Strain engineering: a boosting strategy for photocatalysis

Y Miao, Y Zhao, S Zhang, R Shi, T Zhang - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Whilst the photocatalytic technique is considered to be one of the most significant routes to
address the energy crisis and global environmental challenges, the solar‐to‐chemical …

Formation, detection, and function of oxygen vacancy in metal oxides for solar energy conversion

Z Wang, R Lin, Y Huo, H Li… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Oxygen vacancy (VO) is one of the most common defects in metal oxides (MOs), which
endow the MOs with many unique physiochemical properties. Even though VO engineering …

Tuning perovskite oxides by strain: Electronic structure, properties, and functions in (electro) catalysis and ferroelectricity

J Hwang, Z Feng, N Charles, XR Wang, D Lee… - Materials Today, 2019 - Elsevier
Complex oxides, such as ABO 3 perovskites, are an important class of functional materials
that exhibit a wide range of physical, chemical, and electrochemical properties, including …

Manipulating the Defect Structure (VO) of In2O3 Nanoparticles for Enhancement of Formaldehyde Detection

F Gu, C Li, D Han, Z Wang - ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2018 - ACS Publications
Because defects such as oxygen vacancies (VO) can affect the properties of nanomaterials,
investigating the defect structure–function relationship are attracting intense attention …

Chemical lattice strain in nonstoichiometric oxides: an overview

DS Tsvetkov, VV Sereda, DA Malyshkin… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Strong coupling between the chemical composition and crystal lattice dimensions resulting
in the contraction or expansion of a material upon change of its chemical composition is …

Strain Effect on Oxygen Evolution Reaction Activity of Epitaxial NdNiO3 Thin Films

L Wang, KA Stoerzinger, L Chang, X Yin… - … applied materials & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Epitaxial strain can cause both lattice distortion and oxygen nonstoichiometry, effects that
are strongly coupled at heterojunctions of complex nickelate oxides. Here we decouple …

Nature of the metal-insulator transition in few-unit-cell-thick LaNiO3 films

M Golalikhani, Q Lei, RU Chandrasena… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The nature of the metal-insulator transition in thin films and superlattices of LaNiO3 only a
few unit cells in thickness remains elusive despite tremendous effort. Quantum confinement …

Revealing the role of lattice distortions in the hydrogen-induced metal-insulator transition of SmNiO3

J Chen, W Mao, B Ge, J Wang, X Ke, V Wang… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The discovery of hydrogen-induced electronic phase transitions in strongly correlated
materials such as rare-earth nickelates has opened up a new paradigm in regulating …

Sulfur-resistant catalytic NO oxidation over surface-disproportionated CaMnO3 perovskites

X Xu, X Bai, Y Zhang, B **a, X Wang, S Ehlert… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2025 - Elsevier
A highly active CaMnO 3 perovskite catalyst (CMO-H) was fabricated for NO oxidation, a key
reaction in the control of NO x emissions from mobile and stationary sources, by tuning the …

Tunable resistivity exponents in the metallic phase of epitaxial nickelates

Q Guo, S Farokhipoor, C Magén, F Rivadulla… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
We report a detailed analysis of the electrical resistivity exponent of thin films of NdNiO3 as a
function of epitaxial strain. Thin films under low strain conditions show a linear dependence …