High-performance piezoceramics are some of the most important and widely used materials,
and as such research into this topic is at the forefront of high-technology advanced …

Environment‐friendly lead‐free piezoelectric ceramics have been studied extensively in the
past decade with great progress particularly in systems based on a niobate perovskite …

Piezoelectric materials convert mechanical energy into electric energy, and vice versa. They
have been applied in many critical fields, such as motor vehicles, medical devices, the …

The discovery of piezoelectricity in natural bone has attracted extensive research in
emulating biological electricity for various tissue regeneration. Here, we carried out …

Potassium–sodium niobate lead-free piezoceramics have received considerable attention
for replacing lead-based ones in some practical applications. This review covers the …

Alkaline volatilization during sintering in (K, Na) NbO 3 (KNN)‐based lead‐free
piezoceramics is a problem that causes non‐stoichiometry and hence affects the phase …

For more than five decades, alkali niobate-based materials (K x Na1− x NbO3) have been
one of the most promising lead-free piezoelectric materials researched to be used in …

Despite outstanding electromechanical properties are achieved in KNN-based ceramics,
unstable reproducibility of piezoelectric properties remains a challenge to industrial …

Pyroelectric materials are widely investigated for thermal devices. As an efficient standard
for evaluation, the pyroelectric figures of merit (FoM) for specific thermal-related applications …

Abstract (1− x)(K 0.42 Na 0.58)(Nb 0.96 Sb 0.04) O 3–x (Bi 0.5 Na 0.5) 0.90 Mg 0.10 ZrO 3
[(1− x) KNNS–x BNMZ] lead-free ceramics have been prepared by the normal sintering, and …