We present a critical review that encompasses the fundamentals and state-of-the-art
knowledge of barium titanate-based piezoelectrics. First, the essential crystallography …

Piezoelectric materials are known to mankind for more than a century, with numerous
advancements made in both scientific understandings and practical applications. In the last …

Piezoelectric materials and devices have drawn extensive attention for energy harvesting
due to their excellent electromechanical conversion properties. With increasing concerns …

Printed electronics (PE) is an emerging technology that uses functional inks to print electrical
components and circuits on variety of substrates. This technology has opened up new …

Ferroelectric perovskites such as BaTiO 3 and Pb (Zr, Ti) O 3 are well-suited for a variety of
applications including piezoelectric transducers and actuators, multilayer ceramic …

Study of flexible nanodielectric materials (FNDMs) with high permittivity is one of the most
active academic research areas in advanced functional materials. FNDMs with excellent …

Due to the nature of domains, ferroics, including ferromagnetic, ferroelectric, and ferroelastic
materials, exhibit hysteresis phenomena with respect to external driving fields (magnetic …

Lead-free piezoceramics aiming at replacing the market-dominant lead-based ones have
been extensively searched for more than a decade worldwide. Some noteworthy outcomes …

The photocatalytic activity of materials for water splitting is limited by the recombination of
photogenerated electron–hole pairs as well as the back-reaction of intermediate species …

BaTiO3 is used as a target catalyst to probe the influence of ferroelectricity on the
decolorization of a typical dye molecule Rhodamine B under simulated solar light. We …