Defect engineering of oxide perovskites for catalysis and energy storage: synthesis of chemistry and materials science

H Arandiyan, SS Mofarah, CC Sorrell… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Oxide perovskites have emerged as an important class of materials with important
applications in many technological areas, particularly thermocatalysis, electrocatalysis …

Piezoelectricity, pyroelectricity, and ferroelectricity in biomaterials and biomedical applications

X Yuan, J Shi, Y Kang, J Dong, Z Pei, X Ji - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Piezoelectric, pyroelectric, and ferroelectric materials are considered unique biomedical
materials due to their dielectric crystals and asymmetric centers that allow them to directly …

Exploiting Photoelectric Activities and Piezoelectric Properties of NaNbO3 Semiconductors for Point-of-Care Immunoassay

Z Yu, H Gong, J Xu, Y Li, Y Zeng, X Liu… - Analytical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Point-of-care testing (POCT) technology has made major breakthroughs in community
medicine and physician office situations, in tandem with the more ubiquitous and intensive …

Achieving giant electrostrain of above 1% in (Bi,Na)TiO3-based lead-free piezoelectrics via introducing oxygen-defect composition

H Luo, H Liu, H Huang, Y Song, MG Tucker, Z Sun… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Piezoelectric ceramics have been extensively used in actuators, where the magnitude of
electrostrain is key indicator for large-stroke actuation applications. Here, we propose an …

Evolution from lead‐based to lead‐free piezoelectrics: engineering of lattices, domains, boundaries, and defects leading to giant response

M Waqar, H Wu, J Chen, K Yao, J Wang - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Induced giant piezoelectricity in centrosymmetric oxides

DS Park, M Hadad, LM Riemer, R Ignatans, D Spirito… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Piezoelectrics are materials that linearly deform in response to an applied electric field. As a
fundamental prerequisite, piezoelectric materials must have a noncentrosymmetric crystal …

Bond engineering of molecular ferroelectrics renders soft and high-performance piezoelectric energy harvesting materials

Y Hu, K Parida, H Zhang, X Wang, Y Li, X Zhou… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Piezoelectric materials convert mechanical stress to electrical energy and thus are widely
used in energy harvesting and wearable devices. However, in the piezoelectric family, there …

Thin‐film ferroelectrics

A Fernandez, M Acharya, HG Lee, J Schimpf… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last 30 years, the study of ferroelectric oxides has been revolutionized by the
implementation of epitaxial‐thin‐film‐based studies, which have driven many advances in …

Ultrahigh electromechanical response from competing ferroic orders

B Lin, KP Ong, T Yang, Q Zeng, HK Hui, Z Ye, C Sim… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Materials with electromechanical coupling are essential for transducers and acoustic
devices as reversible converters between mechanical and electrical energy,,,,–. High …

Piezoelectric MEMS—Evolution from sensing technology to diversified applications in the 5G/Internet of Things (IoT) era

X Le, Q Shi, P Vachon, EJ Ng… - Journal of Micromechanics …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The rapid development of the fifth-generation mobile networks (5G) and Internet of Things
(IoT) is inseparable from a large number of miniature, low-cost, and low-power sensors and …