Insights into strain engineering: from ferroelectrics to related functional materials and beyond

T Li, S Deng, H Liu, J Chen - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Ferroelectrics have become indispensable components in various application fields,
including information processing, energy harvesting, and electromechanical conversion …

In situ transmission electron microscopy on energy‐related catalysis

S Hwang, X Chen, G Zhou, D Su - Advanced Energy Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Energy‐related catalytic reactions have been extensively investigated in past years in order
to efficiently utilize clean and environmentally benign energy sources. In these systems, the …

Visible-Light-Driven Highly Selective 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural Upgrading and H2 Generation via Atomically Dispersed Ni Sites on ZnIn2S4 Nanosheets

S Si, P Gong, X Bao, X Tan, Y Mao, H Zhang… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Solar-driven biomass upgrading coupled with H2 generation is promising for achieving
carbon neutrality. However, identification of the active sites for the simultaneous …

Robust memristors based on layered two-dimensional materials

M Wang, S Cai, C Pan, C Wang, X Lian, Y Zhuo… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Van der Waals heterostructures are formed by stacking layers of different two-dimensional
materials and offer the possibility to design new materials with atomic-level precision. By …

A new class of high-entropy perovskite oxides

S Jiang, T Hu, J Gild, N Zhou, J Nie, M Qin… - Scripta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
A new class of high-entropy perovskite oxides (ie, multiple-cation solid solutions with high
configurational entropies) has been synthesized. Six of the 13 compositions examined …

2D high‐entropy transition metal dichalcogenides for carbon dioxide electrocatalysis

J Cavin, A Ahmadiparidari, L Majidi… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
High‐entropy alloys combine multiple principal elements at a near equal fraction to form vast
compositional spaces to achieve outstanding functionalities that are absent in alloys with …

Polar meron lattice in strained oxide ferroelectrics

YJ Wang, YP Feng, YL Zhu, YL Tang, LX Yang… - Nature Materials, 2020 - nature.com
A topological meron features a non-coplanar structure, whose order parameters in the core
region are perpendicular to those near the perimeter. A meron is half of a skyrmion, and both …

ReciPro: free and open-source multipurpose crystallographic software integrating a crystal model database and viewer, diffraction and microscopy simulators, and …

Y Seto, M Ohtsuka - Applied Crystallography, 2022 - journals.iucr.org
ReciPro is a comprehensive multipurpose crystallographic program equipped with an
intuitive graphical user interface (GUI), and it is completely free and open source. This …

High‐Entropy Tungsten Bronze Ceramics for Large Capacitive Energy Storage with Near‐Zero Losses

J Duan, K Wei, Q Du, L Ma, H Qi… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In the field of dielectric energy storage, achieving the combination of high recoverable
energy density (Wrec) and high storage efficiency (η) remains a major challenge. Here, a …

Solution-grown BiI/BiI3 van der Waals heterostructures for sensitive X-ray detection

R Zhuang, S Cai, Z Mei, H Liang, N Zhao, H Mu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
X-ray detectors must be operated at minimal doses to reduce radiation health risks during X-
ray security examination or medical inspection, therefore requiring high sensitivity and low …