Preparation, Characterization and Application of Ferroelectric/Piezoelectric Nanomaterials
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanoelectronics, Nanosensors and Devices".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2021) | Viewed by 3788
Special Issue Editor
Interests: ceramics based on barium titanate BaTiO3 (BT); ceramics based on sodium bismuth titanate Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3 (BNT) doped with barium titanate (BNT-BTx); oxide materials; multifunctional composites with new architectures, such as core-shell grains, tubes, core-shell, and thin film heterostructure; wet chemical synthesis methods (sol–gel, gel-combustion, coprecipitation, and hydrothermal)
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Ferroelectric materials have functional applications, such as energy harvesting transducers, advanced sensors, actuators in fields of energy, information, and communication. Over the last decade, ferroelectric/piezoelectric nanomaterials have received extensive attention from scientific and engineering viewpoints. They exhibit different properties from those of bulk materials due to their small size and large surface-to-volume ratios and become promising candidates for nanometer scale electronic, optical, and mechanical devices.
Barium titanate (BaTiO3, BT) was one of the first useful piezoelectric materials, but Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 (PZT) is the most widely used ferroelectric material. There is an increasing demand for the development of lead-free materials with similar piezoelectric and ferroelectric properties to the lead-based ceramics. BT continues to be a fundamental system of investigation, but it does not have properties comparable to PZT. For this reason, BT is often used in solid solution with other lead-free compounds, such as sodium bismuth titanate-Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3 (NBT), to form materials with enhanced piezoelectric and dielectric properties.
This Special Issue of Nanomaterials aims to cover the most recent advances in the synthesis procedures for the preparation of ferroelectric/piezoelectric nanomaterials with different compositions, morphologies, and structures in order to enhance their performance and breadth of applications.
Dr. Marin Cernea
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Wet chemical synthesis
- Ferroelectric nanomaterials
- Piezoelectric nanomaterials
- Dielectric characterization
- Piezoelectric measurements.
