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Design Principles for Fluid Molecular Ferroelectrics

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A major challenge for soft condensed matter is predicting whether a fluid molecular material will form ferroelectric phase with nematic or smectic order. Through systematic synthesis, and by analogy to solid molecular ferroelectrics, it is shown that subtle hydrogen–fluorine (H/F) substitution(s) allows for tuneable syn‐parallel pairing motifs ...
Calum J. Gibb, Jordan Hobbs, William C. Ogle, Richard. J. Mandle   +3 more
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Electrically Tunable Heliconical Smectic Superstructure in Polar Fluids

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Strong dipole–dipole interactions give rise to an emergent polar smectic phase with spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking. This resulting polar heliconical smectic superstructure enables novel functionalities in polar fluids, such as color modulation driven by electric field strength and frequency, as well as second‐harmonic generation amplification ...
Hiroya Nishikawa, Dennis Kwaria, Atsuko Nihonyanagi, Koki Sano, Hiroyuki Yoshida, Fumito Araoka   +5 more
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Geometric isotope effect of deuteration in a hydrogen-bonded host–guest crystal

Nature Communications, 2018
Deuterating a hydrogen bond can change the bond’s geometry, a phenomenon known as the geometric isotope effect (GIE). Here, the authors find that a hydrogen-bonded host–guest crystal, imidazolium hydrogen terephthalate, exhibits significant GIE on its ...
Chao Shi, Xi Zhang, Chun-Hua Yu, Ye-Feng Yao, Wen Zhang   +4 more
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Photo‐ and Thermally‐Induced Huge Layer Decoupling in Twisted Bilayer WSe2

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A newly developed automated dark‐field tomography visualizes twist‐angle‐dependent structural relaxation and quantifies 3D structures in twisted bilayer WSe2. This approach reveals the evolution of local stacking configurations, thermally induced sub‐ångström interlayer decoupling, and light‐driven interlayer expansion on picosecond timescales ...
A. Nakamura, Y. Chiashi, T. Shimojima, Y. Tanaka, S. Akatsuka, M. Sakano, S. Masubuchi, T. Machida, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, K. Ishizaka   +10 more
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From the Discovery of the Giant Magnetocaloric Effect to the Development of High‐Power‐Density Systems

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
The article overviews past and current efforts on caloric materials and systems, highlighting the contributions of Ames National Laboratory to the field. Solid‐state caloric heat pumping is an innovative method that can be implemented in a wide range of cooling and heating applications.
Agata Czernuszewicz, Yaroslav Mudryk, Jun Cui, Lucas Griffith, Duane D. Johnson, Julie Slaughter   +5 more
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Deterministic 1D Domain Wall Motion with Nucleation-Free Nature in Sliding Ferroelectric Switching

Physical Review X
Inhomogeneous domain nucleation and stochastic motion of the domain wall (DW) during the polarization switching process in conventional ferroelectrics introduce a spectrum of intricate kinetic challenges for the reliable and precise manipulation of ...
Jiangang Chen, Changming Ke, Renji Bian, Er Pan, Peter Kun, Zefen Li, Biao Dong, Fan Yang, Qing Liu, Levente Tapaszto, Xiao Luo, Shi Liu, Fucai Liu   +12 more
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Enhancing Performance and Reliability of Hf1‐xZrxO2 Morphotropic Phase Boundary Films via Nanolaminate Structuring and Microwave Annealing

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Hf–Zr–O‐based morphotropic phase boundary (MPB) thin films often suffer from limited endurance and poor uniformity due to intrinsic phase instability. This work proposes a nanolaminate architecture that spatially separates competing phases, stabilizes phase formation, and suppresses wake‐up‐induced degradation.
Hojung Jang, Hyunsang Hwang
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Switchable tribology of ferroelectrics

Nature Communications
Switchable tribological properties of ferroelectrics offer an alternative route to visualize and control ferroelectric domains. Here, we observe the switchable friction and wear behavior of ferroelectrics using a nanoscale scanning probe—down domains ...
Seongwoo Cho, Iaroslav Gaponenko, Kumara Cordero-Edwards, Jordi Barceló-Mercader, Irene Arias, Daeho Kim, Céline Lichtensteiger, Jiwon Yeom, Loïc Musy, Hyunji Kim, Seung Min Han, Gustau Catalan, Patrycja Paruch, Seungbum Hong   +13 more
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Fully Printed Electrocaloric Heat Pump

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
A system based on a flexible printed PEDOT:PSS/P(VDF‐TrFE‐CFE) electrocaloric membrane. The membrane periodically alternates between the cold and hot sides following its electrocaloric cycle and successfully generates a temperature difference. The entire fabrication process is industrially scalable, cost‐effective, and based on widely accessible ...
Adrian Agreda, Florian Le Goupil, Guillaume Payrot, Sokha Khiev, Jean‐David Isasa, Wiljan Smaal, Guillaume Fleury, Georges Hadziioannou   +7 more
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A 2D hybrid perovskite ferroelectric with switchable polarization and photoelectric robustness down to monolayer

Nature Communications
The continuous dimensional scaling of semiconductor and logic photoelectric device requires ferroelectrics to possess robust photoelectric activity and switchable polarization at the nanoscale.
Yuzhong Hu, Haidong Lu, Shehr Bano Masood, Clemens Göhler, Shangpu Liu, Alexei Gruverman, Marin Alexe   +6 more
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