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ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
卷 27, 期 29, 页码 -出版社
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201701169
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- European Research Council through an ERC Starting Grant [ERC-2014-STG-639526, NANOGEN]
- EPSRC [EP/M010589/1]
- China Scholarship Council
- Cambridge Commonwealth, European and International Trust
- DOD-ONR [N000141310635, N000141512266]
- Marie Curie-Junta de Andalucia Postdoc Talentia grant
Ferroelectrics are important technological materials with wide-ranging applications in electronics, communication, health, and energy. While lead-based ferroelectrics have remained the predominant mainstay of industry for decades, environmentally friendly lead-free alternatives are limited due to relatively low Curie temperatures (T-C) and/or high cost in many cases. Efforts have been made to enhance T-C through strain engineering, often involving energy-intensive and expensive fabrication of thin epitaxial films on lattice-mismatched substrates. Here, a relatively simple and scalable sol-gel synthesis route to fabricate polycrystalline (Ba0.85Ca0.15)(Zr0.1Ti0.9)O-3 nanowires within porous templates is presented, with an observed enhancement of T-C up to similar to 300 degrees C as compared to similar to 90 degrees C in the bulk. By combining experiments and theoretical calculations, this effect is attributed to the volume reduction in the template-grown nanowires that modifies the balance between different structural instabilities. The results offer a cost-effective solution-based approach for strain-tuning in a promising lead-free ferroelectric system, thus widening their current applicability.
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