Lead-free antiferroelectric niobates AgNbO 3 and NaNbO 3 for energy storage applications

D Yang, J Gao, L Shu, YX Liu, J Yu, Y Zhang… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Antiferroelectric materials are attractive for energy storage applications and are becoming
increasingly important for power electronics. Lead-free silver niobate (AgNbO3) and sodium …

Sintering of lead-free piezoelectric sodium potassium niobate ceramics

B Malič, J Koruza, J Hreščak, J Bernard, K Wang… - Materials, 2015 - mdpi.com
The potassium sodium niobate, K0. 5Na0. 5NbO3, solid solution (KNN) is considered as one
of the most promising, environment-friendly, lead-free candidates to replace highly efficient …

Well-defined double hysteresis loop in NaNbO3 antiferroelectrics

N Luo, L Ma, G Luo, C Xu, L Rao, Z Chen, Z Cen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Antiferroelectrics (AFEs) are promising candidates in energy-storage capacitors,
electrocaloric solid-cooling, and displacement transducers. As an actively studied lead-free …

Lead-Free NaNbO3 Nanowires for a High Output Piezoelectric Nanogenerator

JH Jung, M Lee, JI Hong, Y Ding, CY Chen, LJ Chou… - ACS …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Perovskite ferroelectric nanowires have rarely been used for the conversion of tiny
mechanical vibrations into electricity, in spite of their large piezoelectricity. Here we present …

Electric-field-induced antiferroelectric to ferroelectric phase transition in polycrystalline NaNbO3

MH Zhang, L Fulanović, S Egert, H Ding… - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Electric-field-induced phase transitions are the most important characteristics of
antiferroelectric materials. However, in several prototype antiferroelectrics, these transitions …

The antiferroelectric↔ ferroelectric phase transition in lead‐containing and lead‐free perovskite ceramics

X Tan, C Ma, J Frederick, S Beckman… - Journal of the …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
A comprehensive review on the latest development of the antiferroelectric↔ ferroelectric
phase transition is presented. The abrupt volume expansion and sudden development of …

The Effects of Crystal Structure and Electronic Structure on Photocatalytic H2 Evolution and CO2 Reduction over Two Phases of Perovskite-Structured NaNbO3

P Li, S Ouyang, G Xi, T Kako, J Ye - The Journal of Physical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Cubic and orthorhombic NaNbO3 were fabricated to study the effects of crystal structure and
electronic structure on the photocatalytic activities in detail. The samples were characterized …

Perovskite ferroelectric nanomaterials

N Nuraje, K Su - Nanoscale, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
In this review, the main concept of ferroelectricity of perovskite oxides and related materials
at nanometer scale and existing difficulties in the synthesis of those nanocrystals are …

Design of Lead-Free Antiferroelectric (1 – x)NaNbO3xSrSnO3 Compositions Guided by First-Principles Calculations

MH Zhang, N Hadaeghi, S Egert, H Ding… - Chemistry of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Antiferroelectric materials exhibit a unique electric-field-induced phase transition, which
enables their use in energy storage, electrocaloric cooling, and nonvolatile memory …

Competing antiferroelectric and ferroelectric interactions in : Neutron diffraction and theoretical studies

SK Mishra, N Choudhury, SL Chaplot, PSR Krishna… - Physical Review B …, 2007 - APS
Neutron diffraction studies using powder samples have been used to understand the
complex sequence of low temperature phase transitions of Na Nb O 3 in the temperature …