High-entropy ceramics: Review of principles, production and applications

S Akrami, P Edalati, M Fuji, K Edalati - Materials Science and Engineering …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
High-entropy ceramics with five or more cations have recently attracted significant attention
due to their superior properties for various structural and functional applications. Although …

Topological phases in polar oxide nanostructures

J Junquera, Y Nahas, S Prokhorenko, L Bellaiche… - Reviews of Modern …, 2023‏ - APS
The past decade has witnessed dramatic progress related to various aspects of emergent
topological polar textures in oxide nanostructures displaying vortices, skyrmions, merons …

Two-dimensional ferroelectricity in a single-element bismuth monolayer

J Gou, H Bai, X Zhang, YL Huang, S Duan, A Ariando… - Nature, 2023‏ - nature.com
Ferroelectric materials are fascinating for their non-volatile switchable electric polarizations
induced by the spontaneous inversion-symmetry breaking. However, in all of the …

Strain engineering: a boosting strategy for photocatalysis

Y Miao, Y Zhao, S Zhang, R Shi, T Zhang - Advanced Materials, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Whilst the photocatalytic technique is considered to be one of the most significant routes to
address the energy crisis and global environmental challenges, the solar‐to‐chemical …

Review on strategies toward efficient piezocatalysis of BaTiO3 nanomaterials for wastewater treatment through harvesting vibration energy

Q Zhang, Y Jia, W Wu, C Pei, G Zhu, Z Wu, L Zhang… - Nano Energy, 2023‏ - Elsevier
An emerging, environmentally friendly and sustainable method of decomposition
wastewater urgently needs to be proposed due to the environmental crisis and the …

A 2D ferroelectric vortex pattern in twisted BaTiO3 freestanding layers

G Sánchez-Santolino, V Rouco, S Puebla, H Aramberri… - Nature, 2024‏ - nature.com
The wealth of complex polar topologies,,,,,,,,–recently found in nanoscale ferroelectrics
results from a delicate balance between the intrinsic tendency of the materials to develop a …

Insights into strain engineering: from ferroelectrics to related functional materials and beyond

T Li, S Deng, H Liu, J Chen - Chemical Reviews, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
Ferroelectrics have become indispensable components in various application fields,
including information processing, energy harvesting, and electromechanical conversion …

Designing oxide catalysts for oxygen electrocatalysis: insights from mechanism to application

N Han, W Zhang, W Guo, H Pan, B Jiang, L **ng… - Nano-Micro Letters, 2023‏ - Springer
The electrochemical oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER)
are fundamental processes in a range of energy conversion devices such as fuel cells and …