Pub Date : 2025-05-09DOI: 10.1016/j.jmat.2025.101069
Zhan Zeng , Jin Cheng , Xinwei Xu , Hongye Wang , Yani Lu , Liang Sun , Naichao Chen , Xiaoyu Li , Boshen Zhang , Hong Wang
As electronic devices become increasingly miniaturized and demand greater integration, traditional packaging technologies face substantial challenges in meeting the needs for high-frequency performance and system reliability. Ceramic materials, known for their excellent dielectric properties and thermal stability, are promising candidates for advanced packaging applications. However, conventional high-temperature densification processes, which often exceed 1000 °C, restrict their compatibility with temperature-sensitive components in modern electronic systems. To overcome this limitation, we propose a novel approach to densify Al2O3H3BO3 ceramic at room temperature under low uniaxial stress. It is found that a H3BO3 facilitates plastic deformation in the medium of deionized water, enhancing the densification of Al2O3H3BO3 ceramics even at minimal uniaxial stress. The resulting material exhibits a high relative density of over 96% and possesses excellent microwave dielectric properties (relative permittivity : 2.84–5.37; values: 12,924–69,000 GHz; resonant frequency values: −156.94 10−6 °C−1 to −73.42 10−6 °C−1) and thermal conductivity ( values: 1.96–5.96 W·m−1·K−1). After co-firing with a silicon wafer, the ceramic maintains its structural integrity, with no observable atomic diffusion at the ceramic-silicon interface, rendering it a potential candidate for advanced packaging and integration technologies.
{"title":"Room-temperature densified Al2O3-H3BO3 ceramics with excellent microwave dielectric properties and thermal conductivity for chip packaging","authors":"Zhan Zeng , Jin Cheng , Xinwei Xu , Hongye Wang , Yani Lu , Liang Sun , Naichao Chen , Xiaoyu Li , Boshen Zhang , Hong Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.jmat.2025.101069","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jmat.2025.101069","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As electronic devices become increasingly miniaturized and demand greater integration, traditional packaging technologies face substantial challenges in meeting the needs for high-frequency performance and system reliability. Ceramic materials, known for their excellent dielectric properties and thermal stability, are promising candidates for advanced packaging applications. However, conventional high-temperature densification processes, which often exceed 1000 °C, restrict their compatibility with temperature-sensitive components in modern electronic systems. To overcome this limitation, we propose a novel approach to densify Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub><img>H<sub>3</sub>BO<sub>3</sub> ceramic at room temperature under low uniaxial stress. It is found that a H<sub>3</sub>BO<sub>3</sub> facilitates plastic deformation in the medium of deionized water, enhancing the densification of Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub><img>H<sub>3</sub>BO<sub>3</sub> ceramics even at minimal uniaxial stress. The resulting material exhibits a high relative density of over 96% and possesses excellent microwave dielectric properties (relative permittivity <span><math><msub><mi>ε</mi><mi>r</mi></msub></math></span>: 2.84–5.37; <span><math><mrow><mi>Q</mi><mo>×</mo><mi>f</mi></mrow></math></span> values: 12,924–69,000 GHz; resonant frequency <span><math><msub><mi>τ</mi><mi>f</mi></msub></math></span> values: −156.94 10<sup>−6</sup> °C<sup>−1</sup> to −73.42 10<sup>−6</sup> °C<sup>−1</sup>) and thermal conductivity (<span><math><mrow><mi>λ</mi></mrow></math></span> values: 1.96–5.96 W·m<sup>−1</sup>·K<sup>−1</sup>). After co-firing with a silicon wafer, the ceramic maintains its structural integrity, with no observable atomic diffusion at the ceramic-silicon interface, rendering it a potential candidate for advanced packaging and integration technologies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16173,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Materiomics","volume":"11 6","pages":"Article 101069"},"PeriodicalIF":8.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143926348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Massive energy is consumed to cool buildings for comfortable life in hot climates due to indoor air-conditioning, which necessitates the passive daytime radiative cooling of buildings. Given the high ambient temperature, it is essential to increase the thermal resistance of building walls through paints and enhance their durability to dust and aerosol contamination. In this work, a multifunctional composite paint, mainly consisting of inorganic pigments and mesoporous silica aerogel (SA), is proposed for passive radiative cooling, low thermal conductivity, and surface self-cleaning. In comparison with ordinary paint, the SA microparticles-infused composite paint can enhance the reflectance (ρVIS-NIR) to the solar irradiance by up to 15% in the visible and near-infrared ranges (0.3–2.5 μm). It also maintains the radiative cooling property with about 0.96 emissivity (εLWIR) in the atmospheric transparency windows (8–13 μm) for thermal radiation to dissipate into the cold outer space. Even after long-term outdoor exposure to harsh environmental conditions, SA-infused white paint can still maintain its spectral and wetting properties, achieving daytime cooling with 7.4 °C lower than the ambient temperature. Moreover, the SA infusion enables the paint to reduce the thermal conductivity by 50% and provide much better thermal insulation, while SA renders the paint surface hydrophobic and self-cleaning.
{"title":"Multifunctional silica aerogel-infused paint for self-cleaning and radiative cooling","authors":"Adil Al-Mahdouri , Aikifa Raza , Abdulrahman Al-Hashmi , Youbo Zhao , Krishna Mohan , Khalid Askar , TieJun Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.jmat.2025.101070","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jmat.2025.101070","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Massive energy is consumed to cool buildings for comfortable life in hot climates due to indoor air-conditioning, which necessitates the passive daytime radiative cooling of buildings. Given the high ambient temperature, it is essential to increase the thermal resistance of building walls through paints and enhance their durability to dust and aerosol contamination. In this work, a multifunctional composite paint, mainly consisting of inorganic pigments and mesoporous silica aerogel (SA), is proposed for passive radiative cooling, low thermal conductivity, and surface self-cleaning. In comparison with ordinary paint, the SA microparticles-infused composite paint can enhance the reflectance (<em>ρ</em><sub>VIS-NIR</sub>) to the solar irradiance by up to 15% in the visible and near-infrared ranges (0.3–2.5 μm). It also maintains the radiative cooling property with about 0.96 emissivity (<em>ε</em><sub>LWIR</sub>) in the atmospheric transparency windows (8–13 μm) for thermal radiation to dissipate into the cold outer space. Even after long-term outdoor exposure to harsh environmental conditions, SA-infused white paint can still maintain its spectral and wetting properties, achieving daytime cooling with 7.4 °C lower than the ambient temperature. Moreover, the SA infusion enables the paint to reduce the thermal conductivity by 50% and provide much better thermal insulation, while SA renders the paint surface hydrophobic and self-cleaning.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16173,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Materiomics","volume":"11 6","pages":"Article 101070"},"PeriodicalIF":8.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143901374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-05-02DOI: 10.1016/j.jmat.2025.101071
Kui Xue , Min Xing , Tiantian Chen , Bingyun Xi , Haifeng Zhang , Kuicai Ye , Jiayin Feng , Wenhao Qian , Jiajun Qiu , Xuanyong Liu
For alveolar bone defects, magnesium membrane with the mechanical properties of shielding fibrocyte growth and sustainable release of Mg2+ is an excellent choice for guide bone regeneration (GBR) surgery. However, insufficient osteogenesis and bacterial infection have hindered its application. In this study, MgGa-LDH coating was successfully prepared, which delayed the degradation rate of the Mg membranes and greatly reduced the amount of hydrogen evolution. A weakly alkaline microenvironment (pH = 8.5) containing appropriate concentrations of Mg2+ and Ga3+ was successfully constructed, effectively promoting the adhesion and proliferation of MC3T3-E1 cells. It also upregulated the expression of alkaline phosphatase and collagen, which were conducive to the formation of mineralized nodules, and promoted the osteogenic differentiation of rat bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells in vitro. In addition, Ga3+ released from the coating and the generated alkaline microenvironment showed good antibacterial properties against S. aureus and E. coli. The MgGa-LDH coating can effectively reduce the degradation rate of Mg membranes and mitigate inflammation. The MgGa-LDH coating modified Mg membrane promoted new bone formation in cranial defect animal models. This bone-promoting Mg2+ and Ga3+ releasing platform and weak alkaline microenvironment creation system paves the way for the application of Mg membranes in the field of GBR.
对于牙槽骨缺损,具有屏蔽纤维细胞生长和Mg2+持续释放的力学性能的镁膜是引导骨再生(GBR)手术的理想选择。然而,成骨不足和细菌感染阻碍了其应用。本研究成功制备了Mg- ga - ldh涂层,延缓了Mg膜的降解速度,大大降低了析氢量。成功构建了适宜浓度Mg2+和Ga3+的弱碱性微环境(pH =8.5),可有效促进MC3T3-E1细胞的粘附和增殖。上调碱性磷酸酶和胶原蛋白的表达,有利于矿化结节的形成,促进体外培养大鼠骨髓间充质干细胞成骨分化。此外,涂层释放的Ga3+和生成的碱性微环境对金黄色葡萄球菌具有良好的抗菌性能。Mg- ga - ldh涂层可以有效降低Mg膜的降解率,减轻炎症反应。Mg- ga - ldh涂层修饰Mg膜促进颅骨缺损动物模型新骨形成。该促骨Mg2+和Ga3+释放平台和弱碱性微环境创建系统为Mg膜在GBR领域的应用铺平了道路。
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Pub Date : 2025-05-02DOI: 10.1016/j.jmat.2025.101068
Zhen Zhou , Lvkang Shen , Xiaohua Xing , Keyu Tan , Die Zou , Qiankun Zhang , Rui Zhu , Zhiyong Wang , Jianquan Yao , Ming Liu , Liang Wu
With the advancement of spintronics, tunability has emerged as a highly sought-after attribute of magnetic materials. Nevertheless, the comprehension of the terahertz (THz) optical characteristics of tunable magnetic materials driven by external excitation fields remains limited, necessitating further qualitative and quantitative investigation. Here we demonstrate the tunable optical properties of the LiFe5O8 (LFO)/F-Mica structure under magnetic field by a THz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) system. The prepared LFO/F-Mica structure shows significant changes in dielectric properties and absorption coefficients under different magnetic fields, which is attributed to the interaction of the magnetic field with the spins of ordered magnetic ions (Fe3+) located in a non-centrosymmetric coordination environment. In addition, we investigate the specific contribution of the external laser field to the THz optical parameters of the LFO/F-Mica. The dielectric properties and THz optical response of LFO/F-Mica significantly depend on the laser power under 532 nm laser pumping. The modulation effects of these diverse external fields reveal the potential of lithium ferrites for applications in the THz band. These findings offer valuable insights for the development of tunable multifunctional THz magnetic devices, with potential applications in the fields of communications, medicine, and nondestructive testing.
{"title":"Observation of tunable terahertz optical response in nanoscale lithium ferrite driven by magnetic field and laser","authors":"Zhen Zhou , Lvkang Shen , Xiaohua Xing , Keyu Tan , Die Zou , Qiankun Zhang , Rui Zhu , Zhiyong Wang , Jianquan Yao , Ming Liu , Liang Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.jmat.2025.101068","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jmat.2025.101068","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>With the advancement of spintronics, tunability has emerged as a highly sought-after attribute of magnetic materials. Nevertheless, the comprehension of the terahertz (THz) optical characteristics of tunable magnetic materials driven by external excitation fields remains limited, necessitating further qualitative and quantitative investigation. Here we demonstrate the tunable optical properties of the LiFe<sub>5</sub>O<sub>8</sub> (LFO)/F-Mica structure under magnetic field by a THz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) system. The prepared LFO/F-Mica structure shows significant changes in dielectric properties and absorption coefficients under different magnetic fields, which is attributed to the interaction of the magnetic field with the spins of ordered magnetic ions (Fe<sup>3+</sup>) located in a non-centrosymmetric coordination environment. In addition, we investigate the specific contribution of the external laser field to the THz optical parameters of the LFO/F-Mica. The dielectric properties and THz optical response of LFO/F-Mica significantly depend on the laser power under 532 nm laser pumping. The modulation effects of these diverse external fields reveal the potential of lithium ferrites for applications in the THz band. These findings offer valuable insights for the development of tunable multifunctional THz magnetic devices, with potential applications in the fields of communications, medicine, and nondestructive testing.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16173,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Materiomics","volume":"11 6","pages":"Article 101068"},"PeriodicalIF":8.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143897621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-05-02DOI: 10.1016/j.jmat.2025.101073
Fanlei Qin , Yujie Chen , Jiawen Wang , Hangzhang Kou , Denghao Li , Zhen Xiao , Lihui Huang , Shiqing Xu , Gongxun Bai
Mechanoluminescence materials have important promise as smart phosphors, offering wide-ranging applications in sensing technologies. Nevertheless, the creation of photonic materials capable of responding to various external stimuli and demonstrating multiple functionalities in different contexts remains a major challenge. In this research, we synthesized the doped piezoelectric semiconductor CaZnOS, incorporating trinary luminescent centers. This material exhibited multi-modal responses to diverse stimuli, including ultraviolet and near-infrared light, mechanical stress, and temperature variations. Notably, it demonstrated rapid responsiveness to various forms of mechanical stress, with a response time on the millisecond scale and outstanding stability. By adjusting the doping ratio of emitting ions, we achieved modulation of luminescent colors. Furthermore, the integration of dual-mode emission facilitated highly sensitive temperature sensing, independent of external light sources. These findings indicate that our material holds great promise for applications in intelligent sensing of stress and temperature.
{"title":"Multi-modal emissions from trinary active centers in piezoelectric semiconductor materials for intelligent sensing of stress and temperature","authors":"Fanlei Qin , Yujie Chen , Jiawen Wang , Hangzhang Kou , Denghao Li , Zhen Xiao , Lihui Huang , Shiqing Xu , Gongxun Bai","doi":"10.1016/j.jmat.2025.101073","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jmat.2025.101073","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Mechanoluminescence materials have important promise as smart phosphors, offering wide-ranging applications in sensing technologies. Nevertheless, the creation of photonic materials capable of responding to various external stimuli and demonstrating multiple functionalities in different contexts remains a major challenge. In this research, we synthesized the doped piezoelectric semiconductor CaZnOS, incorporating trinary luminescent centers. This material exhibited multi-modal responses to diverse stimuli, including ultraviolet and near-infrared light, mechanical stress, and temperature variations. Notably, it demonstrated rapid responsiveness to various forms of mechanical stress, with a response time on the millisecond scale and outstanding stability. By adjusting the doping ratio of emitting ions, we achieved modulation of luminescent colors. Furthermore, the integration of dual-mode emission facilitated highly sensitive temperature sensing, independent of external light sources. These findings indicate that our material holds great promise for applications in intelligent sensing of stress and temperature.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16173,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Materiomics","volume":"11 6","pages":"Article 101073"},"PeriodicalIF":8.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143901375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-05-02DOI: 10.1016/j.jmat.2025.101072
Xiaoyu Yao , Lin Li , Wei Liu , Wenqi Wei , Minhong Jiang , Xiaojiang Mu , Jingtai Zhao , Guanghui Rao
In this study, we investigated a novel multifunctional piezoelectric phosphor LiNbO3:1%Pr3+, 0.5%Zn2+, which exhibited outstanding mechanoluminescence (ML) characteristics due to the strategic incorporation of Zn2+. A dual-regulation mechanism is proposed by adjusting the charge transfer band (CTB) energy level position and optimizing the defect distribution, thus realizing high-brightness, long-term storage, and highly repeatable red emission in ML. The addition of Zn2+ can lower the CTB energy level of the phosphor, which leads to the easier transfer of 3P0 electrons of Pr3+ to the 1D2 energy level through the CTB band, thus enhancing the ML red emission. The introduction of a small amount of Zn2+ effectively couple the trap structure with the piezoelectric properties of the material, significantly enhancing ML properties. Notably, the material exhibits excellent ML repeatability and long-term storage, maintaining a strong ML response even after 30 d. Density functional theory calculations of the phosphor confirmed that the doping of Zn2+ in LiNbO3:1%Pr3+ optimized the trap concentration and distribution, thereby improving the ML performance. This multifunctional material holds great potential for use in electromechanical and optoelectronic devices, contributing to the development of smart devices with broader applications.
{"title":"Effective long-term storage and repeatable mechanoluminescence of piezoelectrics LiNbO3:1%Pr3+, 0.5%Zn2+","authors":"Xiaoyu Yao , Lin Li , Wei Liu , Wenqi Wei , Minhong Jiang , Xiaojiang Mu , Jingtai Zhao , Guanghui Rao","doi":"10.1016/j.jmat.2025.101072","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jmat.2025.101072","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this study, we investigated a novel multifunctional piezoelectric phosphor LiNbO<sub>3</sub>:1%Pr<sup>3+</sup>, 0.5%Zn<sup>2+</sup>, which exhibited outstanding mechanoluminescence (ML) characteristics due to the strategic incorporation of Zn<sup>2+</sup>. A dual-regulation mechanism is proposed by adjusting the charge transfer band (CTB) energy level position and optimizing the defect distribution, thus realizing high-brightness, long-term storage, and highly repeatable red emission in ML. The addition of Zn<sup>2+</sup> can lower the CTB energy level of the phosphor, which leads to the easier transfer of <sup>3</sup>P<sub>0</sub> electrons of Pr<sup>3+</sup> to the <sup>1</sup>D<sub>2</sub> energy level through the CTB band, thus enhancing the ML red emission. The introduction of a small amount of Zn<sup>2+</sup> effectively couple the trap structure with the piezoelectric properties of the material, significantly enhancing ML properties. Notably, the material exhibits excellent ML repeatability and long-term storage, maintaining a strong ML response even after 30 d. Density functional theory calculations of the phosphor confirmed that the doping of Zn<sup>2+</sup> in LiNbO<sub>3</sub>:1%Pr<sup>3+</sup> optimized the trap concentration and distribution, thereby improving the ML performance. This multifunctional material holds great potential for use in electromechanical and optoelectronic devices, contributing to the development of smart devices with broader applications.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16173,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Materiomics","volume":"11 6","pages":"Article 101072"},"PeriodicalIF":8.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143897619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-04-24DOI: 10.1016/j.jmat.2025.101064
Zhicong Chen , Qianbiao Du , Guo Tian , Linzhao Ma , Longxiang Jiang , Chang Jiang , Zeyan Zhou , Hao Li
This study introduces a novel microwave dielectric ceramic, MgAl5/4(Li1/3Ti2/3)3/4O4, tailored for modern communication technologies. MgAl5/4(Li1/3Ti2/3)3/4O4 ceramics feature a composite spinel structure (Fd-3m space group) comprising MgAl2O4 and Li4Ti5O12 type phases. By substituting Al3+ of MgAl2O4 ceramic with the composite ion (Li1/3Ti2/3)3+, differences in elemental diffusion induced by sintering temperature (1200–1280 °C) significantly affect the microwave dielectric properties: a low εᵣ (11.83) and enhanced microwave properties (Q×f = 79,381 GHz and τf = −28.5 × 10−6/°C) at 1240 °C. With further optimization of the ceramics, a near-zero τf is realized in 0.93MgAl5/4(Li1/3Ti2/3)3/4O4-0.07CaTiO3 ceramics with excellent comprehensive performance (εr = 14.36, Q×f = 44,144 GHz). Building on this, a multi-band dielectric resonant antenna (DRA) was designed for applications in communication and aeronautical radio navigation, featuring a wide relative bandwidth of 39.37% (5.97–6.49 GHz and 7.19–9.83 GHz). This study presents an optimization strategy for obtaining microwave dielectric ceramics with low εr, high Q×f, excellent frequency-temperature stability, low sintering temperature, and low density.
{"title":"Tailoring microwave dielectric properties of MgAl5/4(Li1/3Ti2/3)3/4O4 ceramics for multi-band dielectric resonant antenna","authors":"Zhicong Chen , Qianbiao Du , Guo Tian , Linzhao Ma , Longxiang Jiang , Chang Jiang , Zeyan Zhou , Hao Li","doi":"10.1016/j.jmat.2025.101064","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jmat.2025.101064","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study introduces a novel microwave dielectric ceramic, MgAl<sub>5/4</sub>(Li<sub>1/3</sub>Ti<sub>2/3</sub>)<sub>3/4</sub>O<sub>4</sub>, tailored for modern communication technologies. MgAl<sub>5/4</sub>(Li<sub>1/3</sub>Ti<sub>2/3</sub>)<sub>3/4</sub>O<sub>4</sub> ceramics feature a composite spinel structure (<em>Fd</em>-3m space group) comprising MgAl<sub>2</sub>O<sub>4</sub> and Li<sub>4</sub>Ti<sub>5</sub>O<sub>12</sub> type phases. By substituting Al<sup>3+</sup> of MgAl<sub>2</sub>O<sub>4</sub> ceramic with the composite ion (Li<sub>1/3</sub>Ti<sub>2/3</sub>)<sup>3+</sup>, differences in elemental diffusion induced by sintering temperature (1200–1280 °C) significantly affect the microwave dielectric properties: a low <em>ε</em>ᵣ (11.83) and enhanced microwave properties (<em>Q</em>×<em>f</em> = 79,381 GHz and <em>τ</em><sub>f</sub> = −28.5 × 10<sup>−6</sup>/°C) at 1240 °C. With further optimization of the ceramics, a near-zero <em>τ</em><sub>f</sub> is realized in 0.93MgAl<sub>5/4</sub>(Li<sub>1/3</sub>Ti<sub>2/3</sub>)<sub>3/4</sub>O<sub>4</sub>-0.07CaTiO<sub>3</sub> ceramics with excellent comprehensive performance (<em>ε</em><sub>r</sub> = 14.36, <em>Q</em>×<em>f</em> = 44,144 GHz). Building on this, a multi-band dielectric resonant antenna (DRA) was designed for applications in communication and aeronautical radio navigation, featuring a wide relative bandwidth of 39.37% (5.97–6.49 GHz and 7.19–9.83 GHz). This study presents an optimization strategy for obtaining microwave dielectric ceramics with low <em>ε</em><sub>r</sub>, high <em>Q</em>×<em>f</em>, excellent frequency-temperature stability, low sintering temperature, and low density.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16173,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Materiomics","volume":"11 6","pages":"Article 101064"},"PeriodicalIF":8.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143872609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-04-24DOI: 10.1016/j.jmat.2025.101066
Yue Liu , Shuchang Ma , Zhengwei Yang , Duo Wu , Yali Zhao , Maxim Avdeev , Siqi Shi
Machine learning (ML) is widely applied to accelerate materials design and discovery due to its outperforming capability of data analysis and information extraction. However, experimental and computational errors typically lead to emerging data anomalies, harming the performance of ML models. Most currently used anomaly detection methods are purely data-driven, which has limited capability of learning complicated factors in materials data. Here, we propose a domain knowledge-assisted data anomaly detection (DKA-DAD) workflow, where materials domain knowledge is encoded as symbolic rules. Three detection models are designed for evaluating the correctness of individual descriptor value, correlation between descriptors, and similarity between samples, respectively, and one modification model is constructed for comprehensive governance. We construct 180 synthetic datasets by injecting noise into 60 structured materials datasets collected from materials ML studies, to validate its potential utility and applications. DKA-DAD achieves a 12% F1-score improvement in anomaly detection accuracy on synthetic datasets compared to purely data-driven approach and the ML models trained on materials datasets processed through DKA exhibit an average 9.6% improvement in R2 for the property prediction. Our work provides a data anomaly detecting approach under the guidance of materials domain knowledge towards accelerating materials design and discovery based on ML.
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Pub Date : 2025-04-21DOI: 10.1016/j.jmat.2025.101065
Yutao Luo , Tianyang Zheng , Song Liu , Yunfei Liu , Yinong Lyu , Jin Luo
With the development of advanced electronic memory and the advocacy of environmental friendliness, lead-free relaxor ferroelectric capacitors with slim hysteresis loops have received great attention in high power energy storage applications. However, various emerging defects in Sr0.7Bi0.2TiO3 based relaxor ferroelectric films can result in inferior energy storage performance. In this work, Mn doping is utilized to modify the defects caused by the excessive Bi compensation in the Sr0.7Bi0.2TiO3 relaxor ferroelectric thin films. Those Mn doped Sr0.7Bi0.2TiO3 thin films exhibits significantly improved recoverable energy storage density by more than one order of magnitude with an ultrahigh energy storage density (126 J/cm3). By analyzing the change of the chemical environment and using the scanning transmission electron microscopy, we reveal these improved energy storage performances arises from the formation of defect dipoles of Mn2+ at B site with oxygen vacancies, suppressing the volume of oxygen vacancies and titanium vacancies simultaneously, and the slush-like “single domain” structure with fluctuated B-site cation displacements stabilized and confined in a single nano-sized crystal grain. This chemical modification strategy in this work can serve as a regular approach to suppress the defects and improve the energy storage performance in ferroelectric thin films with volatile elements.
{"title":"Ultrahigh energy storage performance via defect engineering in Sr0.7Bi0.2TiO3 lead-free relaxor ferroelectrics","authors":"Yutao Luo , Tianyang Zheng , Song Liu , Yunfei Liu , Yinong Lyu , Jin Luo","doi":"10.1016/j.jmat.2025.101065","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jmat.2025.101065","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>With the development of advanced electronic memory and the advocacy of environmental friendliness, lead-free relaxor ferroelectric capacitors with slim hysteresis loops have received great attention in high power energy storage applications. However, various emerging defects in Sr<sub>0.7</sub>Bi<sub>0.2</sub>TiO<sub>3</sub> based relaxor ferroelectric films can result in inferior energy storage performance. In this work, Mn doping is utilized to modify the defects caused by the excessive Bi compensation in the Sr<sub>0.7</sub>Bi<sub>0.2</sub>TiO<sub>3</sub> relaxor ferroelectric thin films. Those Mn doped Sr<sub>0.7</sub>Bi<sub>0.2</sub>TiO<sub>3</sub> thin films exhibits significantly improved recoverable energy storage density by more than one order of magnitude with an ultrahigh energy storage density (126 J/cm<sup>3</sup>). By analyzing the change of the chemical environment and using the scanning transmission electron microscopy, we reveal these improved energy storage performances arises from the formation of defect dipoles of Mn<sup>2+</sup> at B site with oxygen vacancies, suppressing the volume of oxygen vacancies and titanium vacancies simultaneously, and the slush-like “single domain” structure with fluctuated B-site cation displacements stabilized and confined in a single nano-sized crystal grain. This chemical modification strategy in this work can serve as a regular approach to suppress the defects and improve the energy storage performance in ferroelectric thin films with volatile elements.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16173,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Materiomics","volume":"11 6","pages":"Article 101065"},"PeriodicalIF":8.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143853153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-04-19DOI: 10.1016/j.jmat.2025.101063
Zhijun Jiang , Xueqing Wan , Bin Xu , Jorge Íñiguez-González , Laurent Bellaiche
The electrocaloric (EC) effect characterizes the change in temperature or entropy of a material under the application of an external electric field. Ferroelectric and multiferroic materials have attracted considerable interest due to their potential for efficient solid-state refrigeration in a broad range of applications. In this review, we present recent applications of first-principles-based effective Hamiltonian, second-principles method, and spin Heisenberg model to study the EC effect in ferroelectrics, relaxor ferroelectrics, and multiferroic materials. Specifically, these methods are used to investigate the EC effect in perovskite ferroelectrics Pb(Zr0.4Ti0.6)O3, (Ba0.5Sr0.5)TiO3, PbTiO3, BaTiO3 and PbTiO3/SrTiO3 superlattices, relaxor ferroelectrics Ba(Zr, Ti)O3 and Pb(Mg, Nb)O3, as well as rare-earth-substituted BiFeO3, BiCoO3 and BiFeO3 multiferroics, and Nd-substituted BiFeO3 antiferroelectric solid solutions. Large electrocaloric responses are predicted in some of these compounds. In addition, we review the phenomenological models that can be used to analyze and understand these EC effect results.
{"title":"Electrocaloric effects in ferroelectrics and multiferroics from first principles","authors":"Zhijun Jiang , Xueqing Wan , Bin Xu , Jorge Íñiguez-González , Laurent Bellaiche","doi":"10.1016/j.jmat.2025.101063","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jmat.2025.101063","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The electrocaloric (EC) effect characterizes the change in temperature or entropy of a material under the application of an external electric field. Ferroelectric and multiferroic materials have attracted considerable interest due to their potential for efficient solid-state refrigeration in a broad range of applications. In this review, we present recent applications of first-principles-based effective Hamiltonian, second-principles method, and spin Heisenberg model to study the EC effect in ferroelectrics, relaxor ferroelectrics, and multiferroic materials. Specifically, these methods are used to investigate the EC effect in perovskite ferroelectrics Pb(Zr<sub>0.4</sub>Ti<sub>0.6</sub>)O<sub>3</sub>, (Ba<sub>0.5</sub>Sr<sub>0.5</sub>)TiO<sub>3</sub>, PbTiO<sub>3</sub>, BaTiO<sub>3</sub> and PbTiO<sub>3</sub>/SrTiO<sub>3</sub> superlattices, relaxor ferroelectrics Ba(Zr, Ti)O<sub>3</sub> and Pb(Mg, Nb)O<sub>3</sub>, as well as rare-earth-substituted BiFeO<sub>3</sub>, BiCoO<sub>3</sub> and BiFeO<sub>3</sub> multiferroics, and Nd-substituted BiFeO<sub>3</sub> antiferroelectric solid solutions. Large electrocaloric responses are predicted in some of these compounds. In addition, we review the phenomenological models that can be used to analyze and understand these EC effect results.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16173,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Materiomics","volume":"11 6","pages":"Article 101063"},"PeriodicalIF":8.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143849743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}