High-entropy ceramics: Review of principles, production and applications

S Akrami, P Edalati, M Fuji, K Edalati - Materials Science and Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
High-entropy ceramics with five or more cations have recently attracted significant attention
due to their superior properties for various structural and functional applications. Although …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Two-dimensional ferroelectricity in a single-element bismuth monolayer

J Gou, H Bai, X Zhang, YL Huang, S Duan, A Ariando… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Ferroelectric materials are fascinating for their non-volatile switchable electric polarizations
induced by the spontaneous inversion-symmetry breaking. However, in all of the …

Additive manufacturing of piezoelectric materials

C Chen, X Wang, Y Wang, D Yang… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Additive manufacturing technology has attracted unprecedented attention in industry
because it provides infinite possibilities for rapid prototyping and enormous potential and …

Review on strategies toward efficient piezocatalysis of BaTiO3 nanomaterials for wastewater treatment through harvesting vibration energy

Q Zhang, Y Jia, W Wu, C Pei, G Zhu, Z Wu, L Zhang… - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
An emerging, environmentally friendly and sustainable method of decomposition
wastewater urgently needs to be proposed due to the environmental crisis and the …

[HTML][HTML] Superior ferroelectricity and nonlinear optical response in a hybrid germanium iodide hexagonal perovskite

K Ding, H Ye, C Su, YA Xiong, G Du, YM You… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abundant chemical diversity and structural tunability make organic–inorganic hybrid
perovskites (OIHPs) a rich ore for ferroelectrics. However, compared with their inorganic …

Topological phases in polar oxide nanostructures

J Junquera, Y Nahas, S Prokhorenko, L Bellaiche… - Reviews of Modern …, 2023 - APS
The past decade has witnessed dramatic progress related to various aspects of emergent
topological polar textures in oxide nanostructures displaying vortices, skyrmions, merons …

Intercorrelated In-Plane and Out-of-Plane Ferroelectricity in Ultrathin Two-Dimensional Layered Semiconductor In2Se3

C Cui, WJ Hu, X Yan, C Addiego, W Gao, Y Wang… - Nano …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Enriching the functionality of ferroelectric materials with visible-light sensitivity and multiaxial
switching capability would open up new opportunities for their applications in advanced …

Two‐dimensional In2Se3: A rising advanced material for ferroelectric data storage

YT Huang, NK Chen, ZZ Li, XP Wang, HB Sun… - InfoMat, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Ferroelectric memory is a promising candidate for next‐generation nonvolatile memory
owing to its outstanding performance such as low power consumption, fast speed, and high …

Control of polarization in bulk ferroelectrics by mechanical dislocation imprint

M Höfling, X Zhou, LM Riemer, E Bruder, B Liu, L Zhou… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Defects are essential to engineering the properties of functional materials ranging from
semiconductors and superconductors to ferroics. Whereas point defects have been widely …