JOURNAL OF MATERIALS RESEARCH Vol. 24 - 2009

SPIS TREŚCI

No. 1

OUTSTANDING SYMPOSIUM PAPER 1 Structure of shear bands in Pd40Ni40P20 bulk metallic glass / Y.M. Chen,

T. Ohkubo, T. Mukai, K. Hono ARTICLES 10 The effect of very high barium content in the precursor on the properties

of GdBCO single grain bulk superconductors / Yunhua Shi, N. Hari Babu, Kazumasa Iida, David A. Cardwell

19 Effect of heat treatment on the reflective spectrum of zinc oxide powders / M.M. Mikhailov, V.V. Neshchimenko, Chundong Li, Shiyu He, Dezhuang Yang

24 Thermal properties of nanocrystalline Al composites reinforced by AlN nanoparticles / Y.Q. Liu, H.T. Cong, H.M. Cheng

32 Facile composite synthesis and photoluminescence of NaGd(MoO4)2: Ln3+ (Ln = Eu, Tb) submicrometer phosphors / Bing Yan, Jianhua Wu

39 Low-temperature instability of Ti2SnC: A combined transmission electron microscopy, differential scanning calorimetry, and x-ray diffraction investigations / J. Zhang, B. Liu, J.Y. Wang, Y.C. Zhou

50 Fabrication of hybrid composites based on biomineralization of phosphorylated poly(ethylene glycol) hydrogels / Chan Woo Kim, Sung Eun Kim, Yong Woo Kim, Hong Jae Lee, Hyung Woo Choi, Jeong Ho Chang, Jinsub Choi, Kyung Ja Kim, Kwang Bo Shim, Young-Keun Jeong, Sang Cheon Lee

58 Simultaneous phase- and morphology-controlled synthesis of MnO2 crystals through controlled release of cuprous ions in hydrothermal condition / Yange Zhang, Zhi Zheng, Ka Wai Wong, Fengling Yang, Zude Zhang

66 Uniaxial and biaxial compressive response of a bulk metallic glass composite over a range of strain rates and temperatures / M. Martin, L. Meyer, L. Kecskes, N.N. Thadhani

79 Effects of O and N impurities on the nanostructural evolution during growth of Cr/Sc multilayers / Naureen Ghafoor, Fredrik Eriksson, Arkady S. Mikhaylushkin, Igor A. Abrikosov, Eric. M. Gullikson, Ulrich Kressig, Manfred Beckers, Lars Hultman, Jens Birch

96 Comparison of bulk metallic glass formation between Cu-Hf binary and Cu-Hf-Al ternary alloys / Peng Jia, Jian Xu

107 The effect of porogen loading on the stiffness and fracture energy of brittle organosilicates / Han Li, Youbo Lin, Ting Y. Tsui, Joost J. Vlassak

117 Morphological analysis of pores in directionally freeze-cast titanium foams / J.L. Fife, J.C. Li, D.C. Dunand, P.W. Voorhees

125 Very fast biaxial texture evolution using high rate ion-beam-assisted deposition of MgO / Vladimir Matias, Jens Hänisch, E. John Rowley, Konrad Güth

130 Correlation between Barkhausen noise and mechanical sensitivity in FINEMET-type materials / G. Eszenyi, S. Szabó, L. Harasztosi, F. Zámborszky, J. Nyéki, Z. Erdélyi, D.L. Beke

135 Epitaxial growth of NiSi2 induced by sulfur segregationat the NiSi2/Si(100) interface / Q.T. Zhao, S.B. Mi, C.L. Jia, C. Urban, C. Sandow, S. Habicht, S. Mantl

140 Effects of iron-phosphate coating on Ru dissolution in the PtRu thin-film electrodes / Yejun Park, Byungjoo Lee, Chunjoong Kim, Jongmin Kim, Byungwoo Park

145 On the role of vibration frequency on the solidification of AZ91D magnesium alloys during electromagnetic vibration / Mingjun Li, Takuya Tamura, Kenji Miwa

156 Thermotropic behavior of sodium cholesteryl carbonate / Rabkwan Chuealee, Timothy S. Wiedmann, Teerapol Srichana

164 Optimization of synthesis of the solid solution, Pb(Zr1–xTix)O3 on a single substrate using a high-throughput modified molecular-beam epitaxy technique / P.S. Anderson, S. Guerin, B.E. Hayden, Y. Han, M. Pasha, K.R. Whittle, I.M. Reaney

173 Single asperity tribochemical wear of silicon by atomic force microscopy / Futoshi Katsuki

179 Densification mechanism involved during spark plasma sintering of a codoped α-alumina material: Part I. Formal sintering analysis / G. Bernard-Granger, C. Guizard

187 Synthesis and characterization of nanocrystalline tungsten oxide nanosheets in large scale / Rong Hu, Huasheng Wu, Kunquan Hong

192 Orientation relationship and interfacial structure between Nb solid solution precipitates and α-Nb5Si3 intermetallics / G.M. Cheng, Y.X. Tian, L.L. He

198 Strain rate and temperature effects on dynamic properties of high-strength weldable aluminum-scandium alloy / Woei-Shyan Lee, Tao-Hsing Chen

212 Formation of the YBa2Cu2NbOy phase in thin films / Srinivas Sathiraju, Paul N. Barnes, Robert A. Wheeler

217 Microstructure and mechanical behavior of ultrafine-grained Ni processed by different powder metallurgy methods / J. Gubicza, H-Q. Bui, F. Fellah, G.F. Dirras

227 Synthesis and characterization of single-crystalline CdS nanorods prepared by γ-irradiation / Haijiao Zhang, Gang Liu, Xiaojuan Wan, Huijiao Guo, Zheng Jiao, Minghong Wu

237 Low-temperature sintering of dense lanthanum silicate electrolytes with apatite-type structure using an organic precipitant synthesized nanopowder / Seung Hwan Jo, P. Muralidharan, Do Kyung Kim

245 An efficient solution for the single-step synthesis of 4CaOAl2O3Fe2O3 powders / Robert Ianos

253 Tunable electrical properties of polystyrene/gold core-shell structure by in situ metallization of cationic gold complex on selective ion-exchange sites / Jun-Ho Lee, Hyoukryeol Choi, Jae-Do Nam

260 Novel ultrahigh-strength nanolath martensitic steel by quenching–partitioning–tempering process / X.D. Wang, N. Zhong, Y.H. Rong, T.Y. Hsu (Z.Y. Xu), L. Wang

268 Microwave heating behavior of nanocrystalline Au thin films in single-mode cavity / Ziping Cao, Noboru Yoshikawa, Shoji Taniguchi

274 Effect of Ag addition on local structure of Cu–Zr glassy alloy / Dmitri V. Louzguine-Luzgin, Kostas Georgarakis, Alain R. Yavari, Gavin Vaughan, Guoqiang Xie, Akihisa Inoue

279 Microstructure evolution of Ca0.33CoO2 thin films investigated by high-angle annular dark-field scanning transmissionelectron microscopy / Rong Huang, Teruyasu Mizoguchi, Kenji Sugiura, Shin-ichi Nakagawa, Hiromichi Ohta, Tomohiro Saito, Kunihito Koumoto, Tsukasa Hirayama, Yuichi Ikuhara

288 Preparation of crystallized glass for application in fiber-type devices / Hirokazu Masai, Naoki Iwafuchi, Yoshihiro Takahashi, Takumi Fujiwara, Seiki Ohara, Yuki Kondo, Naoki Sugimoto

No. 2

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS 297 A new solder wetting layer for Pb-free solders / Chang Yul Oh, Hee-Ra

Roh, Young Min Kim, Jin Soo Lee, Hae Young Cho, Young-Ho Kim 301 Thermal coarsening of nanoporous gold: Melting or recrystallization /

Masataka Hakamada, Mamoru Mabuchi 305 Stressed solid-phase epitaxial growth of (011) Si / N.G. Rudawski,

K.S. Jones, R. Gwilliam ARTICLES 310 Greatly enhanced broadband near-infrared emission due to energy

transfer from Cr3+ to Ni2+ in transparent magnesium aluminosilicate glass ceramics / Jin Luo, Shifeng Zhou, Botao Wu, Hucheng Yang, Song Ye, Bin Zhu, Jianrong Qiu

316 Thermal stability, corrosion resistance, and surface analysis of Cu–Hf–Ti–Ni–Nb bulk metallic glasses / C.L. Qin, W. Zhang, K. Asami, N. Ohtsu, A. Inoue

324 Magnetodielectric Ni ferrite ceramics with Bi2O3 additive for potential antenna miniaturizations / X.T. Liew, K.C. Chan, L.B. Kong

333 Microstructure of lamellar liquid crystal in Tween 85/[Bmim]PF6/H2O system and applications as Ag nanoparticle synthesis and lubrication / Tuosu Dai, Lingling Ge, Rong Guo

342 Characterization of grain structure in nanocrystalline gadolinium by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy / Martin Seyring, Xiaoyan Song, Andrey Chuvilin, Ute Kaiser, Markus Rettenmayr

347 Bi-template effect of a vegetal system on the synthesis of alkaline-earth tungstate nanocrystals / Dong-Mei Sun, Da-Zhang Zhu, Qing-Sheng Wu

352 Growth and assembly of monodisperse Ag nanoparticles by exchanging the organic capping ligands / Chenhui Hao, Dingsheng Wang, Wen Zheng, Qing Peng

357 Bulk metallic glass formation, composite, and magnetic propertiesof Fe-B-Nd based alloys / J. Zhang, Y.P. Feng, Y. Li

372 Nanostructural characterizations of hydrogen-permselective Si–Co–O membranes by transmission electron microscopy / Shinji Fujisaki, Koji Hataya, Tomohiro Saito, Shigeo Arai, Yuji Iwamoto, Kotaro Kuroda

379 Failure by simultaneous grain growth, strain localization, and interface debonding in metal films on polymer substrates / Nanshu Lu, Xi Wang, Zhigang Suo, Joost Vlassak

386 Oxidation and reduction behavior of pure indium / Harry Schoeller, Junghyun Cho

394 Nanopatterned optical and magnetic La0.6Ca0.4MnO3 arrays: Synthesis, fabrication, and properties / Ming-Chung Wu, Chih-Min Chuang, Jhih-Fong Lin, Yu-Ching Huang, Yang-Fang Chen, Wei-Fang Su

404 Spark plasma sintering of zirconium carbide and oxycarbide: Finite element modeling of current density, temperature, and stress distributions / Guy Antou, Gendre Mathieu, Gilles Trolliard, Alexandre Maître

413 The role of Cu addition in the coercivity enhancement of sintered Nd-Fe-B permanent magnets / W.F. Li, T. Ohkubo, T. Akiya, H. Kato, K. Hono

421 Digital image correlation shows localized deformation bands in inelastic loading of fibrolamellar bone / Gunthard Benecke, Michael Kerschnitzki, Peter Fratzl, Himadri S. Gupta

430 Effects of Nb doping on thermoelectric properties of Zn4Sb3 at high temperatures / D. Li, H.H. Hng, J.Ma, X.Y. Qin

436 Serrated flow behavior induced by blunt mechanism of shear crack propagation in metallic glass / J.T. Fan, Z.F. Zhang, S.X. Mao, B.L. Shen, J. Eckert

441 Effect of film thickness on the structural and electrical properties of Ga-doped ZnO thin films prepared on glass and Al2O3 (0001) substrates by RF magnetron sputtering method / Seung Wook Shin, S.M. Pawar, Tae-Won Kim, Jong-Ha Moon, Jin Hyeok Kim

448 Titanium nitride nanopowders produced via sodium reductionin liquid ammonia / Boyan Yuan, Mei Yang, Hongmin Zhu

452 The influence of prior cold deformation on precipitation of alpha phase and variation of hardness in Ti-10Mo-8V-1Fe-3.5Al during aging treatment / Z.Y. Song, Q.Y. Sun, L. Xiao, L. Liu, H. Wang, W. Chen, J. Sun, P. Ge

459 A comparison of continuous SPD processes for improving the mechanical properties of aluminum alloy 6111 / R. Lapovok, L.S. Tóth, M. Winkler, S.L. Semiatin

470 Compositionally graded mullite-based chemical vapor deposited coatings / Tushar Kulkarni, H.Z. Wang, S.N. Basu, V.K. Sarin

475 Growth of nanotubes in sol-gel-derived V2O5 powders and films prepared under acidic conditions / R. Ceccato, S. Dirè, T. Barone, G. De Santo, E. Cazzanelli

482 Solid-state reactions and stress evolutions between SnAg and Ni(P) thin films / Jae Yong Song, Jin Yu

487 Synthesis and pressureless sintering of Ti3SiC2 powder / B.B. Panigrahi, Min-Cheol Chu, A. Balakrishnan, Seong-Jai Cho

493 Multivariable study on homoepitaxial diamond growth using isotopically enriched carbon-13 gas mixtures / Gopi K. Samudrala, Yogesh K. Vohra

499 The influence of Sb doping in achieving high magnetic coercivities in CoPt nanoparticles for micromagnet applications / Abdulcadir S. Hussein, Pandiyan Murugaraj, Colin J. Rix, David E. Mainwaring

506 Microstructure and secondary phase segregation correlation in epitaxial/oriented ZnO films with unfavorable Cr dopant / L.V. Saraf, Z.H. Zhu, C.M. Wang, M.H. Engelhard

516 Energy transfer and enhanced broadband near-infrared luminescence in Yb–Bi codoped phosphate glasses / Jian Ruan, Botao Wu, Danping Chen, Yanbo Qiao, Jianrong Qiu

520 Influence of oxygen deficiency on the out-of-plane tilt of epitaxial Y2O3 films on Ni–5%W tapes / C. Cantoni, E.D. Specht, A. Goyal, X. Li, M. Rupich

526 Piezoelectric, ferroelectric Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3–PbTiO3 thin films with compositions around the morphotropic phase boundary prepared by a sol-gel process of reduced thermal budget / M.L. Calzada, M. Algueró, A. Santos, M. Stewart, M.G. Cain, L. Pardo

534 Effects of under bump metallization and nickel alloying element on the undercooling behavior of Sn-based, Pb-free solders / Moon Gi Cho, Sung K. Kang, Sun-Kyoung Seo, Da-Yuan Shih, Hyuck Mo Lee

544 Structure of vapor-phase deposited Al-Ge thin films and Al-Ge intermediate layer bonding of Al-based microchannel structures / Fanghua Mei, W.J. Meng, J. Hiller, D.J. Miller

556 Chemical bonding and mechanical properties of M2AC (M = Ti, V, Cr, A = Al, Si, P, S) ceramics from first-principles investigations / Ting Liao, Jingyang Wang, Yanchun Zhou

565 Controlled generation of ferromagnetic martensite from paramagnetic austenite in AISI 316L austenitic stainless steel / E. Menéndez, J. Sort, M.O. Liedke, J. Fassbender, S. Suriñach, M.D. Baró, J. Nogués

ERRATUM 574 Erratum: "Synthesis of γ-(Al1-xFex)2O3 solid solutions from oxinate

precursors and formation of CNTs from the solid solutions using methane or ethylene as carbon source" [J. Mater. Res. 23, 3096 (2008)] / Valdirene G. de Resende, Anne Cordier, Eddy De Grave, Alicia Weibel, Alain Peigney, Geraldo M. da Costa, Christophe Laurent, Robert E. Vandenberghe

No. 3 INDENTATION METHODS IN ADVANCED MATERIALS RESEARCH 579 Introduction / George M. Pharr, Yang-Tse Cheng, Ian M. Hutchings,

Mototsugu Sakai, Neville R. Moody, G. Sundararajan, Michael V. Swain

REVIEW 581 The contributions of David Tabor to the science of indentation hardness /

Ian M. Hutchings ARTICLES 590 Relation between the ratio of elastic work to the total work of indentation

and the ratio of hardness to Young's modulus for a perfect conical tip / J. Chen, S.J. Bull

599 Modified method for continuous stiffness measurement / Pal Jen Wei, Jen Fin Lin

607 Nanoindentation study of slip transfer phenomenon at grain boundaries / T.B. Britton, D. Randman, A.J. Wilkinson

616 Influence of the indenter tip geometry and environment on the indentation modulus of enamel / G.M. Guidoni, L.H. He, T. Schöberl, I. Jäger, G. Dehm, M.V. Swain

626 Measuring the constitutive behavior of viscoelastic solids in the time and frequency domain using flat punch nanoindentation / E.G. Herbert, W.C. Oliver, A. Lumsdaine, G.M. Pharr

638 Nanoindentation of histological specimens: Mapping the elastic properties of soft tissues / R. Akhtar, N. Schwarzer, M.J. Sherratt, R.E.B. Watson, H.K. Graham, A.W. Trafford, P.M. Mummery, B. Derby

647 Where are the geometrically necessary dislocations accommodating small imprints? / M. Rester, C. Motz, R. Pippan

653 Critical issues in making small-depth mechanical property measurements by nanoindentation with continuous stiffness measurement / G.M. Pharr, J.H. Strader, W.C. Oliver

667 Measuring substrate-independent modulus of dielectric films by instrumented indentation / Jennifer Hay

679 Nanoindentation analysis as a two-dimensional tool for mapping the mechanical properties of complex surfaces / Nicholas X. Randall, Matthieu Vandamme, Franz-Josef Ulm

691 The dynamic indentation behavior of steel at large depths of penetration / G. Sundararajan, S.N. Dikshit

704 A quantitative analysis for the stress field around an elastoplastic indentation/contact / Gang Feng, Shaoxing Qu, Yonggang Huang, William D. Nix

719 Nanoindentation of yttria-doped zirconia: Effect of crystallographic structure on deformation mechanisms / Y. Gaillard, M. Anglada, E. Jiménez-Piqué

728 Comparative investigation of strength and plastic instability in Cu/Au and Cu/Cr multilayers by indentation / Y.P. Li, X.F. Zhu, J. Tan, B. Wu, W. Wang, G.P. Zhang

736 Contact area determination in indentation testing of elastomers / Julia K. Deuschle, H. Matthias Deuschle, Susan Enders, Eduard Arzt

749 Strain gradient plasticity to study hardness behavior of magnetite (Fe3O4) under multicyclic indentation / D. Chicot, F. Roudet, V. Lepingle, G. Louis

760 Direct mapping of deformation in punch indentation and correlation with slip line fields / T.G. Murthy, J. Madariaga, S. Chandrasekar

768 Localized compression and shear tests on nanotargets with a Berkovich tip and a novel multifunctional tip / A. Rinaldi, P. Peralta, C. Friesen, N. Chawla, E. Traversa, K. Sieradzki

776 The equivalence of axisymmetric indentation model for three-dimensional indentation hardness / J. Qin, Y. Huang, J. Xiao, K.C. Hwang

784 Can indentation technique measure unique elastoplastic properties? / Ling Liu, Nagahisa Ogasawara, Norimasa Chiba, Xi Chen

801 A simple method for evaluating elastic modulus of thin films by nanoindentation / Zhongxin Wei, Guoping Zhang, Hao Chen, Jian Luo, Ranran Liu, Shengmin Guo

816 Predicting macroscopic plastic flow of high-performance, dual-phase steel through spherical nanoindentation on each microphase / Byoung-Wook Choi, Dong-Han Seo, Jang-Yong Yoo, Jae-il Jang

823 Indentation-induced two-way shape memory surfaces / Xueling Fei, Yijun Zhang, David S. Grummon, Yang-Tse Cheng

831 Substrate-affected indentation contact parameters of elastoplastic coating/substrate composites / Mototsugu Sakai

844 Characterization of the mechanical behavior of wear surfaces on single crystal nickel by nanomechanical techniques / M.J. Cordill, N.R. Moody, S.V. Prasad, J.R. Michael, W.W. Gerberich

853 Response of power-law-viscoelastic and time-dependent materials to rate jumps / A.H.W. Ngan, B. Tang

863 Storage and loss stiffnesses and moduli as determined by dynamic nanoindentation / Wendelin J. Wright, W.D. Nix

873 Novel ultra nanoindentation method with extremely low thermal drift: Principle and experimental results / J. Nohava, N.X. Randall, N. Conté

883 A new insight on reversible deformation and incipient plasticity during nanoindentation test in MgO / Alex Montagne, Christophe Tromas, Valérie Audurier, Jacques Woirgard

890 Pressure sensitive flow and constraint factor in amorphous materials below glass transition / K. Esward Prasad, V. Keryvin, U. Ramamurty

898 Scale effects for strength, ductility, and toughness in “brittle” materials / W.W. Gerberich, J. Michler, W.M. Mook, R. Ghisleni, F. Östlund, D.D. Stauffer, R. Ballarini

907 Influence of specimen preparation, microstructure anisotropy, and residual stresses on stress–strain curves of rolled Al2024 T351 as derived from spherical indentation tests / J. Heerens, F. Mubarok, N. Huber

918 Influence of the loading rate on the indentation response of Ti-based metallic glass / J. Sort, J. Fornell, W. Li, S. Suriñach, M.D. Baró

926 Indentation strength of a piezoelectric ceramic: Experiments and simulations / S.N. Kamble, D.V. Kubair, U. Ramamurty

936 Determination of plastic properties of metals by instrumented indentation using a stochastic optimization algorithm / I. Peyrot, P-O. Bouchard, R. Ghisleni, J. Michler

948 Molecular dynamics study of crystal plasticity during nanoindentation in Ni nanowires / V. Dupont, F. Sansoz

957 Indentation fracture of silicone gels / Wei-Chun Lin, Kathryn J. Otim, Joseph L. Lenhart, Phillip J. Cole, Kenneth R. Shull

966 Slip distance model for the indentation size effect at the initiation of plasticity in ceramics and metals / A.J. Bushby, T.T. Zhu, D.J. Dunstan

973 Viscoelastic and poroelastic mechanical characterization of hydrated gels / Matteo Galli, Kerstyn S.C. Comley, Tamaryn A.V. Shean, Michelle L. Oyen

980 Microindentation and nanoindentation of human fingernails at varying relative humidity / Laura Farran, A. Roland Ennos, Stephen J. Eichhorn

985 Measurements of diffusion thickness at polymer interfaces by nanoindentation: A numerically calibrated experimental approach / Chunyu Yang, Chieh-Tsung Lo, Ashraf F. Bastawros, Balaji Narasimhan

993 Indentation creep of a Ti-based metallic glass / Y.J. Huang, Y.L. Chiu, J. Shen, J.J.J. Chen, J.F. Sun

998 Validity of the reduced modulus concept to describe indentation loading response for elastoplastic materials with sharp indenters / In-suk Choi, Oliver Kraft, Ruth Schwaiger

1007 Numerical investigation of indentation fatigue on polycrystalline copper / B.X. Xu, Z.F. Yue, X. Chen

1016 Nanoindentation near the edge / J.E. Jakes, C.R. Frihart, J.F. Beecher, R.J. Moon, P.J. Resto, Z.H. Melgarejo, O.M. Suarez, H. Baumgart, A.A. Elmustafa, D.S. Stone

1032 Some basic equations for the next generation of surface testers solving the problem of pileup, sink-in, and making area-function calibration obsolete / Norbert Schwarzer

1037 Analysis of the tip roundness effects on the micro- and macroindentation response of elastic–plastic materials / Sara Aida Rodríguez Pulecio, María Cristina Moré Farias, Roberto Martins Souza

1045 Determination of plastic properties by instrumented spherical indentation: Expanding cavity model and similarity solution approach / Peng Jiang, Taihua Zhang, Yihui Feng, Rong Yang, Naigang Liang

1054 Can Young’s modulus and hardness of wire structural materials be directly measured using nanoindentation? / S.Q. Shu, Y. Yang, T. Fu, C.S. Wen, J. Lu

1059 Finite element analysis and experimental investigation of the Hertzian assumption on the characterization of initial plastic yield / Li Ma, Dylan J. Morris, Stefhanni L. Jennerjohn, David F. Bahr, Lyle Levine

1069 Thermal treatment effects on hard and soft films measured by nanoindentation test / F.C. Tai, S.C. Lee, C. Wei, P.J. Wei, J.F. Lin

1075 Fracture modes in curved brittle layers subject to concentrated cyclic loading in liquid environments / Jae-Won Kim, Van P. Thompson, E. Dianne Rekow, Yeon-Gil Jung, Yu Zhang

1082 Spherical indentation for determining the phase transition properties of shape memory alloys / Linmao Qian, Shuang Zhang, Dongyang Li, Zhongrong Zhou

1087 Mechanism of aging effects on viscoelasticity in ethylene-methacrylic acid ionomer studied by local thermal-mechanical analysis / Harsha P. Kulkarni, Gregory Mogilevsky, William M. Mullins, Yue Wu

1093 Nanoindentation and microstructural evolution of polycrystalline gold / Jeong Beom Ma, M.A. Zikry

1105 In situ electrochemical nanoindentation of FeAl (100) single crystal: Hydrogen effect on dislocation nucleation / Afrooz Barnoush, Christian Bies, Horst Vehoff

1114 Determining the elastic modulus and hardness of an ultra-thin film on a substrate using nanoindentation / Han Li, Joost J. Vlassak

1127 Nanoindentation investigations to study solid solution hardening in Ni-based diffusion couples / Oliver Franke, Karsten Durst, Mathias Göken

1135 Nanoindentation of thin films: Simulations and experiments / Arun K. Nair, M.J. Cordill, Diana Farkas, W.W. Gerberich

1142 Importance of surface preparation on the nano-indentation stress-strain curves measured in metals / Siddhartha Pathak, Dejan Stojakovic, Roger Doherty, Surya R. Kalidindi

1156 Spherical indentation of lungs: Experiments, modeling and sub-surface imaging / Maricris R. Silva, Zhijia Yuan, Jae Hun Kim, Zhenguo Wang, Melissa Hoyos, Yingtian Pan, Andrew Gouldstone

1167 Extracting elastic properties and prestress of a cell using atomic force microscopy / C.Y. Zhang, Y.W. Zhang

1172 Effect of crystallographic orientation on phase transformations during indentation of silicon / Y.B Gerbig, S.J. Stranick, D.J. Morris, M.D. Vaudin, R.F. Cook

1184 Experimental measurement and numerical simulation of the plastic strain during indentation and scratch tests on polymeric surfaces / Hervé Pelletier, Christian Gauthier, Robert Schirrer

1197 The correlation between the internal material length scale and the microstructure in nanoindentation experiments and simulations using the conventional mechanism-based strain gradient plasticity theory / B. Backes, Y.Y. Huang, M. Göken, K. Durst

1208 In situ scanning electron microscopy indentation studies on multilayer nitride films: Methodology and deformation mechanisms / K.A. Rzepiejewska-Malyska, W.M. Mook, M. Parlinksa-Wojtan, J. Hejduk, J. Michler

1222 Analysis of the effects of conical indentation variables on the indentation response of elastic–plastic materials through factorial design of experiment / Sara Aida Rodríguez Pulecio, María Cristina Moré Farias, Roberto Martins Souza

1235 The role of crystalline anisotropy in mechanical property extractions through Berkovich indentation / J. Alcalá, D. Esqué-de los Ojos, S.A. Rodríguez

1245 Computational mechanical property determination of viscoelastic/plastic materials from nanoindentation creep test data / Jianjun Wang, Timothy C. Ovaert

1258 On the usage of the effectively shaped indenter concept for analysis of yield strength / M. Herrmann, F. Richter

1270 Numerical analysis of plastic deformation evolution into metallic materials during spherical indentation process / M. Beghini, L. Bertini, V. Fontanari, B.D. Monelli

1279 Investigation of thermally activated deformation in amorphous PMMA and Zr-Cu-Al bulk metallic glasses with broadband nanoindentation creep / J.B. Puthoff, J.E. Jakes, H. Cao, D.S. Stone

1291 Transmission electron microscopy study of the deformation behavior of Cu/Nb and Cu/Ni nanoscale multilayers during nanoindentation / D. Bhattacharyya, N.A. Mara, P. Dickerson, R.G. Hoagland, A. Misra

No. 4 RAPID COMMUNICATIONS 1307 Effect of MoO3 as conditioning catalyst on synthesis of carbon nanotubes /

Yunfang Liu, Kenji Takeuchi, Ki Chul Park, Hiroyuki Muramatsu, Tomoyuki Fukuyo, Morinobu Endo

OUTSTANDING SYMPOSIUM PAPER 1311 The synthesis and hydrogen storage properties of Mg2Ni substituted with

Cu, Co / Yu’an Chen, Hua Huang, Jie Fu, Qing Guo, Fusheng Pan, Shiping Deng, Jiaming Li, Guangming Zhao

1317 Cell labeling efficiency of layer-by-layer self-assembly modified silica nanoparticles / Gang Liu, Jing Tian, Chen Liu, Hua Ai, Zhongwei Gu, Jilong Gou, Xianming Mo

ARTICLES 1322 Structural modifications of Gd2Zr2-xTixO7 pyrochlore induced by swift

heavy ions: Disordering and amorphization / M. Lang, F.X. Zhang, R.C. Ewing, Jie Lian, Christina Trautmann, Zhongwu Wang

1335 First-principles calculation of structural and energetic properties for A2Ti2O7 (A = Lu, Er, Y, Gd, Sm, Nd, La) / Z.L. Zhang, H.Y. Xiao, X.T. Zu, Fei Gao, W.J. Weber

1342 Residual stress and strain-free lattice-parameter depth profiles in a γ'-Fe4N1-x layer on an a-Fe substrate measured by x-ray diffraction stress analysis at constant information depth / M. Wohlschlögel, U. Welzel, E.J. Mittemeijer

1353 A new method for mechanical testing of thin films: Application to aluminum / T. Kruml, M. Stranyanek, R. Ctvrtlik, P. Bohac, T. Vystavel, P. Panek

1361 Characterization of heterogeneities in detector-grade CdZnTe crystals / M.C. Duff, D.B. Hunter, A. Burger, M. Groza, V. Buliga, J.P. Bradley, G. Graham, Z.R. Dai, N. Teslich, D.R. Black, A. Lanzirotti

1368 Enthalpies of formation of CdSxSe1–x solid solutions / Fen Xu, Xuchu Ma, Susan M. Kauzlarich, Alexandra Navrotsky

1375 Atmospheric pressure synthesis of In2Se3, Cu2Se, and CuInSe2 without external selenization from solution precursors / Jennifer A. Nekuda Malik, Maikel F.A.M. van Hest, Alexander Miedaner, Calvin J. Curtis, Jennifer E. Leisch, Philip A. Parilla, Michael Kaufman, Matthew Taylor, B.J. Stanbery, Ryan P. O'Hayre, David S. Ginley

1388 Formation of carbon capsules from an amorphous carbon film by Ga and Ni/Co catalysts in a transmission electron microscope / Cheng-Yu Wang, Yen-Chih Chen, Wen-Huei Chu, Chuan-Pu Liu, C.B. Boothroyd

1395 Growth of zirconia particles by heterocoagulation, self-assembly, and convection-induced coagulation during forced hydrolysis in a refluxed reaction vessel / Yu-Chen Chang, Kuei-Yuan Cheng

1405 Role of free volume in strain softening of as-cast and annealed bulk metallic glass / Byung-Gil Yoo, Kyoung-Won Park, Jae-Chul Lee, U. Ramamurty, Jae-il Jang

1417 Photoanode characteristics of dye-sensitized solar cell containing TiO2 layers with different crystalline orientations / Mamiko Kawakita, Jin Kawakita, Tetsuo Uchikoshi, Yoshio Sakka

1422 Evaluation methods for the hoop strength of small-sized tubular ceramic components / Seong-Gu Hong, Thak-Sang Byun, Lance L. Snead, Chong Soo Lee

1435 The functionalization of carbon nanofibers with 4,4'-diaminodiphenylmethane, a curing agent for epoxy resins / R. Chaos-Morán, M. Campo, S.G. Prolongo, M.D. Escalera, A. Ureña

1466 All chemical YBa2Cu3O7 superconducting multilayers: Critical role of CeO2 cap layer flatness / M. Coll, J. Gàzquez, R. Hühne, B. Holzapfel, Y. Morilla, J. García-López, A. Pomar, F. Sandiumenge, T. Puig, X. Obradors

1456 The strain-rate dependence of the nanoindentation stress of gold at 300 K: A deformation kinetics-based approach / Vineet Bhakhri, Robert J. Klassen

1466 Rate-change instrumented indentation for measuring strain rate sensitivity / D. Pan, M.W. Chen

1471 Corrosion behavior of the bulk glassy (Fe44.3Cr5Co5Mo12.8Mn11.2C15.8B5.9)98.5Y1.5 alloy / F. Gostin, U. Siegel, C. Mickel, S. Baunack, A. Gebert, L. Schultz

1480 High-resolution transmission electron microscopy observations of La2Zr2O7 thin layers on LaAlO3 obtained by chemical methods / L. Rapenne, C. Jiménez, T. Caroff, C. Millon, S. Morlens, P. Bayle-Guillemaud, F. Weiss

1492 The morphology of organic nanocolumn arrays: Amorphous versus crystalline solids / Jian Zhang, Ingo Salzmann, Peter Schäfer, Martin Oehzelt, Steffen Duhm, Jürgen P. Rabe, Norbert Koch

1498 The effect of boron doping and gamma irradiation on the structure and properties of microwave chemical vapor deposited boron-doped diamond films / S. Gupta, M. Muralikiran, J. Farmer, L.R. Cao, R.G. Downing

1513 Chill-zone aluminum alloys with GPa strength and good plasticity / Yan Li, Konstantinos Georgarakis, Shujie Pang, Frédéric Charlot, Alain LeMoulec, Sandrine Brice-Profeta, Tao Zhang, Alain Reza Yavari

1522 Stress behavior of electroplated Sn films during thermal cycling / Jae Wook Shin, Eric Chason

1529 Segregation and grain refinement in cast titanium alloys / M.J. Bermingham, S.D. McDonald, D.H. StJohn, M.S. Dargusch

1536 Role of oxygen in the growth of carbon nanotubes on metal alloy fibers by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition / Young Kyun Moon, Chang Goo Jung, Seok Joo Park, Tae Gyu Kim, Soo H. Kim

1543 Fabrication of well-dispersed barium titanate nanoparticles by the electrospray of a colloidal solution / Keigo Suzuki, Nobuhiko Tanaka, Keisuke Kageyama, Hiroshi Takagi

1553 Monodisperse SiC/vinyl ester nanocomposites: Dispersant formulation, synthesis, and characterization / Virginia Yong, H. Thomas Hahn

1559 In situ x-ray observation of bainitic transformation of austempered silicon alloyed steel / Xiang Chen, Esa Vuorinen

1567 Development of a metal-organic deposition process for growth of lanthanum manganate buffer layers for coated conductors / Kartik Venkataraman, Eric Hellstrom

1576 Perovskite crystallization kinetics and dielectric properties of the PMN-PT films prepared by polymer-modified sol-gel processing / Z.H. Du, T.S. Zhang, M.M. Zhu, J. Ma

1585 Structural and magnetic properties of La0.72(Ca1-xSrx)0.28MnO3 (x = 0 to 1) manganites / M.P. Gutiérrez, J.H. Olivares, I. Betancourt, F. Morales

1590 Stoichiometry and microstructural effects on electrical conduction in pulsed dc sputtered vanadium oxide thin films / Bryan D. Gauntt, Elizabeth C. Dickey, Mark W. Horn

1600 Ag effects on the elastic modulus values of nanoporous Au foams / A.M. Hodge, R.T. Doucette, M.M. Biener, J. Biener, O. Cervantes, A.V. Hamza

1607 Hysteresis loop shift behavior of CoFeSiB amorphous ribbons / J. He, L. Zhou, D.L. Zhao, Z.L. Wang

No. 5 RAPID COMMUNICATIONS 1615 Room temperature creep of fine-grained pure Mg: A direct comparison

between nanoindentation and uniaxial tension / C.L. Wang, T. Mukai, T.G. Nieh

1619 Alloying effects of iridium on glass formation and glass-forming ability of the Zr–Cu–Al system / Z.Y. Liu, Y. Wu, H.X. Li, H. Bei, Z.P. Lu

OUTSTANDING SYMPOSIUM PAPER 1624 Effect of mobile cation on zeolite-polyamide thin film nanocomposite

membranes / Mary Laura Lind, Byeong-Heon Jeong, Arun Subramani, Xiaofei Huang, Eric M.V. Hoek

1632 Soft lithography-mediated microscale patterning of silica on diverse substrates / Randall Butler, Nicholas Ferrell, Derek Hansford, Rajesh Naik

1639 The research of CdZnTe (111)B surface with synchrotron radiation photoemission spectroscopy / Gangqiang Zha, Wanqi Jie, Tingting Tan, XuXu Bai, Li Fu, Wenhua Zhang, Faqiang Xu

1642 Effect of Nb doping on microstructure and electric properties of lead zirconate stannum titanate antiferroelectric ceramics / H. Tang, Y.J. Feng, Z. Xu, C.H. Zhang, J.Q. Gao

1646 Clay swelling inhibition mechanism of α,ω diaminoalkanes in Portland Brownstone / Timothy Wangler, George W. Scherer

ARTICLES 1653 A multifunctional poly(acrylic acid)/gelatin hydrogel / Qunwei Tang,

Jihuai Wu, Jianming Lin, Shijun Fan, De Hu 1662 First-principles study of deformation-induced phase transformations in

Ti–Al intermetallics / C.L. Chen, W. Lu, L.L. He, H.Q. Ye 1667 Sol-gel-derived titanium oxide–cerium oxide biocompatible nanocomposite

film for urea sensor / Anees A. Ansari, G. Sumana, M.K. Pandey, B.D. Malhotra

1674 Extracting yield strength and strain-hardening exponent of metals with a double-angle indenter / Genliang Hou, Fei Wang, Kewei Xu

1683 Processing and microstructure characterization of a novel porous hierarchical TiO2 structure / G.A. Crawford, N. Chawla, J. Ringnalda

1688 Orientation relationships between TiB (B27), B2, and Ti3Al phases / C.L. Chen, W. Lu, L.L. He, H.Q. Ye

1693 Deformation behavior and indentation size effect in amorphous and crystallized Pd40Cu30Ni10P20 alloy / N. Li, L. Liu, K.C. Chan

1700 Imidazole catalyzed silica synthesis: Progress toward understanding the role of histidine in (bio)silicification / Mei-Keat Liang, Siddharth V. Patwardhan, Elena N. Danilovtseva, Vadim V. Annenkov, Carole C. Perry

1709 Luminescent silica nanotubes and nanowires: Preparation from cellulose whisker templates and investigation of irradiation-induced luminescence / Hanne Scheel, Cordt Zollfrank, Peter Greil

1716 Structural, optical, and electronic properties of room temperature ferromagnetic GaCuN film grown by hybrid physical-chemical vapor deposition / Chul Hwan Choi, Seon Hyo Kim, Hyo Jin Lee, Yoon Hee Jeong, Myung Hwa Jung

1722 Effects of zinc, lithium, and indium on the grain size of magnesium / A. Becerra, M. Pekguleryuz

1730 Tunable luminescence from Sm3+, Ce3+ codoped Al2O3–La2O3–SiO2 glasses for white light emission / Hucheng Yang, G. Lakshminarayana, Yu Teng, Shifeng Zhou, Jianrong Qiu

1735 Nanostructure of the nanopores in anodic aluminum oxide films used as template to fabricate Ag nanowires / Junping Zhang, Jerrold E. Kielbasa, David L. Carroll

1741 Micro/nanostructure observation of microwave-heated Fe3O4 / Noboru Yoshikawa, Ziping Cao, Dmitri Louzguin, Guoqiang Xie, Shoji Taniguchi

1748 Structure, electrical, and thermal expansion properties of (La0.8Ca0.2) (Cr0.9–xCo0.1Nix)O3–δ interconnect materials for intermediate temperature solid oxide fuel cells / Yen-Pei Fu, Hsin-Chao Wang

1756 Upconversion luminescence properties of monodisperse spherical Y2O2S:Yb,Ho nanocrystals / Xixian Luo, Wanghe Cao, Mingming Xing

1761 Examination of an analytical phase-transformation model / F. Liu, Y.Z. Ma, X. Hu, G.C. Yang

1771 SrAl12O19:Pr3+ nanodisks and nanoplates: New processing technique and photon cascade emission / Zhaogang Nie, Jiahua Zhang, Xia Zhang, Ki-Soo Lim

1780 Impedance spectroscopy analysis of zirconia:8 mol% yttria solid electrolytes with graphite pore former / R. Muccillo

1785 P-type conduction in room-temperature high-energy electron-irradiated ZnO thin films / Eui-Jung Yun, Jin Woo Jung, Chae Il Cheon, Jeong Seog Kim, Young Hwan Han, Min-Wan Kim, Byung Cheol Lee

1791 Positron lifetime and Doppler broadening study of defects in hydrogen charged Al–Mg alloys / Xiaowei Wang, Yurong Zhong, Baoyi Wang, Hongyan Zhang

1795 Modified method developed for contact-induced adhesion in indentation / Yan Xing Shen, Pal Jen Wei, Jen Fin Lin

1803 Effects of residual (or internal) stress on ferroelectric domain wall motion in tetragonal lead titanate / Wonyoung Chang, Alexander H. King, Keith J. Bowman

1810 Improved ductility of aged Mg-9Al-1Zn alloy strip by electropulsing treatment / Yanbin Jiang, Guoyi Tang, Chanhung Shek, Yaohua Zhu, Lei Guan, Shaonan Wang, Zhuohui Xu

1815 Glass-forming region of the Ni–Nb–Ta ternary metal system determined directly from n-body potential through molecular dynamics simulations / Y. Dai, J.H. Li, X.L. Che, B.X. Liu

1820 Augmented instrumented indentation using nonlinear electrical contact current-voltage curves / Lei Fang, Christopher L. Muhlstein, Amber L. Romasco, James G. Collins, Lawrence H. Friedman

1833 One-step in situ synthesis and characterization of W18O49@carbon coaxial nanocables / Yuqin Zhou, Yong Zhang, Ruying Li, Mei Cai, Xueliang Sun

1842 Formation of 14H-type long period stacking ordered structure in the as-cast and solid solution treated Mg–Gd–Zn–Zr alloys / W.J. Ding, Y.J. Wu, L.M. Peng, X.Q. Zeng, G.Y. Yuan, D.L. Lin

1855 Effect of SiC, TaB2 and TaSi2 additives on the isothermal oxidation resistance of fully dense zirconium diboride / Fei Peng, Yolande Berta, Robert F. Speyer

1868 The manifestation of oxygen contamination in ErD2 thin films / Chad M. Parish, Clark S. Snow, Luke N. Brewer

1880 Application of novel ionic liquids for reverse atom transfer radical polymerization of methacrylonitrile without any additional ligand / Hou Chen, Yanfeng Meng, Ying Liang, Zixuan Lu, Pingli Lv

1886 Glass-forming ability and differences in the crystallization behavior of ribbons and rods of Cu36Zr48Al8Ag8 bulk glass-forming alloy / Dmitri V. Louzguine-Luzgin, Guoqiang Xie, Song Li, Qingsheng Zhang, Wei Zhang, C. Suryanarayana, Akihisa Inoue

No. 6 OUTSTANDING SYMPOSIUM PAPER 1901 Vanadium (IV) benzenedicarboxylate: A novel adsorbent for selective

separations / Lumei Liu, Xiqu Wang, A.J. Jacobson ARTICLES 1906 Brittle-to-ductile transition in ultrathin Ta/Cu film systems / Patric

A. Gruber, Eduard Arzt, Ralph Spolenak 1919 Sputtering pressure dependence of hydrogen-sensing effect of palladium

films / Chung Wo Ong, Yu Ming Tang 1928 Room-temperature hydrogen-induced resistivity response of Pd/Mg–Ni

films / Yu Ming Tang, Chung Wo Ong 1936 Effect of Li3N additive on the hydrogen storage properties of Li-Mg-N-H

system / Lai-Peng Ma, Zhan-Zhao Fang, Hong-Bin Dai, Xiang-Dong Kang, Yan Liang, Pei-Jun Wang, Ping Wang, Hui-Ming Cheng

1943 Stress analysis of microwedge indentation-induced delamination / MingHao Zhao, LiPan Yao, Tong-Yi Zhang

1950 Instrumented indentation microscope applied to the elastoplastic indentation contact mechanics of coating/substrate composites / N. Hakiri, A. Matsuda, M. Sakai

1960 Elastic to elastic–plastic transition of Al2O3/TiC ceramics studied by nanoindentation / Katrin Zimmermann, Gerold A. Schneider

1967 Phase transformations in (111) Si after spherical indentation / Ayesha J. Haq, P.R. Munroe

1976 Revisit of the two-dimensional indentation deformation of an elastic half-space / Fuqian Yang, Yang-Tse Cheng

1983 Microstructures induced by femtosecond laser pulses inside glasses / Dong Su, Nan Jiang, Jianrong Qiu, John C.H. Spence

1989 Phase transition and thermal expansion coefficient of leucite ceramics with addition of SiO2 / Juan Paulo Wiff, Yoshiaki Kinemuchi, Shimako Naito, Ayako Uozumi, Koji Watari

1994 A computational study of SrTiO3 thin film deposition: Morphology and growth modes / Jennifer L. Wohlwend, Cosima N. Boswell, Simon R. Phillpot, Susan B. Sinnott

2001 Synthesis and room-temperature ferromagnetism of cobalt-doped SnO2 nanowires / Jin Wu, Ke Yu, Yongsheng Zhang, Lijun Li, Ziqiang Zhu

2006 Atomic arrangement variations of 30° in-plane rotation domain boundaries in ZnO thin films grown on Si substrates due to thermal annealing / J.W. Shin, J.Y. Lee, Y.S. No, T.W. Kim, W.K. Choi

2011 Phenomenological analysis of densification mechanism during spark plasma sintering of MgAl2O4 / Guillaume Bernard-Granger, Nassira Benameur, Ahmed Addad, Mats Nygren, Christian Guizard, Sylvain Deville

2021 Nitriding of yttria-stabilized zirconia in atmospheric pressure microwave plasma / R. Milani, R.P. Cardoso, T. Belmonte, C.A. Figueroa, C.A. Perottoni, J.E. Zorzi, G.V. Soares, I.J.R. Baumvol

2029 Microstructure and electrical properties of 0.5PZN-0.5PZT relaxor ferroelectrics close to the morphotropic phase boundary / Lu-Yang Zhao, Yu-Dong Hou, Li-Min Chang, Man-Kang Zhu, Hui Yan

2035 Ball milling-induced pyrochlore-to-tungsten bronze phase transition in RbNbWO6 / Janete E. Zorzi, Cintia L.G. de Amorim, Raquel Milani, Carlos A. Figueroa, João A.H. da Jornada, Claudio A. Perottoni

2042 Effects of size and surface on luminescence properties of submicron upconversion NaYF4:Yb,Er particles / Du Yuan, Guang Shun Yi, Gan Moog Chow

2051 Wide range (20–200 nm) size control of spherical ferrite particles grown on seed crystals in aqueous solution added with sucrose / Toshiyuki Tanaka, Hironori Nagai, Masaru Tada, Takashi Nakagawa, Adarsh Sandhu, Yutaka Tamaura, Hiroshi Handa, Masanori Abe

2056 Processing, mechanical properties and oxidation behavior of TaC and HfC composites containing 15 vol% TaSi2 or MoSi2 / Diletta Sciti, Laura Silvestroni, Stefano Guicciardi, Daniele Dalle Fabbriche, Alida Bellosi

2066 Role of Fe incorporation in the self-propagating high-temperature synthesis reaction in an Al–Ti–B4C system / Ping Shen, Wenya Li, Binglin Zhou, Qichuan Jiang

2079 Correlation of reactant particle size on residual stresses of nanostructured NiAl generated by self-propagating high-temperature synthesis / Iris V. Rivero, Michelle L. Pantoya, Karthik Rajamani, Simon M. Hsiang

2089 High-pressure and high-temperature sintering of nanostructured bulk NiAl materials / Shanmin Wang, Duanwei He, Yongtao Zou, Jianjun Wei, Li Lei, Yongjun Li, Jianghua Wang, Wendan Wang, Zili Kou

2097 Texture characteristics controlled by single slip plane slipping in the warm-rolled Fe-14Mn-5Si-9Cr-5Ni shape memory alloy / H. Li, F. Yin, T. Sawaguchi, X. Zhao, K. Tsuzaki

2107 Shape-memory NiTi–Nb foams / Ampika Bansiddhi, David C. Dunand 2118 Ultrafine-grained Ti66Nb13Cu8Ni6.8Al6.2 composites fabricated by spark

plasma sintering and crystallization of amorphous phase / Y.Y. Li, C. Yang, W.P. Chen, X.Q. Li, S.G. Qu

2123 Microstructure and properties of high-conductivity, super-high-strength Cu–8.0Ni–1.8Si–0.6Sn–0.15Mg alloy / Z. Li, Z.Y. Pan, Y.Y. Zhao, Z. Xiao, M.P. Wang

2130 Mg–Ni–(Gd,Nd) bulk metallic glasses with improved glass-forming ability and mechanical properties / J. Yin, G.Y. Yuan, Z.H. Chu, J. Zhang, W.J. Ding

2141 Preferential growth and orientation relationship of Ag3Sn grains formed between molten Sn and (001) Ag single crystal / H.F. Zou, H.J. Yang, J. Tan, Z.F. Zhang

2145 Bone-like growth of hydroxyapatite in the biomimetic coating of Ti-6Al-4V alloy pretreated with protein at 25°C / Jui Chakraborty, Matjaz Mazaj, Renu Kapoor, S. Pavana Gouri, Nina Daneu, Mithlesh K. Sinha, Gopal Pande, Debabrata Basu

2154 Synthesis of calcium phosphate crystals in a silica hydrogel containing phosphate ions / Taishi Yokoi, Masakazu Kawashita, Giichiro Kawachi, Koichi Kikuta, Chikara Ohtsuki

2161 Cavitation damage incorporating cavity growth in submicrometer-grained titanium alloy / Young Gun Ko, Dong Hyuk Shin, Chong Soo Lee

No. 7 OUTSTANDING SYMPOSIUM PAPER 2173 The scanning electron acoustic microscopy investigation on ferroic

materials under local stress / Hongzhang Song, Yongxiang Li, Kunyu Zhao, Huarong Zeng, Guorong Li, Qingrui Yin

2179 Electron energy structure of self-assembled In(Ga)As nanostructures probed by capacitance-voltage spectroscopy and one-dimensional numerical simulation / Wen Lei, Christian Notthoff, Matthias Offer, Cedrik Meier, Axel Lorke, Chennupati Jagadish, Andreas D. Wieck

2185 Molecular hydrogen carrier with activated nanohydride and ammonia / Yoshitsugu Kojima, Kyoichi Tange, Satoshi Hino, Shigehito Isobe, Masami Tsubota, Kosei Nakamura, Masashi Nakatake, Hiroki Miyaoka, Hikaru Yamamoto, Takayuki Ichikawa

2191 Structural variability of edge dislocations in a SrTiO3 low-angle [001] tilt grain boundary / James P. Buban, Miaofang Chi, Daniel J. Masiel, John P. Bradley, Bin Jiang, Henning Stahlberg, Nigel D. Browning

ARTICLES 2200 Shape-controlled synthesis for silver: Triangular/hexagonal nanoplates,

chain-like nanoplate assemblies, and nanobelts / Xin He, Xiujian Zhao, Yuanzhi Li, Xiaotao Sui

2210 Phase boundary effects on the mechanical deformation of core/shell Cu/Ag nanoparticles / Bin Zheng, Yi Nong Wang, Min Qi, Elissa H. Williams

2215 NMR and Raman spectroscopic characterization of single walled carbon nanotube composites of polybutadiene / George D. Bennett, Steve G. Greenbaum, Frank J. Owens

2221 Synthesis and field-responsive properties of SrTiO3 nanoparticle/polymer hybrid / Junji Umeda, Wataru Sakamoto, Toshinobu Yogo

2229 Magnetic and electronic transport properties of nanocomposites of superconducting Mo carbides' nanoparticles embedded in a ferromagnetic carbon matrix / Zhen H. Wang, Da Li, Dianyu Geng, Song Ma, Wei Liu, Zhi D. Zhang

2235 Zirconium tungstate reinforced cyanate ester composites with enhanced dimensional stability / Prashanth Badrinarayanan, Ben Mac Murray, Michael R. Kessler

2243 Structural and optical properties of nanocrystalline ZnO thin films derived from clear emulsion of monodispersed ZnO nanocrystals / Masashi Inoguchi, Keigo Suzuki, Nobuhiko Tanaka, Keisuke Kageyama, Hiroshi Takagi

2252 Nitrogen function of aluminum-nitride codoped ZnO films deposited using cosputter system / Li-Wen Lai, Jheng-Tai Yan, Chia-Hsun Chen, Li-Ren Lou, Ching-Ting Lee

2259 Evolution of photoluminescence from Si nanocrystals embedded in a SiO2 matrix prepared by reactive pulsed laser deposition / Fang Fang, Wei Zhang, Jian Sun, Ning Xu, Jiang Zhu, Zhifeng Ying, Jiada Wu

2268 Microwave-assisted synthesis of various gallium oxyhydroxide nanorods and their controllable conversion into different gallium oxide polymorphs / Suxiang Ge, Lizhi Zhang, Huimin Jia, Zhi Zheng

2276 Synthesis and oxidation stability of monosized and monocrystalline Pr nanoparticles / Shubhra Kala, Bodh Raj Mehta, Frank Einar Kruis, Vidya Nand Singh

2286 Formation of GaSb core-shell nanofibers by a thermally induced phase decomposition process / Alejandro G. Perez-Bergquist, Kai Sun, Lumin Wang, Yanwen Zhang

2293 P-type CuInSe2 thin films prepared by selenization of one-step electrodeposited precursors / Lei Wan, Yongsheng Cao, Deliang Wang

2301 Effect of Streptococcus mutans on mechanical properties of human dental structures / Shou-Yi Chang, Ren-Jei Chung, Fang-Cheng Chou, Hsiang-Long Hsiao, Hung-Bin Hsu

2307 Chitosan-poly(acrylic acid) complex modified paramagnetic Fe3O4 nanoparticles for camptothecin loading and release / Aiping Zhu, Xiadan Luo, Sheng Dai

2316 Spectroscopic study of L-arginine interaction with potassium dihydrogen phosphate crystals / Jayesh R. Govani, William G. Durrer, Marian Manciu, Cristian Botez, Felicia S. Manciu

2321 Formation of chainlike structures in an Mn-89.7 wt%Sb alloy during isothermal annealing process in the semisolid state in a high magnetic field / Tie Liu, Qiang Wang, Chao Zhang, Ao Gao, Donggang Li, Jicheng He

2331 Solidified microstructure evolution of Mn-Sb near-eutectic alloy under high magnetic field conditions / Qiang Wang, Ao Gao, Tie Liu, Feng Liu, Chao Zhang, Jicheng He

2338 Experimental investigation of Zr-rich Zr–Zr2Ni–(Zr,Ti)2Ni ternary eutectic system / Dong-Myoung Lee, Ju-Hyun Sun, Dong-Han Kang, Seung-Yong Shin, Chi-Hwan Lee

2346 Indentation behavior of a ZCAP-3 bulk metallic glass: Effects of the fatigue deformation / Fuqian Yang, Hongmei Dang, Gongyao Wang, Yoshihiko Yokoyama, Peter K. Liaw

2353 Effect of melt temperature on the mechanical properties of bulk metallic glasses / Golden Kumar, Tadakatsu Ohkubo, Kazuhiro Hono

2361 Structural and elastic properties of Cu6Sn5 and Cu3Sn from first-principles calculations / Jiunn Chen, Yi-Shao Li, Ping-Feng Yang, Chung-Yuan Ren, Di-Jing Huang

2373 In situ observation of phase formation in a Cu–In–2Se precursor layer using micro-Raman scattering spectroscopy / Deliang Wang, Yongsheng Cao, Lei Wan

2378 A new viewpoint to the mechanism for the effects of melt overheating on solidification of Pb-Bi alloys / Fang-Qiu Zu, Jie Chen, Xian-Fen Li, Li-Na Mao, Yong-Chi Liu

2385 Formation of two-phase coupled microstructure in AISI 304 stainless steel during directional solidification / J.W. Fu, Y.S. Yang, J.J. Guo, J.C. Ma, W.H. Tong

2391 Reduction of titanium oxide in the presence of nickel by nonequilibrium hydrogen gas / Hidehiro Sekimoto, Tetsuya Uda, Yoshitaro Nose, Shigeo Sato, Hiroaki Kakiuchi, Yasuhiro Awakura

2400 Influences of oxygen impurity contained in nitrogen on the reaction of titanium with nitrogen / Fu-Hsing Lu, Bor-Feng Jiang, Jen-Li Lo, Mu-Hsuan Chan

2409 Tarnishing film-induced brittle cracking of brass / Cheng Zhang, Yan Jing Su, Li Jie Qiao, Wu Yang Chu

2416 High-pressure cation-exchange treatment of a ZSM-5 zeolite / Aijie Han, Yu Qiao

2420 Reactive wetting of polycrystalline TiC by molten Zr55Cu30Al10Ni5 metallic glass alloy / Ping Shen, Qiaoli Lin, Qichuan Jiang, Hidetoshi Fujii, Kiyoshi Nogi

2428 Formation of tough interlocking microstructure in ZrB2–SiC-based ultrahigh-temperature ceramics by pressureless sintering / Ji Zou, Guo-Jun Zhang, Yan-Mei Kan

2435 Characterization of fly ash reactivity in hydrating cement by neutron scattering / Walairat Bumrongjaroen, Richard A. Livingston, Dan A. Neumann, Andrew J. Allen

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS 2449 Noncontact thermophysical property measurement of liquid cerium by

electrostatic levitation / Jianqiang Li, Takehiko Ishikawa, Junpei T. Okada, Yuki Watanabe, Jianding Yu, Shinichi Yoda, Zhangfu Yuan

No. 8 OUTSTANDING SYMPOSIUM PAPER 2461 Surface stability and electronic structure of hydrogen- and fluorine-

terminated diamond surfaces: A first principles investigation / Fatih G. Sen, Yue Qi, Ahmet T. Alpas

ARTICLES 2471 Effects of surface charging treatment on outer and inner surfaces of a

nanoporous carbon / Weiyi Lu, Aijie Han, Taewan Kim, Hyuck Lim, Yu Qiao

2476 Microstructural properties and formation mechanisms of GaN nanorods grown on Al2O3 (0001) substrates / Kyu Hyung Lee, Jeong Yong Lee, Young Hae Kwon, Tae Won Kang, Dong Hun Kim, Dea Uk Lee, Tae Whan Kim

2483 The location and effects of Si in (Ti1–xSix)Ny thin films / Axel Flink, Manfred Beckers, Jacob Sjölén, Tommy Larsson, Slawomir Braun, Lennart Karlsson, Lars Hultman

2499 Morphological evolution of calcium apatites from nanorods to hollow spheres mediated by acetic acid / Junfeng Hui and Daidi Fan

2503 Synthesis and thermodynamic evaluation of intermetallic Mg-Ni/Mg-Cu nanoscale powders / Jun-Peng Lei, Xing-Long Dong, Fu-Guo Zhao, Hao Huang, Xue-Feng Zhang, Bo Lu, M.K. Lei

2511 Effects of the catalysts on the evolution of in-plane stress in alkoxide-derived silica gel coatings during heating / Hiromitsu Kozuka, Tetsuya Iwase

2520 Phase configuration, nanostructure, and mechanical behaviors in Ti-B-C-N thin films / Yonghao Lu, Junping Wang, Yaogen Shen, Dongbai Sun

2528 Rapid synthesis of bulk Ti2AlC by self-propagating high temperature combustion synthesis with a pseudo–hot isostatic pressing process / Yuelei Bai, Xiaodong He, Yibin Li, Chuncheng Zhu, Sam Zhang

2536 Fabrication and characterization of novel bicrystalline ZnO nanowires / Huizhao Zhuang, Dexiao Wang, Jiabing Shen, Chengshan Xue, Xiaokai Zhang, Hang Liu

2541 Sol-gel synthesis and characterization of Ag nanoparticles in ZrO2 thin films / Eisuke Yokoyama, Hironobu Sakata, Moriaki Wakaki

2547 Preparation and characterization of polypyrrole/TiO2 nanocomposite and its photocatalytic activity under visible light irradiation / Shengying Li, Mingkai Chen, Lijun He, Fei Xu, Guohu Zhao

2555 Preparation and enhancement of second-order nonlinearity of hybrid PMMA/SiO2 glass with Sb2S3 nanocrystals / Qiming Liu, Wei Zhou, Xinmiao Lu, Ting Hu, Xiujian Zhao

2561 On the effects of thermal treatment on the composition, structure, morphology, and optical properties of hydrogenated amorphous silicon-oxycarbide / Spyros Gallis, Vasileios Nikas, Eric Eisenbraun, Mengbing Huang, Alain E. Kaloyeros

2574 Preparation and visible-light photocatalyst activity of nanometric-sized TiO2-xNy powders from a two-microemulsion process / Wein-Duo Yang, Wen-Chung Lin, Chunhui Yang, Zen-Ja Chung, I-Lun Huang

2584 Luminescent properties of Y2O3:Eu3+ nanophosphor prepared from urea added precursor using flame spray pyrolysis / Jae Seok Lee, Se Jin Kim, Tae Kon Kim, Rajiv K. Singh, Madhav B. Ranade

2589 The temperature-dependent luminescence properties of BaAl2-xSixO4-xNx:Eu2+ and its application in yellowish-green light emitting diode / Mei Zhang, Baohong Li, Jing Wang, Zhiyang Zhang, Qiuhong Zhang, Qiang Su

2596 Atomic-scale structural and compositional analyses of Ruddlesden-Popper planar faults in AO-excess SrTiO3 (A = Sr2+, Ca2+, Ba2+) ceramics / Sašo Šturm, Makoto Shiojiri, Miran Ceh

2605 High-strength bulk Al-based bimodal ultrafine eutectic composite with enhanced plasticity / Jin Man Park, Norbert Mattern, Uta Kühn, Jürgen Eckert, Ki Buem Kim, Won Tae Kim, Kamanio Chattopadhyay, Do Hyang Kim

2610 Reinforcing effects of carbon nanotubes in structural aluminum matrix nanocomposites / Hyunjoo Choi, Jaehyuck Shin, Byungho Min, Junsik Park, Donghyun Bae

2617 Analysis and characterization by electron backscatter diffraction of microstructural evolution in the adiabatic shear bands in Fe–Cr–Ni alloys / Huajie Yang, Yongbo Xu, Yasuaki Seki, Vitali F. Nesterenko, Marc André Meyers

2628 250°C isothermal section of ternary Sn-In-Cu phase equilibria / Shih-kang Lin, Ting-ying Chung, Sinn-wen Chen, Chih-horng Chang

2638 Formation mechanism of Sn-patch between SnAgCu solder and Ti/Ni(V)/Cu under bump metallization / Kai-Jheng Wang, Yan-Zuo Tsai, Jenq-Gong Duh, Toung-Yi Shih

2644 Experimental investigation and thermodynamic calculation in the Ag–Bi–Ni and Cu–Bi–Ni systems / Feng Gao, Cuiping Wang, Xingjun Liu,, Yoshikazu Takaku, Ikuo Ohnuma, Kiyohito Ishida

2654 Directional recrystallization and microstructures of an Fe–6.5wt%Si alloy / Zhongwu Zhang, Guang Chen, Hongbin Bei, Feng Li, Feng Ye, Guoliang Chen, Chain-Tsuan Liu

2661 Electropulsing-induced phase transformations in a Zn–Al-based alloy / Yaohua Zhu, Sandy To, Wingbun Lee, Xingming Liu, Yanbin Jiang, Guoyi Tang

2670 Grain refinement effect of a pulsed magnetic field on as-cast superalloy K417 / Xiaoping Ma, Yingju Li, Yuansheng Yang

2677 Magnetic force microscopy of combined reaction-processed polycrystalline equiatomic bulk L10 FePd / Paul R. Ohodnicki, Anirudha Desphande, Jorg M.K. Wiezorek, Timothy J. Klemmer

2688 A constitutive theory and modeling on deviation of shear band inclination angles in bulk metallic glasses / Ming Zhao, Mo Li

2697 Free-volume dependent pressure sensitivity of Zr-based bulk metallic glass / Alban Dubach, K. Eswar Prasad, Rejin Raghavan, Jörg F. Löffler, Johann Michler, Upadrasta Ramamurty

2705 Epitaxial CoSi2 formation using an oxynitride buffer layer / Jaesang Lee, Keunwoo Lee, Dongock Kim, Taeyong Park, Honggyu Kim, Hyeongtag Jeon

2711 Corrosion products on biomedical magnesium alloy soaked in simulated body fluids / Yunchang Xin, Kaifu Huo, Tao Hu, Guoyi Tang, Paul K. Chu

2720 Dehydrogenation/rehydrogenation mechanism in aluminum destabilized lithium borohydride / Xuebin Yu, Guanglin Xia, Zaiping Guo, Huakun Liu

2728 Preparation and characterization of conducting nylon 6 fibers / A. Saritha Chandran, Sunil K. Narayanankutty

No. 9 ARTICLES 2741 Strong and ductile platelet-reinforced polymer films inspired by nature:

Microstructure and mechanical properties / Lorenz J. Bonderer, André R. Studart, Jörg Woltersdorf, Eckhard Pippel, Ludwig J. Gauckler

2755 Fabrication of ultrafine fibrous polytetrafluoroethylene porous membranes by electrospinning / Jie Xiong, Pengfei Huo, Frank K. Ko

2762 The effects of ruthenium-oxidation states on Ru dissolution in PtRu thin-film electrodes / Yejun Park, Byungjoo Lee, Chunjoong Kim, Yuhong Oh, Seunghoon Nam, Byungwoo Park

2767 Current-induced growth of P-rich phase at electroless nickel/Sn interface / Qiliang Yang, Panju Shang, Jing D. Guo, Zhiquan Liu, Jian-Ku Shang

2775 Observations of continuous tin whisker growth in NdSn3 intermetallic compound / Ai-Ping Xian, Meng Liu

2784 The influence of drying temperature on the close packed structure of silanized monolayers deposited on indium tin oxide (ITO) substrates / Stefano D’Elia, Valentin Barna, Nicola Scaramuzza, Giuseppe Strangi, Roberto Bartolino

2795 Effects of ultraviolet radiation on ultra-low-dielectric constant thin film fracture properties / Ryan Scott Smith, Ting Y. Tsui, Paul S. Ho

2802 Growth mechanism and magnetic properties for the out-of-plane–oriented Nd–Fe–B films / Q. Yao, Wei Liu, W.B. Cui, F. Yang, X.G. Zhao, Z.D. Zhang

2813 Growth of aligned multiwalled carbon nanotubes on bulk copper substrates by chemical vapor deposition / Ge Li, Supriya Chakrabarti, Mark Schulz, Vesselin Shanov

2821 Synthesis of ZnS nanorod arrays by an aqua-solution hydrothermal process on pulse-plating Zn nanocrystallines / Wen Yu, Pengfei Fang, Shaojie Wang

2828 Silver nanoparticles for printable electronics and biological applications / Krishna Balantrapu, Dan V. Goia

2837 Synthesis of the new RGaMnO5 (R = Ho, Er, Tm) oxides: Structural and magnetic features / Cristina de la Calle, Jose A. Alonso, Maria J. Martínez-Lope, Mar García-Hernández, M.T. Fernández-Díaz

2845 Improvement of physico-chemical properties by addition of H2O2: An extensive case study on the RE-doped ceria system (RE = Gd, Sm) / Balaji P. Mandal, Vinita Grover, Mrinal R. Pai, and Avesh K. Tyagi

2855 Nanocrystalline Nd2–yGdyZr2O7 pyrochlore: Facile synthesis and electrical characterization / Balaji P. Mandal, Atanu Dutta, S.K. Deshpande, R.N. Basu, Avesh K. Tyagi

2863 Fabrication of high-strength transparent MgAl2O4 spinel polycrystals by optimizing spark-plasma-sintering conditions / Koji Morita, Byung-Nam Kim, Keijiro Hiraga, Hidehiro Yoshida

2873 Effects of solvents and Sb sources on the morphologies of LaFe3CoSb12 nanopowders made by the hydro/solvo thermal method / Pengxian Lu, Zigang Shen, Xing Hu

2880 Mechanochemical synthesis of a Mg-Li-Al-H complex hydride / Jing Zhang, Wei Yan, Chenguang Bai, Fusheng Pan

2886 Pressure hysteresis in the TiMn1.5Vx-H2 (x = 0.1–0.5) system / Yongtao Li, Shiyou Zheng, Fang Fang, Hanping Zhang, Qingan Zhang, Dalin Sun

2892 Microstructural evolution and mechanical properties of Mg–Cu–Zn ultrafine eutectic composites / Gi A. Song, Wonhee Lee, Nae S. Lee, Ki B. Kim, Jin M. Park, Do H. Kim, Do H. Kim, Jaeseoul Lee, Jun-Sik Park

2899 Effect of prestrain on microstructure and mechanical behavior of aged Ti–10V–2Fe–3Al alloy / Wei Chen, Zhenya Song, Lin Xiao, Qiaoyan Sun, Jun Sun, Peng Ge

2909 High-strength Al87Ni8La5 bulk alloy produced by spark plasma sintering of gas atomized powders / Sergio Scudino, Kumar B. Surreddi, Hoang V. Nguyen, Gang Liu, Thomas Gemming, Mira Sakaliyska, Ji S. Kim, Jens Vierke, Markus Wollgarten, Jurgen Eckert

2917 Evaluation of matrix strength in ultra-fine grained pure Al by nanoindentation / Ling Zhang, Takahito Ohmura, Satoshi Emura, Nobuaki Sekido, Fuxing Yin, Xiaohua Min, Kaneaki Tsuzaki

2924 Initiation and evolution of shear bands in bulk metallic glass under tension—An in situ scanning electron microscopy observation / Qingping Cao, Feng Xu, Jingwei Liu, Lianyi Chen, Xiaodong Wang, Jianzhong Jiang, Alexander Minkow, Kejing Yang, H.J. Fecht, Julia Ivanisenko, Shaoxing Qu

2931 Improved wettability of Sn-based solder over the Cu60Zr30Ti10 bulk metallic glass surface / A. Imai, M. Katayama, S. Maruyama, H. Nishikawa, T. Wada, H. Kimura, M. Fukuhara, T. Takemoto, A. Inoue, Y. Matsumoto

2935 Formation and properties of new Cu-based bulk glassy alloys with critical diameters up to 1.5 cm / Wei Zhang, Qingsheng Zhang, Chunling Qin, Akihisa Inoue

2941 Formation and bioactivation of Zr-Al-Co bulk metallic glasses / Takeshi Wada, Fengxiang Qin, Xinmin Wang, Masahiro Yoshimura, Akihisa Inoue, Naota Sugiyama, Rieko Ito, Nobuhiro Matsushita

2949 Coarsening of polyhedral grains in a liquid matrix / Yang-Il Jung, Suk-Joong L. Kang, Duk Yong Yoon

2960 Elastic modulus of low-k dielectric thin films measured by load-dependent contact-resonance atomic force microscopy / Gheorghe Stan, Sean W. King, Robert F. Cook

2965 Effective indenter radius and frame compliance in instrumented indentation testing using a spherical indenter / Seung-Kyun Kang, Ju-Young Kim, Ingeun Kang, Dongil Kwon

2974 Measuring the elastic modulus and residual stress of freestanding thin films using nanoindentation techniques / Erik G. Herbert, Warren C. Oliver, Maarten P. de Boer, George M. Pharr

2986 Plastic zone at crack tip: A nanolab for formation and study of metallic glassy nanostructures / X.X. Xia, Wei H. Wang, A. Lindsay Greer

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS 2993 Dielectric properties and energy storage capability of antiferroelectric

Pb0.92La0.08Zr0.95Ti0.05O3 film-on-foil capacitors / Beihai Ma, Do-Kyun Kwon, Manoj Narayanan, U. (Balu) Balachandran

2997 Effect of nitrogen in the reaction atmosphere on the microstructure of carbon nanofibers grown by thermal chemical vapor deposition / Ting-Yu Wu, Shinn-Shyong Tzeng

3003 Thermal explosion reaction in the Ti–B4C system in air / Y.F. Yang, H.Y. Wang, J.G. Wang, Q.C. Jiang

No. 10 ARTICLES 3013 Obtaining shear relaxation modulus and creep compliance of linear

viscoelastic materials from instrumented indentation using axisymmetric indenters of power-law profiles / Yang-Tse Cheng, Fuqian Yang

3018 Electronic transport through crossed conducting polymer nanowires / Yun-Ze Long, Jean-Luc Duvail, Qing-Tao Wang, Meng-Meng Li, Chang-Zhi Gu

3023 Energy transfer in a ternary system composed of Tb(DBM)3Phen, Eu(DBM)3Phen, and poly(N-vinylcarbazole) / Yanhua Luo, Xiaowu Yu, Wei Su, Zhoushun Zhang, Wenxuan Wu, Qing Yan, Qijin Zhang

3032 Effects of defects on the morphologies of GaN nanorods grown on Si (111) substrates / Kyu Hyung Lee, Jeong Yong Lee, Young Hae Kwon, Tae Won Kang, Joo Hyung You, Dea Uk Lee, Taewhan Kim

3038 Scale-dependent nanomechanical behavior and anisotropic friction of nanotextured silicon surfaces / Hanshen Zhang, Kyriakos Komvopoulos

3044 Optical absorbance enhancement by electrochemical surface roughening of CuInS2 thin films / Romain Cayzac, Florence Boulc'h, Virginie Hornebecq, Thierry Djenizian, Marc Bendahan, Marcel Pasquinelli, Philippe Knauth

3050 YVO4: RE3+ (RE = Eu, Sm, Dy, Er) nanophosphors: Facile hydrothermal synthesis, microstructure, and photoluminescence / Bing Yan, Jianhua Wu

3057 Secondary ion mass spectrometry study of Ti4+ diffusion properties in congruent Er:LiNbO3 codoped with moderate concentration of MgO / De-Long Zhang, Bei Chen, Liang Sun, Yu-Heng Xu, Edwin Yue-Bun Pun

3065 Magnetic tunnel junctions using LaSrMnO ferromagnetic electrodes and PbZrTiO3 piezoelectric barrier / A.K. Pradhan, Rajeh Mundle, Rajini B. Konda, Ozgul Yasar, Frances Williams, Messaoud Bahoura

3073 Aging-induced double hysteresis loops in bismuth-doped (Ba,Ca)TiO3 ferroelectric ceramics / Sining Yun, Xiaoli Wang, Jing Shi, Delong Xu

3078 Synthesis of cobalt-doped bismuth vanadate by combustion-synthesis: Influence of fuel on phase content and morphology / Banasri Roy, Paul A. Fuierer

3087 Microstructural characterization and crystallization kinetics of (1-x)TeO2-0.10CdF2-xPbF2 (x = 0.05, 0.10, and 0.15 mol) glasses / Demet Tatar, M. Lutfi Öveçoglu, Gonul Özen, Scott A. Speakman

3095 Analytical solution for the Kissinger equation / Pere Roura, Jordi Farjas 3099 Synergistic effect of crystalline metal on the plasticity of bulk metallic

glasses under uniaxial synchro-compression / Zhen H. Han, Lin He, Ming B. Zhong, Feng Jiang, Jun Sun

3108 Influence of casting temperature on microstructures and mechanical properties of Cu50Zr45.5Ti2.5Y2 metallic glass prepared using copper mold casting / Zhengwang Zhu, Haifeng Zhang, Hao Wang, Bingzhe Ding, Zhuang-Qi Hu, Han Huang

3116 Homogeneity of the Zr64.13Cu15.75Ni10.12Al10 bulk metallic glass / Lian-Yi Chen, Yue-Wu Zeng, Qing-Ping Cao, Byung-Joo Park, Yi-Meng Chen, Kazuhiro Hono, Ulla Vainio, Zao-Li Zhang, Ute Kaiser, Xiao-Dong Wang, Jian-Zhong Jiang

3121 Reverse Monte Carlo structural model for a zirconium-based metallic glass incorporating fluctuation microscopy medium-range order data / Jinwoo Hwang, Anna M. Clausen, Hongbo Cao, Paul M. Voyles

3130 Direct observations on the evolution of shear bands into cracks in metallic glass / Rui-Tao Qu, Fu-Fa Wu, Zhe-Feng Zhang, Jürgen Eckert

3136 Thermal stability and corrosion resistance of nanocrystallized zirconium formed by surface mechanical attrition treatment / Yong Han, Lan Zhang, Jian Lu, Wengting Zhang

3146 Work-hardening mechanisms of the Ti60Cu14Ni12Sn4Nb10 nanocomposite alloy / Amadeu Concustell, Jordi Sort, Jordina Fornell, Emma Rossinyol, Santiago Suriñach, Annett Gebert, Jurgen Eckert, M. Dolors Baró

3154 Experimental investigation and thermodynamic modeling of the ternary Al–Cu–Fe system / Hai-Lin Chen, Yong Du, Honghui Xu, Wei Xiong

3165 Nb effects on the structural and mechanical properties of TiAl alloy: Density-functional theory study/ Yongli Liu, Hong Li, Shaoqing Wang, Hengqiang Ye

3174 Grain refinement effect of pulsed magnetic field on solidified microstructure of superalloy IN718 / Xiaoping Ma, Yingju Li, Yuansheng Yang

3182 In situ monitoring of cracking behaviors of plasma-sprayed coatings by the laser acoustic emission technique / Koichi Taniguchi, Manabu Enoki, Makoto Watanabe, Seiji Kuroda, Kaita Ito

3190 First-principles study of oxygen incorporation and migration mechanisms in Ti2AlC / Ting Liao, Jingyang Wang, Meishuan Li, Yanchun Zhou

3197 Ignition and reaction mechanisms of thermal explosion reaction in the Ni-Ti-C system under air and Ar / Ya-Feng Yang, Hui-Yuan Wang, Jin-Guo Wang, Ru-Yi Zhao, Qi-Chuan Jiang

3206 Influence of flow ratio of N2 to (N2+Ar) mixture on the structure and properties of zirconium nitride films prepared by radio frequency magnetron sputtering / Yingrui Sui, Jiukai Liu, Bo Liu, Lihong Wang, Bin Yao

3213 The effect of porosity on the austenite to bainite transformation in powder metallurgy steels / Virendra S. Warke, Richard D. Sisson, Makhlouf M. Makhlouf

3220 Improved thermal properties of Al powders coated with submicron-sized hollow nickel particles / Jialiang Cheng, Huey H. Hng, Hsiao Y. Ng, Pei C. Soon, Yiew W. Lee

3226 The grain refinement mechanism of electrodeposited copper / Guoyong Wang, Zhonghao Jiang, Jianshe Lian, Qing Jiang

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS 3237 Method for preparing dispersed crystalline copper particles for electronic

applications / Ionel Halaciuga, Sylas LaPlante, Dan V. Goia 3241 Formation of a unique glass by spark plasma sintering of a zeolite /

Lianjun Wang, Wan Jiang, Lidong Chen, Zhijian Shen

No. 11 ARTICLES 3253 Mechanics-based analysis of selected features of the exoskeletal

microstructure of Popillia japonica / Liang Cheng, Liyun Wang, Anette M. Karlsson

3268 Measuring anisotropy in Young's modulus of copper using microcantilever testing / David E.J. Armstrong, Angus J. Wilkinson, Steve G. Roberts

3277 Surface-effect territory in small volume creep deformation / Fei Wang, Ping Huang, Tianjian Lu

3286 Contact damage of tetrahedral amorphous carbon thin films on silicon substrates / Oscar Borrero-López, Mark Hoffman, Avi Bendavid, Phil J. Martin

3294 High-resolution transmission-electron-microscopy study of ultrathin Al-induced crystallization of amorphous Si / Zumin Wang, Lars P.H. Jeurgens, Jiang Y. Wang, Fritz Phillipp, Eric J. Mittemeijer

3300 Mesoporous Co–B amorphous alloy films with enhanced catalytic efficiency prepared from a mixed-surfactant solution / Hui Li, Jun Liu, Haixia Yang, Hexing Li

3308 A thermally sensitive energy-absorbing composite functionalized by nanoporous carbon / Weiyi Lu, Venkata K. Punyamurtula, Aijie Han, Taewan Kim, Yu Qiao

3313 Structural and photoluminescence properties of laser processed ZnO/carbon nanotube nanohybrids / Brahim Aïssa, Christian Fauteux, My Ali El Khakani, Daniel Therriault

3321 Nanostructural C-Al-N thin films studied by x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, Raman and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy / Y.F. Han, T. Fu, Y.G. Shen

3331 Highly wear resistant chemisorbed polar ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene thin film on Si surface for micro-system applications / Nalam Satyanarayana, Sujeet K. Sinha, Seh-Chun Lim

3338 Inorganic islands on a highly stretchable polyimide substrate / Jeong-Yun Sun, Nanshu Lu, Juil Yoon, Kyu-Hwan Oh, Zhigang Suo, Joost J.Vlassak

3343 Synthesis of nitrogen-doped ZnO particles by decomposition of zinc nitrate hexahydrate in molten ammonium salts / Naofumi Uekawa, Takashi Kojima, Kazuyuki Kakegawa

3350 Thermochemistry of lanthanum zirconate pyrochlore / A.V. Radha, Sergey V. Ushakov, Alexandra Navrotsky

3358 Elaboration and characterization of novel polyamide-12-layered titanoniobates nanocomposites / Sophie Chausson, Richard Retoux, Jean-Michel Rueff, Loïc LE Pluart, Pierre-Jean Madec, Paul-Alain Jaffres

3372 Nanostructure development in photodeposited, titania-based thin films / J. David Musgraves, Barrett G. Potter,, Timothy J. Boyle

3380 Thermochemistry of glass forming Y-substituted Sr-analogues of titanite (SrTiSiO5) / Tae-Jin Park, Simon Li, Alexandra Navrotsky

3387 Extensive deformation behavior of an all-oxide Al2O3-TiO2 nanostructured multilayer ceramic at room temperature / Arcan F. Dericioglu, Yu Fu Liu, Yutaka Kagawa

3397 Microstructures and properties of direct laser sintered tungsten carbide (WC) particle reinforced Cu matrix composites with RE–Si–Fe addition: A comparative study / Dongdong Gu, Yifu Shen

3407 Effect of Sn concentration on massive spalling in high-Pb soldering reaction with Cu substrate / M.H. Tsai, Y.W. Lin, H.Y. Chuang, C.R. Kao

3412 Characterization of microstructures, mechanical properties, and oxidation behavior of coherent A2 + L21 Fe-Al-Ti / Ronny Krein, Martin Palm, Martin Heilmaier

3422 Unidirectional solidification of Zn-rich Zn-Cu hypoperitectic alloy / Hasan Kaya, Sevda Engin, Ugur Böyük, Emin Çadirli, Necmettin Marasli

3432 Influence of hydrogen on the tarnishing film-induced brittle cracking of brass / Cheng Zhang, Yan Jing Su, Li jie Qiao, Wu yang Chu

3439 Deformation-induced ambient temperature a-to-ß phase transition and nanocrystallization in (α + ß) titanium alloy / Yong Han, Huaye Zhuang, Jian Lu

3446 Atomistic simulation of sliding of [1010] tilt grain boundaries in Mg / Hao Zhang

3454 Is there a hexagonal-close-packed (hcp) face-centered-cubic (fcc) allotropic transformation in mechanically milled Group IVB elements? / Uma M.R. Seelam, Gagik Barkhordarian, Challapalli Suryanarayana

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS 3462 Air-stable, unoxidized, hydrocarbon-dispersible boron nanoparticles /

Brian Van Devener, Jesus Paulo L. Perez, Scott L. Anderson 3465 Effects of sample geometry on deformation modes of bulk metallic glasses

at the nano/micrometer scale / Jianchao Ye, Jian Lu, Yong Yang, Peter K. Liaw

ERRATUM 3469 Erratum: Corrigendum to Phenomenological analysis of densification

mechanism during spark plasma sintering of MgAl2O4 [J. Mater. Res. 24, 2011 (2009)]

No. 12

ARTICLES 3477 Anisotropic design of a multilayered biological exoskeleton / Lifeng

Wang, Juha Song, Christine Ortiz, Mary C. Boyce 3495 Sol-gel-derived glass scaffold with high pore interconnectivity and

enhanced bioactivity / Ana C. Marques, Rui M. Almeida, Amath Thiema, Shaojie Wang, Matthias M. Falk, Himanshu Jain

3503 Effects of homogeneous irradiation of electron beam with low potential on adhesive strength of polymethyl methacrylate composite sheet covered with nylon-6 film / Yoshitake Nishi, Hironori Sato, Hiroaki Takei, Keisuke Iwata

3510 Synthesis and characterization of monodisperse metalloporphyrin nanospheres / Chunhui Li, Wanjie Wang, Yanxia Cao

3516 Volatilization of alkali ions and effects of molecular weight of polyvinylpyrrolidone introduced in solution-derived ferroelectric K0.5Na0.5NbO3 films / Lingyan Wang, Kui Yao, Phoi Chin Goh, Wei Ren

3523 Relationship between layered crystal structure and mechanical properties of M3AlN (M = Zr and Hf): A first-principles investigation / Jiemin Wang, Jingyang Wang, Fangzhi Li, Yanchun Zhou

3533 Identification of delamination through TGO stresses due to indentation testing of an EB-PVD TBC / Makoto Tanaka, Yu-Fu Liu, Yutaka Kagawa

3543 Defects in three-dimensional spherical assemblies of Ni-doped ZnO nanocrystals / Kanhu Charan Barick, Mohammed Aslam, Jinsong Wu, Vinayak P. Dravid, Dhirendra Bahadur

3551 Crystal structure, electrical, and thermal properties of Ca0.5Th0.5VO4 / Sadequa J. Patwe, S. Nagabhusan Achary, Avesh K. Tyagi

3559 Critical shell thickness and emission enhancement of NaYF4: Yb,Er/NaYF4/silica core/shell/shell nanoparticles / Li Peng Qian, Du Yuan, Guang Shun Yi, Gan Moog Chow

3569 Strong below-band gap absorption of N-rich side GaNSb by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition / Se-Hoon Moon, Hyung-A Do, Joonmo Park, Sang-Wan Ryu

3573 In situ observations on deformation behavior and stretching-induced failure of fine pitch stretchable interconnect / Yung-Yu Hsu, Mario Gonzalez, Frederick Bossuyt, Fabrice Axisa, Jan Vanfleteren, Ingrid De Wolf

3583 Relation of Sn whisker formation to intermetallic growth: Results from a novel Sn-Cu "bimetal ledge specimen" / Lucine Reinbold, Nitin Jadhav, Eric Chason, K. Sharvan Kumar

3590 Plasticity improvement of Zr55Al10Ni5Cu30 bulk metallic glass by remelting master alloy ingots / Yong Hu, Jinfu Li, Tao Lin, Yaohe Zhou

3596 A high-strength extruded Mg-Gd-Zn-Zr alloy with superplasticity / Y.J. Wu, LM. Peng, X.Q. Zeng, D.L. Lin, W.J. Ding, Y.H. Peng

3603 Formation, microstructure, and mechanical properties of in situ Mg-Ni-(Gd,Nd) bulk metallic glass composite / Jian Yin, Guangyin Yuan, Zhenhua Chu, Jian Zhang, Wenjiang Ding

3611 Near-threshold fatigue crack growth in bulk metallic glass composites / Kombaiah Boopathy, Douglas C. Hofmann, William L. Johnson, Upadrasta Ramamurty

3620 Cooperative shear and catastrophic fracture of bulk metallic glasses from a shear-band instability perspective / Zheng Han, Yi Li

3628 Micro/meso-scale computational study of dislocation-stacking-fault tetrahedron interactions in copper / Jaime Marian, Enrique Martinez, Hyon-Jee Lee, Brian D. Wirth

3636 Influence of stack!ng-fauIt energy on the accommodation of severe shear strain in Cu-AI alloys during equal-channel angular pressing / Xianghai An, Qingyun Lin, Shen Qu, Gang Yang, Shiding Wu, Zhe-Feng Zhang

3647 Self-organized nanotubular layer on Ti-4Zr-22Nb-2Sn alloys formed in organic electrolytes / Yanqin Liang, Xianjin Yang, Zhenduo Cui, Shengli Zhu

3653 Numerical verification for instrumented spherical indentation techniques in determining the plastic properties of materials / Taihua Zhang, Peng Jiang, Yihui Feng, Rong Yang

3664 Analysis of soft impingement in nonisothermal precipitation / Kai Fan, Feng Liu, Wei Yang, Gencang Yang, Yaohe Zhou

3674 Enhancement of ductility in Mg-3AI-1Zn alloy with tilted basal texture by electropulsing / Lei Guan, Guoyi Tang, Paul K. Chu, Yanbin Jiang

3680 The characterization of corrosion resistance in the TJ-6AI-4V alloy fusion zone following a gas tungsten arc welding process / Le-Min Wang, Huang-Chih Lin

3689 The origin of nuclei and the refinement mechanism for solidified superalloy IN718 under pulsed magnetic field / Xiaoping Ma, Yingju Li, Yuansheng Yang

ERRATUM 3693 Erratum: "Nanocrystalline Nd2-yGdyZr2O7 pyrochlore: Facile synthesis and

electrical characterization" [J. Mater. Res. 24, 2855 (2009)] / Balaji P. Mandal, Atanu Dutta, Sudhanshu K. Deshpande, Rajendra N. Basu, Avesh K. Tyagi