Multiferroic BiFeO${}_{3}$ has been surprising researchers with its properties for decades now, and questions related to the origin of polarization various mechanisms behind ferroelectric are still important. This study shows that in BiFeO${}_{3}$, quasipolaron surface is a nested domain structure. As more quasipolarons pinned at per unit area, density antiferromagnetically ordered spins increa...

Strontium doped lanthanum cobalt ferrite (LSCF) is a widely applied electrocatalyst for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in solid-oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) operated at intermediate temperatures. Sr surface segregation in long-term operation has been reported to have contradicting effects that either degrade or improve the reaction. Thus, it is critical to understand the mechanism of surface S...

A crackand pinhole-free composite membrane consisting of an a-alumina support and a modified y-alumina top layer which is thermally stable up to 1100°C was prepared by the sol-gel method. The supported thermally stable top layer was made by dipcoating the support with a boehmite sol doped with lanthanum nitrate. The temperature effects on the microstructure of the (supported and unsupported) La...

Photocatalytic mineralization of o-toluidine in aqueous media under UV/solar irradiation was achieved by bare and bismuth doped zinc oxide nanoparticles. By adopting different analytical approaches a reaction mechanism is proposed, explaining the differences in photodetoxification performances.

The present study concerns oxygen-ion transfer between yttriastabilized zirconia single crystals (YSZ/YSZ) under mechanical contact stress. Two YSZ single crystal plates were piled up between platinum meshes, and contact stress was mechanically applied. The interfacial conductivity as well as the bulk conductivity was successfully measured with this setup. The interfacial conductivity is greatl...

highly crystalline bi3+-doped cadmium oxide (cdo) sub-micron structures were synthesized by calcination the obtained precursor from a sol-gel reaction. the reaction was carried out with cadmium nitrate (cd(no3)2.4h2o), bismuth nitrate (bi(no3)3.5h2o) and ethylene glycol (c2h6o2) reactants without any additives at 80°c for 2h. resulting gel was calcined at 900 °c with increasing temperature rate...

It is shown that microstructure, dielectric and piezoelectric properties change in films based on lanthanum-substituted bismuth titanate (BLT) depending the alloying impurity material, which leads to changes coercive voltage, internal displacement field control coefficient. Keywords: lead-free ferroelectric films, titanate, electrophysical properties, capacitance-voltage characteristics, piezor...

Analysis of the existence memory phenomena in model heterostructures based on doped ferrite La0.5Sr0.5Fe0.75Al0.2Ni0.05O3-δ with a perovskite structure has been carried out. It was demonstrated that one 5-10 μm thick layer sandwiched between Pt and Ni electrodes exhibits an analog memristor behavior. Under positive polarity, this heterostructure shows smooth increase electrical conductivity, op...