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The rapidly advancing energy storage performance of dielectric ceramics capacitors has garnered significant interest for applications in fast charge/discharge and high-power electronic techniques. Exploring the exceptional electrical properties in harsh environments can further promote their practical applications. Defect carriers can be excited under luminance irradiation, thereby leading to degradation of energy storage performance. Herein, a synergic optimization strategy is proposed to enhan...

Antimony (Sb)-based anode materials are feasible candidates for sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) due to their high theoretical specific capacity and excellent electrical conductivity. However, they still suffer from volume distortion, structural collapse, and ionic conduction interruption upon cycling. Herein, a hierarchical array-like nanofiber structure was designed to address these limitations by combining architecture engineering and anion tuning strategy, in which SbPO4−x with oxygen vacancy n...

In contrast to conventional oxidation techniques, tribocatalysis degradation of organics has gained much attention in recent years due to its mild requirement and low amount of energy needed. Therefore, we prepared Ba1.4Sr3.6NdNb7Ti3O30 (BSNNT) ferroelectric nanopowder by a solid-phase synthesis method and further investigated the effects of oxygen vacancies and heterojunctions on the tribocatalysis effect. The results showed that the introduction of oxygen vacancies not only reduced the valence...

Photocatalytic CO2 reduction into valuable fuel and chemical production has been regarded as a prospective strategy for tackling with the issues of the increasing of greenhouse gases and shortage of sustainable energy. A composite photocatalysis system employing a semiconductor enriched with oxygen vacancy and coupled with metallic cocatalyst can facilitate charge separation and transfer electrons. In this work, mesoporous TiO2 and titanium-based perovskite oxides (BaTiO3 and SrTiO3) nanoparticl...

Photovoltaic technology has been a research hotspot in the field of renewable and clean solar energy. More recently, the ferroelectric photovoltaic effect (FEPV) of BiFeO3 has attracted much attention, since it could obtain a giant open-circuit voltage (VOC) far beyond its bandgap and possibly break through the energy conversion limit of traditional solar cells. However, there has been controversy about the origin and the mechanism of FEPV in BiFeO3. In this work, (Pr, Ni) co-doped BiFeO3 film p...

Photovoltaic energy as one of the important alternatives to traditional fossil fuels has always been a research hot spot in the field of renewable and clean solar energy. Very recently, the anomalous ferroelectric photovoltaic effect in multiferroic bismuth ferrite (BiFeO3) has attracted much attention due to the above-bandgap photovoltage and switchable photocurrent. However, its photocurrent density mostly in the magnitudes of μA/cm2 resulted in a poor power conversion efficiency, which sever...

Abstract Phase transition is common during (de)-intercalating layered sodium oxides, which directly affects the structural stability and electrochemical performance. However, the artificial control of phase transition to achieve advanced sodium-ion batteries is lacking, since the remarkably little is known about the influencing factor relative to the sliding process of transition-metal slabs upon sodium release and uptake of layered oxides. Herein, we for the first time demonstrate the manipula...

The molecule water activation is believed to be one of the most critical steps that is closely related to the proceeding of photoinduced reaction, such as overall water splitting, carbon dioxide conversion, and organic contaminant degradation. As metal oxides possessing a regular structure with high crystallinity are widely accepted as promising for effective catalysis, numerous studies have been devoted to the relevant photoinduced applications. However, their irregular derivative phases with l...