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Philip Morris USA Postgraduate Research Program, VA Philip Morris USA Research Center, 4201 Commerce Road, Richmond, VA 23234, USA Current address Colorado School of Mines, Department of Chemical Engineering, Golden, CO 80401... 

Previous studies in conventional reactor setups at Philip Morris USA have demonstrated the significant effectiveness of nanoparticle iron oxide on the oxidation of carbon monoxide when compared to the conventional, micron-sized iron oxide, " as well as its effect on the combustion and pyrolysis of biomass and biomass model compounds.These effects are derived from a higher reactivity of nanoparticles that are attributed to a higher BET surface area as well as the coordination of unsaturated sites on the surfaces. The chemical and electronic properties of nanoparticle iron oxide could also contribute to its higher reactivity. In this work, we present the possibility of using nanoparticle iron oxide as a catalyst for the decomposition of phenolic compounds. 

The authors would like to thank Dr. Firooz Rasouli and Dr. Hoongsun Im for technical discussions and Felecia Logan for experimental work. Special thanks to Dr. Weizhong Zhu for BET surface area measurements. Dr. Weizhong Zhu and Dr. Hoongsun Im were participants in the Philip Morris USA Postgraduate Research... 

W. Geoffrey Chan, Philip Morris USA Research Center, 4201 Commerce Road, Richmond, VA 23234... 

The nicotine content in tobacco from cigarettes sold worldwide shows a wide variation (lARC 2004). Counts and coauthors reported on the nicotine content in the tobacco tiller of 48 Philip Morris USA and Phihp Morris International commercial filtered cigarettes from numerous international market regions (Counts et al. 2005). The majority contained blends of bright flue-cured (Virginia), hurley air-cured, and sun-cured oriental tobaccos, with inclusions of expanded tobaccos, processed tobacco, or processed stems. Four cigarettes contained primarily bright tobaccos. Nine brands contained carbon (also known as charcoal ) in their filter construction. 

The authors thank the U.S. Department of Energy (Grant DE-FG05-88-ER13883) and Philip Morris USA Research Center for financial assistance. The authors also thank Dr. R. G. Fulcher, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa Research Station, Ottawa, Canada, for the kind gift of Zea mays kernels. 

To whom correspondence should be addressed. Present address Philip Morris USA R D, P.O. Box 26583, Richmond, VA 23261, USA. t Present address Sweetwater Guest Ranch. Gypsum, CO 81637, USA. 

The author received a research grant from Chrysalis Technologies, a division of Philip Morris USA, for the development of the CAG technology. 

S. N. Ganeriwala and H. A. Hartung Research Center, Philip Morris, USA, Richmond, VA 23261—6583... 

Research Center, Philip Morris USA, Richmond, Virginia, USA. 

Campus, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (Raleigh, North Carolina). NCSU will make the TGI data available to authorized academic researchers. The Tobacco Genome Initiative is supported by Philip Morris USA, Inc. (22A13, 22A21, 22A22). 

This work was supported by the NIH National Center for Research Resources, RR-08119, HG-002655, EB-000682, and EB-00981. Zygmunt Gryczynski thanks Philip Morris USA, Inc. for financial support. 

The research described in this chapter was supported by Phihp Morris USA, Inc., and Philip Morris International. 

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