High-performance lead-free bulk ceramics for electrical energy storage applications: design strategies and challenges

Z Yang, H Du, L **, D Poelman - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Compared with fuel cells and electrochemical capacitors, dielectric capacitors are regarded
as promising devices to store electrical energy for pulsed power systems due to their fast …

Piezoelectric materials and techniques for environmental pollution remediation

J Li, X Liu, G Zhao, Z Liu, Y Cai, S Wang, C Shen… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
With the rapid development of industrialization and agriculture, a series of critical imminent
environmental problems and water pollution have caught wide attention from the public and …

Harvesting the Vibration Energy of BiFeO3 Nanosheets for Hydrogen Evolution

H You, Z Wu, L Zhang, Y Ying, Y Liu, L Fei… - Angewandte …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, mechanical vibration is used for hydrogen generation and decomposition of
dye molecules, with the help of BiFeO3 (BFO) square nanosheets. A high hydrogen …

Thin-film ferroelectric materials and their applications

LW Martin, AM Rappe - Nature Reviews Materials, 2016 - nature.com
Ferroelectric materials, because of their robust spontaneous electrical polarization, are
widely used in various applications. Recent advances in modelling, synthesis and …

Research progress of perovskite materials in photocatalysis-and photovoltaics-related energy conversion and environmental treatment

W Wang, MO Tade, Z Shao - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Meeting the growing global energy demand is one of the important challenges of the 21st
century. Currently over 80% of the world's energy requirements are supplied by the …

Organohalide lead perovskites for photovoltaic applications

P Gao, M Grätzel, MK Nazeeruddin - Energy & Environmental Science, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
There are only few semiconducting materials that have been sha** the progress of third
generation photovoltaic cells as much as perovskites. Although they are deceivingly simple …

Perovskite oxides for visible-light-absorbing ferroelectric and photovoltaic materials

I Grinberg, DV West, M Torres, G Gou, DM Stein, L Wu… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Ferroelectrics have recently attracted attention as a candidate class of materials for use in
photovoltaic devices, and for the coupling of light absorption with other functional …

Shift current bulk photovoltaic effect in polar materials—hybrid and oxide perovskites and beyond

LZ Tan, F Zheng, SM Young, F Wang, S Liu… - Npj Computational …, 2016 - nature.com
The bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE) refers to the generation of a steady photocurrent and
above-bandgap photovoltage in a single-phase homogeneous material lacking inversion …

Arising applications of ferroelectric materials in photovoltaic devices

Y Yuan, Z **ao, B Yang, J Huang - Journal of Materials chemistry A, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The ferroelectric-photovoltaic (FE-PV) device, in which a homogeneous ferroelectric material
is used as a light absorbing layer, has been investigated during the past several decades …

Above-bandgap voltages from ferroelectric photovoltaic devices

SY Yang, J Seidel, SJ Byrnes, P Shafer… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
In conventional solid-state photovoltaics, electron–hole pairs are created by light absorption
in a semiconductor and separated by the electric field spaning a micrometre-thick depletion …