This perspective article critically reviews the catalysis literature on the nature of the surface CrOx sites present on SiO2 in different environments. The recent application of in situ spectroscopic techniques that directly monitor the surface chromia sites on silica in different environments has significantly improved our fundamental understanding of supported CrOx/SiO2 catalysts.

Highly dispersed rhodium nanoparticles (1.7 +/- 0.3 nm) prepared by a liquid-phase reduction method were loaded on a solid solution of GaN and ZnO without forming aggregates, achieving improved activity for visible-light-driven overall water splitting when the nanoparticles are coated with a chromia shell.

Cr2O3 and Cr2O3–SiO2-TiO2 coatings are deposited on P265GH steel using atmospheric plasma spraying. The influence of silicon oxide—titanium oxide addition the surface morphology coatings, phase composition tribological properties under non-lubricated sliding conditions investigated. SiO2-TiO2 led to formation a more uniform reduce roughness coatings. X-ray diffraction (XRD) studies indicated th...

Powder mixtures of Alumina and Chromia, blended in different proportions (1, 3, 5 10%wt) by attrition milling, were fired either pressureless sintering air hot pressing under vacuum. The resulting materials, characterized X-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy, SEM, hardness fracture toughness showed that all the compositions form complete solid solution which maintain same crystal structures co...

The effects of residual water on the phase formation, composition, and microstructure evolution of magnetron sputter deposited crystalline alumina thin films have been investigated. To mimic different vacuum conditions, depositions have been carried out with varying partial pressures of H2O. Films have been grown both with and without chromia nucleation layers. It is shown that films deposited ...

Graphene/2D-chromia van der Waals heterostructure for various technological applications.

Conventional density functional theory DFT fails for materials with strongly correlated electrons, such as late transition metal oxides. Large errors in the intra-atomic Coulomb and exchange interactions are the source of this failure. The DFT+U method has provided a means, through empirical parameters, to correct these errors. Here, we present a systematic ab initio approach in evaluating the ...