Ferroelectric materials with a spontaneous polarization are proven to be potential multicatalysts in water remediation applications. The composition of 0.5Ba(Zr0.2Ti0.8)O3-0.5(Ba0.7Sr0.3)TiO3 (BST-BZT) was examined for photocatalysis, piezocatalysis,...
Low-grade mechanical energy widely exists in natural environments, such as ocean-wave fluctuation, industrial vibration and human-body motion, yet most of this energy remains underutilized. Piezocatalysis, piezo-photocatalysis and piezoelectric nanog...
Emerging pollutants, such as N-acetyl-para-aminophenol, pose significant challenges to environmental sustainability, and Bi2Fe2O2 (BFO) nanomaterials are an emerging class of piezoelectric materials. This study presents a novel piezoelectric-driven F...
Antibiotic resistance of bacteria stimulates the development of new treatment approaches. Piezoelectric-catalysis has attracted much attention due to the possibility to effectively provide antibacterial effect via generation of reactive oxygen specie...
Dual-frequency ultrasound (DFUS) coupled with sonocatalysts has emerged to be an advanced tool for antimicrobial applications in medicine but remains scarcely studied for water disinfection. In the present work, we first integrated high-frequency DFU...
Among the various water purification techniques, advancements in membrane technology, with better fabrication and analysis, are receiving the most research attention. The piezo-catalytic degradation of water pollutants is an emerging area of research...
Driven by the pursuit of carbon-neutral and distributed energy systems, extensive efforts have been devoted to harvesting ubiquitous low-grade ambient mechanical energy. Piezocatalysis offers a unique light-independent and electricity-free pathway th...
Mechanical energy, a ubiquitous renewable resource, can be effectively harnessed via piezocatalysis to convert physical stimuli into chemical energy for sterilization. As a promising green technology, piezocatalysis employs external mechanical force...
Aquatic antibiotic pollution represented by ofloxacin (OFX) causes serious ecological hazards and endangers public health due to the high persistence and bioaccumulation of antibiotic residues. Conventional water treatment techniques are insufficient...
Piezocatalysis is a promising technology for converting mechanical energy to chemical energy. Two-dimensional (2D) piezoelectric materials, with their large surface area, high charge mobility, and good flexibility, are among the most promising candid...
Piezo-photocatalytic technique is a new-emerging strategy to alleviate photoinduced charge recombination and thus enhance catalytic performance. The heterojunction construction engineering is a powerful approach to improve photocatalytic performance....
BaTiO3-polymer paint composites were fabricated to examine piezocatalysis activities. Dye degradation and antibacterial activities were recorded under ultrasonication. The effect of polarization was also examined for the catalysis process. There were...
In this study, ferroelectric Bi4Ti3O12 and Au-Bi4Ti3O12 nanofibers were synthesized by electrospinning and ion sputtering. The piezoelectric effect of Bi4Ti3O12 and the surface plasmon effect of Au were used to improve the photogenerated electron&nda...
Piezocatalysis is a novel method that can be applied for degradation of organic pollutants in wastewater. In this paper, ferroelectric nanowires of antimony sulfoiodide (SbSI) have been fabricated using a sonochemical method. Methyl orange (MO) was c...
Cephalexin is a widely used antibiotic frequently detected in hospital wastewater and aquatic environments near pharmaceutical facilities, where its persistence contributes to the spread of antibiotic resistance. Mechanically driven advanced oxidatio...
The long-term stability of dental implants is limited by multiple factors, including peri-implant infection, impaired osseointegration, and poor soft tissue sealing. Compared with conventional passive surface modification strategies, piezoelectric ma...
Creating stimulus-sensitive smart catalysts capable of decomposing organic dyes with high efficiency is a critical task in ecology. Combining the advantages of photoactive piezoelectric nanomaterials and ferroelectric polymers can effectively solve t...
The creation of multi-stimuli-sensitive composite polymer–inorganic materials is a practical scientific task. The combination of photoactive magneto-piezoelectric nanomaterials and ferroelectric polymers offers new properties that can help solv...
Ferroelectric materials are known to possess multicatalytic abilities that are nowadays utilized for removing organic pollutants from water via piezocatalysis, photocatalysis, piezo-photocatalysis, and pyrocatalysis processes. The Ba0.85Ca0.15Ti0.9Zr...
Strain-induced internal electric fields present a significant path to boosting the separation of photoinduced electrons and holes. In addition, piezo-induced positive/negative pairs could be released smoothly, taking advantage of the excellent electr...
Piezocatalytic materials have attracted widespread attention in the fields of clean energy and water treatment because of their ability to convert mechanical energy directly into chemical energy. In this study, γ-AlON particles synthesised usin...
In this work, we investigate advanced photocatalyst Bi3TiNbO9 as promising piezophotocatalyst in terms of the effect of synthesis methods on the surface chemistry, structure, and catalytic performance in process of contaminant removal. Samples were p...
Piezoelectric catalytic technology has attracted much attention in the field of dye wastewater treatment, in which inorganic piezoelectric materials have been widely studied. Its core mechanism involves utilizing the piezoelectric effect to generate...
Highly porous membranes based on polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) with the addition of nanoscale particles of non-magnetic and magnetic iron oxides were synthesized using a combined method of non-solvent induced phase separation (NIPS) and thermo-induc...
Defect engineering constitutes a widely-employed method of adjusting the electronic structure and properties of oxide materials. However, controlling defects at room temperature remains a significant challenge due to the considerable thermal stabilit...
The piezocatalytic activity of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) is generally hampered by an insufficient intrinsic piezoelectric response, which largely restricts their application in energy catalytic conversion. Herein, MIL-125-NH2(Ti) (denoted...
The development of advanced semiconductor-based catalysts for the rapid degradation of emerging pharmaceutical pollutants in water remains a critical challenge in environmental science. In this study, we present the synthesis, characterization, and c...
Ultrasonically assisted catalysis—also called sonocatalysis—is one of the advanced oxidation processes used for wastewater treatment. It has been shown that using nanoparticles of piezoelectric materials as nanocatalysts in sonocatalysis...
In light of external bias potential separating charge carriers on the photocatalyst surface, piezo materials’ built-in electric field plays a comparable role in enhancing photocatalyst performance. The synergistic effect provided by combining p...
One-dimensional anisotropic nanoparticles are of great research interest across a wide range of biomedical applications due to their specific physicochemical and magnetic properties in comparison with isotropic magnetic nanoparticles. In this work, t...
Photocatalytic fog seal technology for asphalt pavement suffers from unclear photocatalyst selection criteria, incomplete testing and evaluation systems, and poorly understood efficacy enhancement mechanisms. This review systematically examines the m...
Ultrasound-responsive nanomaterials represent a promising approach for achieving non-invasive and localized drug delivery within tumor microenvironments. In this study, we developed a piezocatalysis-assisted hydrogel system that integrates reactive o...
Interest in pyroelectrics and piezoelectrics has increased worldwide on account of their unique properties. Applications based on these phenomena include piezo- and pyroelectric nanogenerators, piezoelectric sensors, and piezocatalysis. One of the mo...
The metal-free polymeric semiconductor graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) has emerged as a promising material for photocatalytic applications due to its responsiveness to visible light, adjustable electronic structure, and stability. This review syste...
Piezocatalysis, a heterogeneous catalytic technique, leverages the periodic electric field changes generated by piezoelectric materials under external forces to drive carriers for the advanced oxidation of organic pollutants. Antibiotics, as emerging...
Piezoelectric catalysis exploits the piezoelectric effect of materials under mechanical stress, inducing surface charges that participate in wastewater degradation reactions. This process generates no secondary pollution and represents an environment...
Piezo-enhanced photocatalysis is progressively considered an eco-friendly technology for contaminant removal, harvesting not only solar energy but also mechanical vibrations found in nature. Multiferroic materials present a coupled effect of various...
Given the increasing environmental degradation, this study investigates advanced zinc oxide (ZnO)-based materials for the mineralization of toxic compounds through the combined action of photo- and piezocatalysis. Two complementary strategies were em...