Recent progress in strain engineering on van der Waals 2D materials: Tunable electrical, electrochemical, magnetic, and optical properties

Y Qi, MA Sadi, D Hu, M Zheng, Z Wu… - Advanced …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Strain engineering is a promising way to tune the electrical, electrochemical, magnetic, and
optical properties of 2D materials, with the potential to achieve high‐performance 2D …

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 …

Mechanical tailoring of dislocations in ceramics at room temperature: A perspective

X Fang - Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
The potential of dislocations (line defects) in ceramics may have been greatly underrated
until most recently. Promising proofs‐of‐concept have been demonstrated for dislocation …

[PDF][PDF] Deform to perform: Dislocation-tuned properties of ceramics

X Fang, A Nakamura, J Rödel - ACerS Bulletin, 2023‏ - ceramics.org
From improved fracture toughness to ductile ceramics Ceramics have much lower fracture
toughness (about several MPa· m1/2) compared to metals (normally tens and hundreds of …

Conjugated polymers: where we come from, where we stand, and where we might go

K Müllen, U Scherf - Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Conjugated polymers (CPs) are electronic materials which always attract the joint attention
of synthetic chemistry, physics, and engineering. The present article deals with “classical” …

Anisotropic dislocation-domain wall interactions in ferroelectrics

F Zhuo, X Zhou, S Gao, M Höfling, F Dietrich… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Dislocations are usually expected to degrade electrical, thermal and optical functionality and
to tune mechanical properties of materials. Here, we demonstrate a general framework for …

Superconducting stripes induced by ferromagnetic proximity in an oxide heterostructure

X Hua, Z Zeng, F Meng, H Yao, Z Huang, X Long, Z Li… - Nature Physics, 2024‏ - nature.com
The intimate connection between magnetism and superconducting pairing plays a central
role in determining the occurrence of unconventional superconducting states. In particular …

Probing quantum materials with uniaxial stress

CW Hicks, F Jerzembeck, HML Noad… - Annual Review of …, 2024‏ - annualreviews.org
Over the past approximately 10 years, it has become routine to use piezoelectric actuators to
apply large anisotropic stresses to correlated electron materials. Elastic strains exceeding …

In situ construction of cyano-modified g-C3N4 nanolayer-coated SrTiO3 nanotubes by gas-solid reaction for efficient photocatalytic solar fuel production

W Zhang, Y Li, L Wang, F Zhang, Y Ai, G Shao… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
For the transformation of the global energy structure, photocatalyst-based artificial
photosynthesis for solar-to-chemical energy conversion has been regarded as promising …

Enhanced Photoconductivity at Dislocations in SrTiO3

M Kissel, L Porz, T Frömling, A Nakamura… - Advanced …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Dislocations are 1D crystallographic line defects and are usually seen as detrimental to the
functional properties of classic semiconductors. It is shown here that this not necessarily …