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Self‐Regulating Sodium‐Ion Battery Materials: From Phase Reconstruction to Functional Activation

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Self‐regulating sodium‐ion batteries hinge on programmable phase behavior in layered oxides, interphases that renew without growth, and electrolytes that steer solvation and chemistry. This review distills mechanisms into design rules that span composition, site and entropy tuning, and self‐buffering anodes, linking operando evidence to choices and ...
Hong Gao, Dingyi Zhang, Chao Wang, Tianxiao Chen, Xingwang Peng, Yuxiu Xing, Xin Guo, Yufei Zhao, Yong Wang, Guoxiu Wang, Hao Liu   +10 more
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Is There A Pure Electronic Ferroelectric?

Advanced Electronic Materials
Different from traditional ferroelectrics whose polarization stems from ionic displacements mediated by phonons, electronic ferroelectrics exhibit spontaneous polarization originating from polar electronic ordering.
Xudong Wang, Guichen Teng, Xiangjian Meng, Zhenxiang Cheng, Tie Lin, Hao Shen, Xiaodan Wang, Jianlu Wang, Junhao Chu   +8 more
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Electrocaloric effects in ferroelectrics and multiferroics from first principles

Journal of Materiomics
The electrocaloric (EC) effect characterizes the change in temperature or entropy of a material under the application of an external electric field. Ferroelectric and multiferroic materials have attracted considerable interest due to their potential for ...
Zhijun Jiang, Xueqing Wan, Bin Xu, Jorge Íñiguez-González, Laurent Bellaiche   +4 more
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Chiral Metal Halide Perovskites for Spin‐Polarized Light‐Emitting Diodes

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Chiral metal–halide perovskites offer a route to circularly polarized light without external polarizers. This Perspective compares two spin‐light emitting diode concepts: intrinsically chiral emissive layers and chiral spin‐filter interlayers that inject spin‐polarized carriers into efficient achiral emitters.
Ashish Gaurav, Jihyun Kim, Nadesh Fiuza‐Maneiro, Hongki Kim, Hae‐Jun Seok, Sergio Gómez Grana, Robert L. Z. Hoye, Lakshminarayana Polavarapu, Matthew J. Fuchter   +8 more
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Vortex ferroelectric domains

Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2008
We show experimental switching data on microscale capacitors of lead-zirconate-titanate (PZT), which reveal time-resolved domain behavior during switching on a 100-ns scale. For small circular capacitors, an unswitched domain remains in the center while complete switching is observed in square capacitors.
Gruverman, Alexei, Wu, D., Fan, H.-J., Vrejoiu, I., Alexe, M., Harrison, R. J., Scott, J. F.   +6 more
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Optical Manipulation of Multiferroic Phases in BiFeO3 Thin Films

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
At the strain‐driven morphotropic phase boundary, optical control over the multiferroic rhombohedral and tetragonal phase mixture is demonstrated using above‐bandgap light illumination. The photoinduced charge carriers modify the electrostatic environment and induce the conversion into a single tetragonal phase.
Bixin Yan, Lauren J. Riddiford, Aleš Hrabec, Annika Mechnich, Valentine Gillioz, Christian L. Degen, Manfred Fiebig, Morgan Trassin   +7 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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Multifunctional Oxadiazole‐Based Polycatenars: A Pathway to Polar Columnar Phases

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
Aromatic core fluorination directs oxadiazole‐based polycatenars into ferroelectric and antiferroelectric columnar phases with supergelation and photo‐responsiveness. ABSTRACT Polar columnar liquid crystals (LCs) offer a promising pathway to nanostructured architectures for next‐generation ferroelectric devices.
Yu Cao, Tejal Nirgude, Jonathan Jende, Alexander Jarosik, Alexey Eremin, Feng Liu, Masafumi Yoshio, Mohamed Alaasar   +7 more
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BaTiO3‐Based Materials for Electrocatalytic Water Splitting

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
This review provides a comprehensive and in‐depth exploration of the fundamental aspects and advantages behind the rising interest in BaTiO3‐based materials as electrocatalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction and the oxygen evolution reaction, focusing on their unique ferroelectric features, electronic configurations, and surface chemistry ...
Binod Raj KC, Bishnu Prasad Bastakoti
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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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