JOURNAL OF MATERIALS RESEARCH 1-9

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: 

Ln 3+ (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 highstrength 

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 4CaO Al2O3 Fe2O3 

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 Ni 2+ 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 highresolution 

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 Gadoped 

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

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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 


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 


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 


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 Sm 3+ , Ce 3+ 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:Pr 3+ 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 


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 halfspace 

/ 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 warmrolled 

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 


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 


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 


2461 Surface stability and electronic structure of hydrogen- and fluorineterminated 

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 alkoxidederived 

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 siliconoxycarbide 

/ 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-xSixO4xNx: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 = Sr 2+ , Ca 2+ , Ba 2+ ) 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 / Shihkang 

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 thinfilm 

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 


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

JOURNAL OF MATERIALS RESEARCH 1-9

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