Characterization of Advanced Materials -- Contributors and Editors Text -- Table of Contents -- Probing Materials by Positron Annihilation Technique and Mossbauer Spectroscopy - Review -- Review on Magnesium Indium Oxide Thin Films: Material Properties and Preparation Techniques -- Synthesis of Lanthanum Nickelate and Praseodymium Substituted Compounds by Molten Salt Technique -- Synthesis and Characterization of the Nano Semiconducting Material Cadmium Sulphide -- Effect of Annealing on Cold Worked D9 Alloy by Photoacoustics -- Experimental Electronic Structure of the Thermoelectric Materials Bi2Te3 and Sb2Te3 -- Ultrasonic, Metallographic and Photo Acoustic Studies on Zircaloy-2 -- Laser Shot Peening of 304 Austenitic Stainless Steel without Protective Coating -- X-Ray and Photoacoustic Studies on Zircaloy-2 -- X-Ray Studies on PbS -- A Theoretical Estimation of the Charge Density Distribution in the Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors of Si1-xMx and Ge1-xMx (M = V, Mn, Co) -- Automation of Photoacoustic Spectrometer for NDE Applications -- Template Synthesis, Spectral and Redox Behavior of Metal Complexes of Macrocyclic Tetraaza Schiff Base and their Interaction with Herring Sperm DNA -- Copper (II) Complexes of Knoevenagel Condensate β-Diketimines as Models for Blue Copper and their Interaction with DNA -- Removal of Methylene Blue by Adsorption Process - A Comparative Study -- Synthesis and Characterization of Schiff Base with Bivalence Transition Metal Complexes Namely Cu, Co, Ni, Mn and Fe -- Synthesis and Characterization of Ligand and its Metal Complexes -- Phenol and Formaldehyde Cationic Resin Blended with Sulphonated Aegle Marmelos Charcoal -- Keywords Index -- Authors Index.