Thermochromic energy efficient windows: Fundamentals, recent advances, and perspectives

Z Zhang, L Zhang, Y Zhou, Y Cui, Z Chen, Y Liu… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Thermochromic energy efficient windows represent an important protocol technology for
advanced architectural windows with energy-saving capabilities through the intelligent …

Recent progress on phase engineering of nanomaterials

Q Yun, Y Ge, Z Shi, J Liu, X Wang, A Zhang… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
As a key structural parameter, phase depicts the arrangement of atoms in materials.
Normally, a nanomaterial exists in its thermodynamically stable crystal phase. With the …

Orbital occupancy and spin polarization: from mechanistic study to rational design of transition metal-based electrocatalysts toward energy applications

VH Do, JM Lee - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
Over the past few decades, development of electrocatalysts for energy applications has
extensively transitioned from trial-and-error methodologies to more rational and directed …

Thermochromic VO2 for energy-efficient smart windows

Y Cui, Y Ke, C Liu, Z Chen, N Wang, L Zhang, Y Zhou… - Joule, 2018 - cell.com
Rapid development of the thermochromic glazing technique promises next-generation
architectural windows with energy-saving characteristics by intelligently regulating indoor …

Metal oxide nanoparticles and their applications in nanotechnology

MS Chavali, MP Nikolova - SN applied sciences, 2019 - Springer
Considering metal oxide nanoparticles as important technological materials, authors provide
a comprehensive review of researches on metal oxide nanoparticles, their synthetic …

Recent progress in the phase-transition mechanism and modulation of vanadium dioxide materials

Z Shao, X Cao, H Luo, P ** - NPG Asia Materials, 2018 - nature.com
Metal-to-insulator transition (MIT) behaviors accompanied by a rapid reversible phase
transition in vanadium dioxide (VO2) have gained substantial attention for investigations into …

Super-elastic ferroelectric single-crystal membrane with continuous electric dipole rotation

G Dong, S Li, M Yao, Z Zhou, YQ Zhang, X Han, Z Luo… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Ferroelectrics are usually inflexible oxides that undergo brittle deformation. We synthesized
freestanding single-crystalline ferroelectric barium titanate (BaTiO3) membranes with a …

Recent progresses on physics and applications of vanadium dioxide

K Liu, S Lee, S Yang, O Delaire, J Wu - Materials Today, 2018 - Elsevier
As a strongly correlated electron material, vanadium dioxide (VO 2) has been a focus of
research since its discovery in 1959, owing to its well-known metal–insulator transition …

Light-driven bimorph soft actuators: design, fabrication, and properties

Y Chen, J Yang, X Zhang, Y Feng, H Zeng, L Wang… - Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Soft robots that can move like living organisms and adapt to their surroundings are currently
in the limelight from fundamental studies to technological applications, due to their advances …

Harnessing the Metal–Insulator Transition of VO2 in Neuromorphic Computing

P Schofield, A Bradicich, RM Gurrola… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Future‐generation neuromorphic computing seeks to overcome the limitations of von
Neumann architectures by colocating logic and memory functions, thereby emulating the …