High-performance lead-free bulk ceramics for electrical energy storage applications: design strategies and challenges

Z Yang, H Du, L **, D Poelman - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Compared with fuel cells and electrochemical capacitors, dielectric capacitors are regarded
as promising devices to store electrical energy for pulsed power systems due to their fast …

Phase structure and properties of sodium bismuth titanate lead-free piezoelectric ceramics

X Zhou, G Xue, H Luo, CR Bowen, D Zhang - Progress in Materials Science, 2021 - Elsevier
The lead-free sodium bismuth titanate (BNT) system has been extensively investigated in
the past decade due to its multi-functional electro-active properties. Here, we present a …

Heterostrain-enabled ultrahigh electrostrain in lead-free piezoelectric

W Feng, B Luo, S Bian, E Tian, Z Zhang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Piezoelectric materials provide high strain and large driving forces in actuators and can
transform electrical energy into mechanical energy. Although they were discovered over 100 …

[HTML][HTML] Progress and perspective of high strain NBT-based lead-free piezoceramics and multilayer actuators

P Fan, K Liu, W Ma, H Tan, Q Zhang, L Zhang… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
abstract In this review, the evolution of high strain Na 0.5 Bi 0.5 TiO 3-based lead-free
piezoceramics and their multilayer actuators has been explored. First, in terms of Na 0.5 Bi …

High-performance piezoelectric crystals, ceramics, and films

S Trolier-McKinstry, S Zhang, AJ Bell… - Annual Review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Piezoelectric materials convert between electrical and mechanical energies such that an
applied stress induces a polarization and an applied electric field induces a strain. This …

Local structural disorder and its influence on the average global structure and polar properties in NaBiTiO

BN Rao, R Datta, SS Chandrashekaran, DK Mishra… - Physical Review B …, 2013 - APS
Na 0.5 Bi 0.5 TiO 3 (NBT) and its derivatives have prompted a great surge in interest owing
to their potential as lead-free piezoelectrics. In spite of five decades since its discovery, there …

Relaxor-ferroelectric transitions: Sodium bismuth titanate derivatives

AR Paterson, H Nagata, X Tan, JE Daniels… - MRS …, 2018 - cambridge.org
Sodium bismuth titanate (NBT) and its solid solutions with other ABO3 perovskites are of
great interest for lead-free ferroelectric and piezoelectric applications. In this article, we …

Electric field-induced transformations in bismuth sodium titanate-based materials

G Viola, Y Tian, C Yu, Y Tan, V Koval, X Wei… - Progress in Materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
Electric field-induced transformations occur in a myriad of systems with a variegated
phenomenology and have attracted widespread scientific interest due to their importance in …

Temperature stability of perovskite-structured lead-free piezoceramics: Evaluation methods, improvement strategies, and future perspectives

X Lv, X Wang, Y Ma, X Zhang, J Wu - Materials Science and Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
Due to ever-increasing environmental concerns, lead-free piezoceramics have been studied
for more than half a century with the purpose of replacing toxic lead-based counterparts. A …

Bismuth sodium titanate based materials for piezoelectric actuators

K Reichmann, A Feteira, M Li - Materials, 2015 - mdpi.com
The ban of lead in many electronic products and the expectation that, sooner or later, this
ban will include the currently exempt piezoelectric ceramics based on Lead-Zirconate …