Porous ferroelectric materials for energy technologies: current status and future perspectives

M Yan, Z **ao, J Ye, X Yuan, Z Li, C Bowen… - Energy & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Ferroelectric materials have attracted significant interest due to their wide potential in energy
harvesting, sensing, storage, and catalytic applications. For monolithic and dense …

[HTML][HTML] Low-grade waste heat recovery scenarios: Pyroelectric, thermomagnetic, and thermogalvanic thermal energy harvesting

S Hur, S Kim, HS Kim, A Kumar, C Kwon, J Shin… - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Identifying reliable and sustainable sources of electricity is a significant challenge of the
present time. However, most energy-generation mechanisms produce unavoidable low …

Advances in lead-free pyroelectric materials: a comprehensive review

H He, X Lu, E Hanc, C Chen, H Zhang… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Pyroelectric materials are important functional materials that can generate an electrical
response upon a temperature change. Among the many different types of pyroelectric …

Enhanced pyroelectric and piezoelectric properties of PZT with aligned porosity for energy harvesting applications

Y Zhang, M **e, J Roscow, Y Bao, K Zhou… - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
This paper demonstrates the significant benefits of exploiting highly aligned porosity in
piezoelectric and pyroelectric materials for improved energy harvesting performance …

Factors affecting the piezoelectric performance of ceramic-polymer composites: A comprehensive review

P Eltouby, I Shyha, C Li, J Khaliq - Ceramics International, 2021 - Elsevier
Over the past few decades, piezoelectric materials have emerged as one of the powerful
platforms for energy harvesting applications. Nowadays, they offer sustainable solutions for …

Enhanced self-powered UV photoresponse of ferroelectric BaTiO3 materials by pyroelectric effect

N Ma, Y Yang - Nano Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
Ferroelectric material BaTiO 3 (BTO) with intrinsic spontaneous polarization demonstrates
excellent pyroelectric effect that output current/voltage signals can be observed even by …

Modelling and fabrication of porous sandwich layer barium titanate with improved piezoelectric energy harvesting figures of merit

JI Roscow, RWC Lewis, J Taylor, CR Bowen - Acta Materialia, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper demonstrates that porous 'sandwich'structures can provide an effective route for
the design and optimisation of piezoelectric materials for energy harvesting applications …

[書籍][B] Modern piezoelectric energy-harvesting materials

CR Bowen, VY Topolov, HA Kim - 2016 - Springer
An increasing interest in autonomous devices and electrical accumulators promoted by
industrial and domestic applications has raised the issue of powering these systems. In the …

Ferroelectric oxide surface chemistry: water splitting via pyroelectricity

A Kakekhani, S Ismail-Beigi - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
There is widespread interest in finding sustainable replacements for fossil fuels, and hence
hydrogen production via water splitting has received much attention. However, finding …

Scavenging energy sources using ferroelectric materials

H Li, CR Bowen, Y Yang - Advanced Functional Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Ferroelectric materials have attracted interest for over a hundred years as a result of their
spontaneous polarization and a polarization orientation that can be reversed by the …