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 …

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

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

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

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 …

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 …

This review aims to summarize more than 100 years of research on spinel compounds,
mainly focusing on the progress in understanding their magnetic, electronic, and polar …

The investigations of the crystal and magnetic structure by powder neutron diffractometry as
well as the magnetic properties by vibration sample magnetometry for the BaFe 12− x Al x O …

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

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