Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) are widely recognized as efficient energy sources that have
the potential to shape the future of energy development. Among various types of SOFCs, the …

Negative thermal expansion (NTE), referring to the lattice contraction upon heating, has
been an attractive topic of solid-state chemistry and functional materials. The response of a …

Mid-far infrared nonlinear optical (NLO) materials are gaining both scientific and
technological interest in wide applications. The practical properties of one crystal are …

By virtue of the unique advantages of compensating and controlling thermal expansion,
negative thermal expansion (NTE) materials have attracted great attention and have gained …

Negative thermal expansion (NTE) is a counterintuitive physical phenomenon that the unit
cell volume of material usually contracts instead of expands upon heating. With two …

Materials with negative Poisson's ratio attract considerable attention due to their underlying
intriguing physical properties and numerous promising applications, particularly in stringent …

Although auxetic metamaterials exhibit unique and unusual mechanical properties, such as
a negative Poisson's ratio, their mechanics remains poorly understood. In this study, we …

Recent research on piezoelectric materials is predominantly devoted to enhancing the
piezoelectric coefficient, but overlooks its sign, largely because almost all of them exhibit …

Negative thermal expansion (NTE) alloys possess great practical merit as thermal offsets for
positive thermal expansion due to its metallic properties. However, achieving a large NTE …

ABX3 perovskites, as the largest family of crystalline materials, have attracted tremendous
research interest worldwide due to their versatile multifunctionalities and the intriguing …