The past decade has witnessed dramatic progress related to various aspects of emergent
topological polar textures in oxide nanostructures displaying vortices, skyrmions, merons …

The family of 2D and layered materials has been expanding rapidly for more than a decade.
Within this large family of hundreds of materials, black phosphorus and its isoelectronic …

Net atomic charges (NACs) are widely used in all chemical sciences to concisely summarize
key information about the partitioning of electrons among atoms in materials. The objective …

Ferroelectricity usually fades away as materials are thinned down below a critical value. We
reveal that the unique ionic-potential anharmonicity can induce spontaneous in-plane …

Vacancy-ordered double perovskites of the general formula A 2 BX 6 are a family of
perovskite derivatives composed of a face-centered lattice of nearly isolated [BX 6] units with …

This study is the first to demonstrate that ferroelectric R3c LiNbO3‐type ZnSnO3 nanowires
(NWs), through the piezocatalysis and piezophototronic process, demonstrate a highly …

Recent realizations of ultrathin freestanding perovskite oxides offer a unique platform to
probe novel properties in two-dimensional oxides. Here, we observe a giant flexoelectric …

We report the low-frequency resonant Raman spectrum of methylammonium lead-iodide, a
prototypical perovskite for solar cells applications, on mesoporous Al2O3. The measured …

Halide perovskites have recently been shown to exhibit excellent carrier transport
properties. Density functional calculations are performed to study the electronic structure …

Enhancement of polarization and related properties in heteroepitaxially constrained thin
films of the ferroelectromagnet, BiFeO3, is reported. Structure analysis indicates that the …