This is a comment on the previously published paper "Enhancement of nonlinear optical properties of BaTiO3 nanoparticles by the addition of silver seeds," [Opt. Express20, 26511 (2012)10.1364/OE.20.026511]. An erroneous equation given in the manuscript is corrected with a more accurate equation in this comment.

Barium titanate (BaTiO3) peapod nanocomposites were prepared by the controlled capture of nanoparticles (NPs) in scrolling hexaniobate (HNB) nanosheets. BaTiO3 NPs and proton-exchanged potassium treated solvothermally at 220 °C for 6 h toluene to produce linear NP chains confined within multiwalled HNB nanoscrolls. This method consistently produced nanopeapods with average filling fractions gre...

With concerns regarding climate change, pollution, and a limited supply of fossil fuels, photovoltaics are an attractive alternate energy source. Within the field of photovoltaics, thin film organic solar cells are alluring due to their potential low cost, mechanical flexibility, and ease of fabrication. However, there are many drawbacks that need to be overcome such as incomplete photon absorp...

We have developed a luminescent marker using the second harmonic generation (SHG) from noncentrosymmetric BaTiO3 nanocrystals. These nanoparticles are attractive due to their stable, non-saturating and coherent signal with a femtosecond-scale response time and broad flexibility in the choice of excitation wavelength. In this paper, we report the SHG response of BaTiO3 nanocrystals under a circu...

A series of PA1111/BaTiO3 nanocomposites with different BaTiO3 contents are prepared by the in-situ salification-melt polymerization procedure. The morphological, spectroscopic studies and property characterization conducted. results indicate that proposed compositing method can effectively disperse nanoparticles in PA1111 matrix, as-prepared exhibit improved dielectric piezoelectric properties...

Cobalt ferrite (CoFe2O4)/barium titanate (BaTiO3) particulate composites exhibiting high magnetoelectric coefficients were synthesized from low-cost commercial precursors using mechanical ball milling followed by high-temperature annealing. CoFe2O4 (20 nm–50 nm) and either cubic or tetragonal BaTiO3 nanoparticle powders used for the synthesis. It was found that utilizing a 50 nm powder as precu...

Barium titanate, BaTiO3, nanoparticles (NPs) have been widely used as a ferroelectric/piezoelectric/ pyroelectric material in the electronic-optical ceramic industry. However, stability of BaTiO3 NP suspension is matter concern for their advanced applications wet-ceramic manufacturing, imaging, and electrorheological fluids. In this study, we investigated effect three different surfactants (sod...

The local environment at polarized solid-liquid interfaces provides a unique medium for chemical reactions that could be exploited to control the selectivity of non-faradaic reactions. Polarized interfaces are commonly prepared by applying a voltage to an electrode in an electrolyte solution, but it is challenging to achieve high surface charge densities while suppressing faradaic reactions. Fe...

Composite materials comprised of ferroelectric nanoparticles in a dielectric matrix are being actively investigated for a variety of functional properties attractive for a wide range of novel electronic and energy harvesting devices. However, the dependence of these functionalities on shapes, sizes, orientation and mutual arrangement of ferroelectric particles is currently not fully understood....

the synthesis of nb doped batio3 has been investigated under microwave-hydrothermal (mh) conditions in the temperature of 150°c for only 2 h using c16h36o4ti, bah2o2.8h2o and nbcl5 as ba, ti and  nb sources, respectively.  typical experiments performed on mh processing have not yet reported for nb doped batio3.  in the mh process, the formation of high purity nano tetragonal nb-batio3 was stron...