Recent Advances in Science and Technology of Materials

of Volume 2.- Polymers.- Environmental Crazing and Fracture of Polymers in Nitrogen, Argon, and Helium.- Electrical Behaviour of Irradiated Polymers.- The Effect of Polar Groups on the Post-Irradiation Conductivity of Polystyrene.- Glass.- Redox Reactions and the Colours of Ancient Glasses.- Some Materials Problems in the Design of Glass Fiber Optical Waveguides.- Optical Absorption Characteristics of Copper Ions in Some Binary Alkali Borate Glasses.- Optical Absorption Produced by Silver Particles in Glass and by Sodium Particles in a Sodium Chloride Matrix.- Structural Changes in Borate Glasses.- Some Properties of Photochromic Borosilicate Glass.- On the Interpretation of the Vibrational Spectra of Vitreous Silica and Alkali Silicates.- The Rheology of Alkali Borate Glasses.- The Influence of Microstructure on Glass Strength.- Mechanical Properties and Microstructure of Glass Ceramics and Phase Separated Glasses.- Static Fatigue in Glass.- Relief of Residual Stresses in Glasses by Application of Ultrasonic Energy.- Composites and Ceramics.- Anomalous Hall Effect in the Spinel System CuxNil-xFe2O4.- Some Physical and Mechanical Properties of Iron Calcium Borate-Aluminium Composites.- The Application of Composite Materials for Prosthetic Devices.- Thermally Induced Stresses in Laminated Fiber Composites.- Preparation and Mechanical Properties of Aluminium-Silicon Composites.- ?-Alumina Ceramics.- Metallurgy.- Lattice Defects and Their Role in the Pre-Precipitation Process in Al Alloys.- Effect of Large Undercooling on Alloy Properties.- Some Metallurgical Aspects of Phase Transformation Mechanism in Uranium-Ruthenium Alloys.- Measurement of the Thermal Expansivity of Ag and Some Ag-In Alloys by High Temperature X-Ray Diffraction Camera.- Corrosion of Molybdenum by Molten Antimony.- A Comparative Study of the Corrosion Behaviour of Steel in Neutral and Alkaline Media.- The Parametrization of the Fermi Surfaces of Certain b.c.c. Transition and Rare-Earth Metallic Elements.- Effects of the Friction Temperature on Steels During Sliding Tests.- The Effect of Composition and Temperature on the Mechanical Behaviour of Aluminium-Copper Alloys.- Effect of Fast Neutron Irradiation on the Mechanical Properties of Some Zirconium Alloys and Stainless Steels.- On the Final Size of G. P. Zones in Al-Zn 10% Alloy During Isothermal Ageing.- Crystalline Effects on the Total Thermal Neutron Cross Section of Chromium and Zirconium.- Neutron Diffraction Study of ErFe2.- of Volume 1.- of Volume 3.