Advanced Piezoelectric, Ferroelectric and Antiferroelectric Materials: From Fundamentals to Emerging Applications
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Smart Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 February 2027 | Viewed by 66
Editors
Interests: ferro-/piezoelectric materials and their application
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Dear Colleagues,
Piezoelectric, ferroelectric, and antiferroelectric materials possess diverse functional properties that enable a wide range of applications, spanning piezoelectric sensing, precision actuation, dielectric energy storage, energy harvesting, and advanced electronic devices. These material systems have attracted extensive research and development interest owing to their distinct yet complementary functional characteristics, including electromechanical coupling, switchable spontaneous polarization, domain dynamics, field-induced phase-transition behavior, and dielectric tunability. Recent breakthroughs in lead-free piezoelectrics, high-energy-density antiferroelectrics, and relaxor ferroelectrics have significantly expanded the scope and impact of this field, while at the same time, emerging application scenarios, including intelligent sensing, precision actuation, dielectric energy storage, energy harvesting, and electrocaloric cooling, are creating new opportunities for these advanced functional materials. Despite these advances, significant challenges remain in elucidating their polarization, domain, and phase-transition mechanisms and in further improving the electromechanical, dielectric, and energy-storage performance.
This Special Issue aims to present the latest advances in piezoelectric, ferroelectric, and antiferroelectric materials, ranging from their fundamental mechanisms to emerging applications. Original research articles, short communications, and comprehensive reviews are welcome, particularly those addressing material design, synthesis and processing; property optimization; structure–property relationships; advanced characterization; theoretical modeling; and device development for sensing, actuation, energy harvesting, energy storage, and related emerging fields.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Material design, synthesis, processing, and microstructural engineering of piezoelectric, ferroelectric, and antiferroelectric ceramics, along with single crystals, thin films, polymers, and composites;
- Performance optimization, underlying mechanisms, and structure–property relationships of piezoelectric, ferroelectric, and antiferroelectric materials;
- Advanced applications in sensing, precision actuation, ultrasonic transduction, energy harvesting, dielectric capacitors for energy storage, flexible electronics, and emerging intelligent systems.
Dr. Zenghui Liu
Guest Editor
Dr. Hongyan Wan
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- piezoelectric materials
- ferroelectric materials
- antiferroelectric materials
- electromechanical
- phase transitions
- electrocaloric
- energy harvesting
- electrostrain
- energy storage
- structure–property relationships
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