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Lead Articles/Overviews of New Developments

Physicochemical and photochemical properties of nanoscale semiconductors-Dynamics of the charge carriers

Anil Kumar …1

Interaction of reflected shock waves in a cubical cavity

R.C. Srivastava…13

Purification to homogeneity and characterization of two antifungal proteins from the roots of Arachis hypogaea L.

S. Indira Devi, Pooja Vashista and Chandra B. Sharma…21

Antibacterial activity of seed extracts of Annona squomosa (L) against the pathogenic bacteria

S. Karthick Raja Namasivayam and R. Palaniappan…29

Characterizations of line sigraphs

Mukti Acharya and Deepa Sinha…31

An experiment for studying vacancy migration in alkali halides

Jai Prakash…35

Estimation of X-ray absorption fine structure phase shifts of copper (II) complexes

R.D. Gupta, S.K. Joshi, B.D. Shrivastava, M.C. Shah and J. Prasad…39

Evidences of microsomal degranulation in the liver of rats treated with organophosphates

S. K. Sahambi and C. K. Dhanju…45

Teratogenic effect of low doses of vitamin-A on developing rat embryos

Namita Mehrotra…49

74th Annual Session

…53

Science communication

…55

Obituary

…57