[HTML][HTML] Fundamentals, advances and perspectives of piezocatalysis: A marriage of solid-state physics and catalytic chemistry

N Meng, W Liu, R Jiang, Y Zhang, S Dunn, J Wu… - Progress in Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Piezocatalysis, an evolving catalytic technology built on the piezoelectric properties of
catalysts, breaks down the barrier between mechanical energy and chemical energy. The …

[HTML][HTML] A review:(Bi, Na) TiO3 (BNT)-based energy storage ceramics

W Zhu, ZY Shen, W Deng, K Li, W Luo, F Song… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Facing the increasingly serious energy and environmental problems, the research and
development of new energy storage technology and environment-friendly energy storage …

Design and printing of proprioceptive three-dimensional architected robotic metamaterials

H Cui, D Yao, R Hensleigh, H Lu, A Calderon, Z Xu… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Advances in additive manufacturing techniques have enabled the creation of stimuli-
responsive materials with designed three-dimensional (3D) architectures. Unlike biological …

Electrospun PVDF nanofibers for piezoelectric applications: A review of the influence of electrospinning parameters on the β phase and crystallinity enhancement

Z He, F Rault, M Lewandowski, E Mohsenzadeh… - Polymers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) is among the most attractive piezo-polymers due to its
excellent piezoelectricity, lightweight, flexibility, high thermal stability, and chemical …

An emerging era: conformable ultrasound electronics

L Zhang, W Du, JH Kim, CC Yu… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Conformable electronics are regarded as the next generation of personal healthcare
monitoring and remote diagnosis devices. In recent years, piezoelectric‐based conformable …

Conformable ultrasound breast patch for deep tissue scanning and imaging

W Du, L Zhang, E Suh, D Lin, C Marcus, L Ozkan… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however,
fundamental challenges limit its integration with wearable technologies, namely, imaging …

Emerging new phase boundary in potassium sodium-niobate based ceramics

X Lv, J Zhu, D ** eco-friendly high-performance piezoceramics without lead has become one of
the most advanced frontiers in interdisciplinary research. Although potassium sodium …

Nano-domains in lead-free piezoceramics: a review

X Lv, X Zhang, J Wu - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Reducing or even prohibiting the use of toxic lead in electronic devices has become one of
the most cutting-edge topics in various disciplines. The recently proposed phase boundary …

The mechanism for the enhanced piezoelectricity in multi-elements doped (K,Na)NbO3 ceramics

X Gao, Z Cheng, Z Chen, Y Liu, X Meng… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract (K, Na) NbO3 based ceramics are considered to be one of the most promising lead-
free ferroelectrics replacing Pb (Zr, Ti) O3. Despite extensive studies over the last two …

Electro-thermal actuation in percolative ferroelectric polymer nanocomposites

Y Liu, Y Zhou, H Qin, T Yang, X Chen, L Li, Z Han… - Nature Materials, 2023 - nature.com
The interconversion between electrical and mechanical energies is pivotal to ferroelectrics
to enable their applications in transducers, actuators and sensors. Ferroelectric polymers …