Replacing fossil fuels with energy sources and carriers that are sustainable, environmentally
benign, and affordable is amongst the most pressing challenges for future socio-economic …

Increasing energy demands and environment awareness have promoted extensive
research on the development of alternative energy conversion and storage technologies …

A ferroelectric crystal exhibits a stable and switchable electrical polarization that is
manifested in the form of cooperative atomic displacements. A ferromagnetic crystal exhibits …

Long viewed as a topic in classical physics, ferroelectricity can be described by a quantum
mechanical ab initio theory. Thin-film nanoscale device structures integrated onto Si chips …

Molten-salt synthesis (MSS) method becomes an excellent bottom-up synthesis technique of
nanomaterials with various chemical compositions and morphologies because of its …

Multiferroics, defined for those multifunctional materials in which two or more kinds of
fundamental ferroicities coexist, have become one of the hottest topics of condensed matter …

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

Multiferroics are those materials with more than one ferroic order, and magnetoelectricity
refers to the mutual coupling between magnetism (spins and/or magnetic field) and …

Spinels can serve as alternative low-cost bifunctional electrocatalysts for oxygen
reduction/evolution reactions (ORR/OER), which are the key barriers in various …

Negative thermal expansion (NTE) is an intriguing physical property of solids, which is a
consequence of a complex interplay among the lattice, phonons, and electrons …