As one important subclass of piezoelectric materials, pyroelectric materials have caused
increasing attention owing to the unique pyroelectric effect induced by spontaneous …

Heat energy is among the most wasted energy in the environment which is available in an
ample quantity. So, developing new technology for harvesting and detecting wasted thermal …

Pyroelectric materials are important functional materials that can generate an electrical
response upon a temperature change. Among the many different types of pyroelectric …

A thermal gradient-induced circular motion of particles placed on ferroelectric nematic liquid
crystal sessile drops is demonstrated and explained. Unlike hurricanes and tornadoes that …

Abstract Layered Double Hydroxides (LDHs) have outstanding properties, including
straightforward fabrication and connection of high-density arrays of aligned nanostructures …

The boundary conditions, customarily used in the Landau-type approach to ferroelectric thin
films and nanostructures, have to be modified to take into account that a surface of a …

As an important branch of functional materials, ferroic materials, especially ferroelectrics
have attracted increasing attention in decades. Because of the rising demand in industry …

Pyroelectric materials have been widely used for a range of thermal-related applications
including thermal imaging/sensing, waste heat energy conversion, and electron emission. In …

We have studied the temperature dependence of the Raman spectra of ceramic bulk and
thin-film samples of polycrystalline Ba 1− x Sr x TiO 3 (x= 0, 0.1, 0.2, and 0.3) in the range …

The emerging demands for miniaturization of electronics has driven the research into
various nanomaterials. Lead-free Bi0. 5Na0. 5TiO3 (BNT) ferroelectric nanomaterials have …