueous NaOH

    • Hsueh-Chuan Hsu
    • Hsi-Kai Tsou
    • Wen-Fu Ho

    OriginalPaper 30 September 2010 Pages: 1369 - 1379

    

30. Three-scale analysis of BaTiO₃ piezoelectric thin films fabrication process and its experimental validation

    • Hwisim Hwang
    • Yasutomo Uetsuji
    • Eiji Nakamachi

    OriginalPaper Open access 28 September 2010 Pages: 1380 - 1387

    

31. Synthesis and characterization of niobium doped hexagonal tungsten bronze in the systems, Cs_xNb_yW_1−yO₃

    • Kalpana R. Dey
    • Tapas Debnath
    • Altaf Hussain

    OriginalPaper 16 December 2010 Pages: 1388 - 1395

    

32. Investigation of osteoblast-like MC3T3-E1 cells on a novel recombinant collagen-like protein surface with triple helix structure

    • Yuan Li
    • Xu Xu Bao
    • Frank K. Ko

    OriginalPaper 05 October 2010 Pages: 1396 - 1404

    

33. Phase equilibria and thermodynamic modeling in the Ge–Zr binary system

    • Chunsheng Sha
    • Liangcai Zhou
    • Honghui Xu

    OriginalPaper 06 October 2010 Pages: 1405 - 1413

    

34. Investigation of mechanical, electrical, and thermal properties of a Zn–1.26 wt% Al alloy

    • Emin Çadırlı
    • Mevlüt Şahin

    OriginalPaper 01 October 2010 Pages: 1414 - 1423

    

35. High thermal conductivity composites consisting of diamond filler with tungsten coating and copper (silver) matrix

    • Andrey M. Abyzov
    • Sergey V. Kidalov
    • Fedor M. Shakhov

    OriginalPaper 30 September 2010 Pages: 1424 - 1438

    

36. How hybridization with zinc oxide whiskers and carbon fibers affects the thermal diffusivity and mechanical properties of poly(l-lactic acid) nanocomposites

    • Akinobu Nakamura
    • Masatoshi Iji

    OriginalPaper 02 October 2010 Pages: 1439 - 1445

    

37. Densification and microstructural evolution during laser sintering of A356/SiC composite powders

    • A. Simchi
    • D. Godlinski

    OriginalPaper 07 October 2010 Pages: 1446 - 1454

    

38. Influence of Yb-doping on optoelectrical properties of CdO nanocrystalline films

    • A. A. Dakhel

    OriginalPaper 01 October 2010 Pages: 1455 - 1461

    

39. Influence of solution rate and substrate temperature on the properties of lead iodide films deposited by spray pyrolysis

    • J. F. Condeles
    • M. Mulato

    OriginalPaper 05 October 2010 Pages: 1462 - 1468

    

40. Influence of Zr-substitution on phase transitions character in polycrystalline Ba(Ti_1−x Zr _x )O₃

    • C. Kajtoch

    OriginalPaper Open access 05 October 2010 Pages: 1469 - 1473

    

41. New insights in photo-patterned sol–gel-derived TiO₂ films

    • S. Briche
    • Z. Tebby
    • M. Langlet

    OriginalPaper 16 October 2010 Pages: 1474 - 1486

    

42. Growth of carbon nanotubes on aluminium foil for supercapacitors electrodes

    • Reza Kavian
    • Antonello Vicenzo
    • Massimiliano Bestetti

    OriginalPaper 09 October 2010 Pages: 1487 - 1493

    

43. Preparation of carbon spheres by low-temperature pyrolysis of cyclic hydrocarbons

    • N. Koprinarov
    • M. Konstantinova

    OriginalPaper 02 November 2010 Pages: 1494 - 1501

    

44. Effect of SiC content on the processing, compaction behavior, and properties of Al6061/SiC/Gr hybrid composites

    • Soheil Mahdavi
    • Farshad Akhlaghi

    OriginalPaper 14 October 2010 Pages: 1502 - 1511

    

45. Low dielectric constant and organosolubility of polyimides derived from unsymmetric phthalic-thioether-naphthalic dianhydrides

    • Benlin Hu
    • Haibing Wei
    • Xingzhong Fang

    OriginalPaper 14 October 2010 Pages: 1512 - 1522

    

46. Preparation, properties, and drug release of thermo- and pH-sensitive poly((2-dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate)/poly(N,N-diethylacrylamide) semi-IPN hydrogels

    • Naiyan Zhang
    • Mingzhu Liu
    • Chunmei Gao

    OriginalPaper 16 October 2010 Pages: 1523 - 1534

    

47. Adsorption properties of Cd(II)-imprinted chitosan resin

    • Bingjie Liu
    • Dongfeng Wang
    • Guoqing Huang

    OriginalPaper 16 October 2010 Pages: 1535 - 1541

    

48. Crystallization behavior of poly (vinylidene fluoride)/multi-walled carbon nanotubes nanocomposites

    • Kai Ke
    • Rui Wen
    • Ming-Bo Yang

    OriginalPaper 14 October 2010 Pages: 1542 - 1550

    

49. Novel organic monotectic alloy and its thermal, physicochemical, and microstructural studies

    • K. P. Sharma
    • R. N. Rai

    OriginalPaper 15 October 2010 Pages: 1551 - 1556

    

50. Wetting transition of grain boundaries in the Sn-rich part of the Sn–Bi phase diagram

    • C.-H. Yeh
    • L.-S. Chang
    • B. B. Straumal

    OriginalPaper 29 October 2010 Pages: 1557 - 1562