Use of indigestible markers such as Cr2O3, Fe2O3, and TiO2 are commonly used in animal studies to evaluate digesta rate of passage and nutrient digestibility. Yet, the potential impact of indigestible markers on fecal microbial ecology and subsequent VFA generation is not known. Two experiments utilizing a total of 72 individually fed finishing pigs were conducted to describe the impact of diet...

Highly a-axis-textured CrO2 films have been deposited on Al2O3 (0001) substrates by chemical vapor deposition. CrO2 has been found to have highly a-axis (010)-oriented columnar growth on a Cr2O3 (0001) initial layer. The sixfold surface symmetry of the Cr2O3 initial layer leads to three equivalent in-plane orientations of the a-axis-oriented CrO2 unit cell. We report Cr L2,3 X-ray magnetic circ...

Two-dimensional (2D) nanoscale oxides have attracted research interest owing to their electronic, magnetic optical and catalytic properties. If they could be manufactured on a large scale, 2D oxides would be attractive for applications ranging from electronics to energy conversion and storage. Herein, we report facile fabrication of oxide nanosheets by rapid thermal annealing of corresponding h...

Chromium oxide coatings are chemically inert, have high mechanical strength, hardness and good optical characteristics; therefore, they have been widely used in many applications including corrosion protection, wear resistance, electronics, and optics. Cr2O3 is well suited for wear resistance applications, as it is one of the hardest oxides with 29.5 GPa hardness. Several deposition techniques ...

Thin oxide films formed on commercial metal/porcelain Ni-Cr alloy containing Be, were studied by using the electron probe microanalyzer (EPMA) with the glass lining technique and by the X-ray diffraction method with the Debye-Scherrer camera. Oxidation was restricted to form thin oxide films as follows; at 700•Ž for 5 minutes in air, at 1,000•Ž for 2 minutes in air, and at 1,000•Ž for 40 minute...

The thermally induced reaction of chlorinated ethanes on the nearlystoichiometric α-Cr2O3 (1012) surface results in the formation of gas phase hydrocarbons including ethylene, ethane, acetylene, 2-butene, 2-butyne and dihydrogen, and deposition of surface chlorine adatoms. No surface carbon or combustion products are observed in any reactions indicating no thermally induced C-C bond cleavage oc...

We have previously shown that oxide semiconductors (TiO2, NiO, Cr2O3, etc.) exhibit remarkable catalytic effects when heated at high temperatures of about 350–500 C and that the effect has been interpreted in terms of the formation of a large number of highly oxidative holes caused by thermal excitation of semiconductors. This prompted us to utilize this technology for complete removal of volat...