Bismuth ferrite (BiFeO3) nanocomposites were synthesized using a novel nano-agitator bead milling method followed by calcination. oxide and iron nanoparticles mixed in stoichiometric ratio milled for 3 h calcined at 650 °C air. X-ray diffraction with Rietveld refinement, scanning electron microscopy, transmission microscopy techniques used to elucidate the structure of BiFeO3. The particle diam...

Fifty nine patients with Helicobacter pylori positive duodenal ulcers that failed to heal after a six week course of treatment with H2 blockers were randomly assigned to one of the following three regimens: (i) bismuth subsalicylate, 600 mg three times daily (n = 19), (ii) ranitidine, 300 mg at night (n = 20), (iii) bismuth subsalicylate plus ranitidine (n = 20). Cumulative ulcer healing rates ...

Clostridium perfringens-associated necrotic enteritis causes significant economic losses. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of bismuth citrate, lactose, and organic acid on the development of necrotic enteritis in broilers. The first study was a dose response that evaluated bismuth citrate at 50, 100, or 200 ppm on bacterial intestinal colonization and lesion development as...

Based on a facile vapor-phase transport method without any catalyst and template, one-dimensional single-crystalline bismuth oxide (Bi2O3) micro/nanoribbons were fabricated on silicon substrates in large quantities and morphology-controlled fabrication of Bi2O3 was achieved from a single precursor. The widths of Bi2O3 ribbons varied from 0.2 to 20 microm depending on the deposition temperatures...

Perovskite and related Ruddlesden-Popper type transition metal oxides synthesised at high pressures and temperatures during the last decade are reviewed. More than 60 such new materials have been reported since 1995. Important developments have included perovskites with complex cation orderings on A and B sites, multiferroic bismuth-based perovskites, and new manganites showing colossal magneto...

The surface oxygen exchange kinetics of bismuth oxide stabilized with 25 mol% erbia (BE25) has been studied in the temperature and pO2 ranges 773–1,023 K and 0.1– 0.95 atm, respectively, using pulse-response O–O isotope exchange measurements. The results indicate that BE25 exhibits a comparatively high exchange rate, which is rate determined by the dissociative adsorption of oxygen. Defect chem...

Bismuth oxide kinetically stabilized by doping with a metastable structure of disordered fluorite ?-Bi2O3 has unique conductivity. Oxygen selective membranes at intermediate temperatures ~550?C, on the base cermet ?-Bi2O3/Ag, have highest potential for air separation and can be used to produce oxygen distributed multigeneration burning fossil carbon fuels. When searching optimal composition ?-B...

Bismuth vanadate (BiVO4) is a promising photoelectrode material for the oxidation of water, but fundamental studies of this material are lacking. To address this, we report electrical and photoelectrochemical (PEC) properties of BiVO4 single crystals (undoped, 0.6% Mo, and 0.3% W:BiVO4) grown using the floating zone technique. We demonstrate that a small polaron hopping conduction mechanism dom...

Coevaporated bismuth-tellurium and antimony-tellurium films were fabricated under various deposition conditions scontrolled evaporation rates of individual species, substrate temperature, and substrate materiald, and their thermoelectric sTEd properties sSeebeck coefficient, electrical resistivity, and carrier concentrationd were measured in search of optimal TE performance. The tellurium atomi...