Bismuth sodium zirconate titanate ceramics with the formula Bi0.5Na0.5Zr1-xTixO3 [BNZT], where x = 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, and 0.6, were prepared by a conventional solid-state sintering method. Phase identification was investigated using an X-ray diffraction technique. All compositions exhibited complete solubility of Ti4+ at the Zr4+ site. Both a decrease of unit cell size and phase transition from an ...

In recent years, several papers reported an enhanced dielectric anisotropy when ferroelectric particles were suspended in a liquid crystal. These results seem to be sensitive to the liquid crystal used and the preparation method of the ferroelectric particles. In this paper, we compare different preparation methods of suspended barium titanate in two different liquid crystal hosts. As a control...

Hydrogen titanate nanotubes were synthesized by hydrothermal process using 10 M NaOH and TiO2 anatase powder. The material synthesized was characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to ensure the structural and morphological characteristics. The interaction of calf thymus DNA (CT-DNA) and bovine serum albumin protein w...

Atomic Layer Deposition of Platinum on Strontium Titanate Surfaces Tremendous energy savings and environmental benefits are possible from improved catalysts for chemical manufacturing and emissions reduction. Breakthroughs in catalyst development will be enabled by precise methods for synthesizing nanostructured materials. Atomic layer deposition (ALD) is a thin film growth technique that is cu...

The thermoelectric properties of lanthanum-doped polycrystalline perovskite-type europium titanate were measured from room temperature to 900K and compared to those of MTiO3 (M 1⁄4 Ca, Sr, Ba). The differences in the titanates were calculated in terms of the differences of A-site ion and Ti–O distance that determined the covalent bonding strength. The A-site ion appeared to have little influenc...

Hydrothermal and commercial barium titanate powders were examined for undesirable impurity phases. Compositional differences in the powder were evaluated using x-ray diffraction ( XRD ), x-ray fluorescence ( XRF ), and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). A brium-rich impurity phase, virtually undetectable by XRD, was detected via XPS. Barium impurity phase peaks were detected at binding ene...

Phonon Hall effect (PHE) has attracted a lot of attention in recent years with many theoretical and experimental explorations published. While experiments work on complicated materials, studies are still hovering around the phenomenon-based models. Moreover, previous microscopic theory was found unable to explain large thermal conductivity obtained by strontium titanate (STO). Therefore, an att...

In this study, TiO2 based nanotubes and nanosheets were synthesized to be used as an adsorbent and support in various processes. As a starting material, sol-gel synthesized anatase and commercial anatase were used. TiO2 was converted to high surface area hydrogen titanate (H2Ti3O7) and sodium titanate (Na2Ti3O7) nanotubes and nanosheets under alkaline conditions with hydrothermal treatment. In ...

A ferroelectric heater under A.C. field was demonstrated by using lead zirconate titanate and barium titanate ceramics. The temperature of the ceramics was increased from room temperature to its curie temperature of phase transition under an A.C. field. The heating characteristics greatly depend on the compositions of ceramics. It is proposed that the heating behavior is related to the domain s...

The photochemical growth of silver nanoparticles on the negative domains of lead zirconate titanate thin films is reported. A sample of highly [100] orientated lead zirconate titanate, with a ratio of 30:70, that was 65-70 nm thick grown on Pt-coated MgO was poled by use of piezoresponse force microscopy to produce defined regions of surface positive and negative polarization. A comparison betw...