Defects and Diffusion in Ceramics X

This tenth volume in the series covering the latest results in the field includes abstracts of papers which have appeared since the publication of Annual Retrospective IX (Volume 268).As well as the 607 ceramics abstracts, the issue includes - in line with the new editorial policy of including original papers on all of the major material groups: &quote;Synthesis and Characterization of Ba Defective ZnO Nano-Particle&quote; (M.El-Hofya and A.Salama), &quote;Diffusion Formation of Silicide Phases in Ni/Si(001) Nanodimensional Film System&quote; (S.I.Sidorenko, Y.N.Makogon, S.M.Voloshko, O.P.Pavlova, I.E.Kotenko, A.V.Mogilatenko and G.Beddies), &quote;Investigations of the EPR Parameters and Local Structure for One Cu2+ Center in CdS&quote; (L.H.Wei, S.Y.Wu, Y.X.Hu and X.F.Wang), &quote;Slow Positron Annihilation in Ion-Implanted Silicon&quote; (G.Singh, S.B.Shrivastava and M.K.Rathore), &quote;Semi-Empirical Parameterization of Interatomic Interactions and Kinetics of the Atomic Ordering in Ni-Fe-C Permalloys and Elinvars&quote; (V.A.Tatarenko, S.M.Bokoch, V.M.Nadutov, T.M.Radchenko and Y.B.Park), &quote;Formation of Point Defects in Dilute FCC Alloys&quote; (A.Ghorai), &quote;Mechanical Testing of Diffusion-Bonded Metallic Hollow Sphere Structures (MHSS)&quote; (C.Veyhl, R.Winkler, M.Merkel and A.Ochsner), &quote;Towards a Correlation between High-Temperature Creep and Volume Diffusion for Equiatomic NiTi Alloys&quote; (V.Taillebot, S.Divinsky, C.Lexcellent, J.Bernardini and D.L.Beke), &quote;Structural Characterisation of Diffusion-Bonded Hollow-Sphere Structures&quote; (C.Veyhl, R.Winkler, M.Merkel and A.Ochsner), &quote;Dislocation Recovery in Casting Alloy by Positron Lifetime Technique&quote; (M.A.Abdel-Rahman, M.S.Abdallah, N.A.Kamel and E.A.Badawi).