Functional Materials: Piezoelectric, Ferroelectric, Pyroelectric, and Dielectric Energy Storage
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 February 2025 | Viewed by 193
Special Issue Editors
Interests: structural functional materials such as piezoelectric, ferroelectric, pyroelectric, and dielectric energy storage
Interests: dielectric/piezoelectric/ferroelectric materials; flexible electronics; energy harvesting system
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: piezoelectric materials; ferroelectric materials; electrocaloric effect
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Ferroelectric ceramics are polycrystalline solid solution functional materials with piezoelectric effects, pyroelectric effects and ferroelectric properties at the same time. These types of material is electrical, mechanical, thermal, optical, and magnetic, and have a coupling effect between them. They have a wide range of applications in the piezoelectricity, pyroelectricity, electrocaloric effect, energy storage, electro-optical, magneto-electricity and other fields and there is a wide range of research applications available. Scholars in various countries are engaged in the development of new high-performance functional ferroelectric/piezoelectric ceramic materials for the manufacture of capacitors, transducers, sensors, actuators, resonators, infrared detectors, solid-state refrigerators and other electronic devices. Precise control of the chemical compositions and domain structures of ferroelectric materials and research on the intrinsic relationship of "compositions/microstructures, boundary conditions/interfacial effects, and polarization characteristics" will help to promote the use of ferroelectric/piezoelectric ceramics in the fields of electronics and information, artificial intelligence, aerospace, environment (electrocaloric cooling, photocatalysis, piezoelectric catalysis, pyroelectric catalysis, etc.) and energy (dielectric high-power energy storage, piezoelectric–pyroelectric energy harvesting, solar cells, abnormal photovoltaics, etc.), among other innovative applications. High-quality research papers and reviews are now being solicited worldwide.
Dr. Hong Liu
Dr. Yu Chen
Dr. Junjie Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- ferroelectricity
- piezoelectricity
- pyroelectricity
- electrocaloric effect
- dielectric energy storage
- piezoelectric catalysis
- pyroelectric catalysis
- piezoelectric energy harvesting
- pyroelectric energy harvesting
- dielectric properties
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