ISSN 0959-9428 JMACEP( 10) 1605-1739 (1996) Synthesis, structures, properties and applications of materials, particularly those associated with advanced technology Feature Article bubble core(formation of rmdicabkxcited moleculcs) \-bubble vicinityDietmar Peters <prcssurchcmpersturc grmdient, electrical fields, jctshhock waves onto metrVsolid surfmca or other phrsc boundaria) \ bulk solution (solid or soluted reactants, expelled reactive intermediates) Articles 16 19 Ferroelectric and antiferroelectric liquid crystalline phases in some pyridine carbox ylic acid derivatives N. Kasthuraiah, B. K. Sadashiva, S. Krishnaprasad and Geetha G. Nair 1627 Characterization of novel TCNQ and TCNE 1 : 1 and 1 : 2 salts of the y....... /ytetrakis(dimethyamino)ethylene dication, ...,.. ......Y [{(CH,>2N>,C-C(N(CH,)2~2I2+ James R. Fox, Bruce M. Foxman, Donna Guarrera, Joel S. Miller, Joseph C. Calabrese and Arthur H. Reis, Jr. 1633 Syntheses, characterization and non-linear optical properties of nickel complexes of multi- sulfur 1,2-dithiolene with strong near-IR absorption Jing-Lin Zuo, Tian-Ming Yao, Fei You, Xiao-Zeng You, Hoong-Kun Fun and Boon- Chuan Yip i ii 1679 Chemically modified kaolinite. Grafting of methoxy groups on the interlamellar aluminol surface of kaolinite James J. Tunney and Christian Detellier 1687 Growth of emerald crystals by evaporation of a KZO-MOO, flux Shuji Oishi and Hirofumi Yamamoto 1693 Nucleation and crystal growth of analcime from clear aluminosilicate solutions Geoffrey S.Wiersema and Robert W. Thompson 1701 Hydrothermal conversion of amorphous NiFe, -xAlx(OH)8 into crystalline phases Emilia Wolska, Wlodzimierz Wolski, Janusz Kaczmarek, Pawel Piszora and Wojciech Szajda 1709 Structural study by energy dispersive X-ray diffraction of amorphous mixed hydroxycarbonates containing Co, Cu, Zn, Al Marilena Carbone, Ruggero Caminiti and C. Sadun 17 17 The structures of strontium teIlurite and strontium telluride aluminate sodalites studied by powder neutron diffraction, EXAF’S, IR and MAS NMR spectroscopies Sandra E. Dann and Mark T. Weller 1) X flny Tthe 2) Cellllllallon SHlS 3) S;ln@e Poailh 4) slcglo Cryctnl Solid SLIIU Energy Ssnslllvm Ik(Cel0c ... 111 iv