A serial enrichment culture has been grown in an alkaline Fe(III)-citrate-containing medium from an initial inoculum from a soil layer beneath a chromium ore processing residue (COPR) disposal site where Cr(III) is accumulating from Cr(VI) containing leachate. This culture is dominated by two bacterial genera in the order Clostridiales, Tissierella, and an unnamed Clostridium XI subgroup. This ...

While much progress has been made using epitaxial growth of Fe/Cr/Fe structures to study magnetic exchange coupling, a number of anomalies have arisen in studies of this model system. Using scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy to investigate Cr growth on Fe(001), we have identified a potential structural cause of these anomalies. We show that Cr growth under layer-by-layer conditions ...

Hydrogen generation technologies have become increasingly important due to recent attention focusing on fuel cells. The water-gas shift reaction, which is performed in two stages as highand low-temperature shift, is of central significance to produce highpurity hydrogen. Generally, the high-temperature water-gas shift reaction (HTS) is conducted on Fe-Cr catalysts. However, these catalytic syst...

Chromium alloys are being considered for next-generation concentrated solar power applications operating > 800 °C. Cr offers advantages in melting point, cost, and oxidation resistance. However, improvements mechanical performance needed. Here, Cr-based body-centred-cubic (bcc) of the type Cr(Fe)-NiAl investigated, leading to ‘bcc-superalloys’ comprising a bcc-Cr(Fe) matrix (β) strengthened by ...

Based on the full-potential linearized augmented plane-wave method combined with the generalized gradient approximation, we determine the ground-state spin configurations and the total energies of 3d transitionmetal monolayer and bilayer films on Fe~001! within the c(232) unit cell. We find by energy analysis that V, Cr, and Mn layers prefer the layered antiferromagnetic coupling, and Fe, Co, a...

Surface and interface properties of Fe-Cr, Fe-Al, and Fe-Cr-Al are studied using Exact Muffin-Tin Orbitals and Monte Carlo methods and with x-ray photoelectron and Auger electron techniques. Surface composition is investigated as a function of oxidation (heating) time. Hard x ray photoelectron spectroscopy (HAXPES) is used to scan non destructively the compositions below the surface. It is foun...