Cerium dioxide (CeO2, ceria) is becoming an ubiquitous constituent in catalytic systems for a variety of applications. 2016 sees the 40th anniversary since ceria was first employed by Ford Motor Company as an oxygen storage component in car converters, to become in the years since its inception an irreplaceable component in three-way catalysts (TWCs). Apart from this well-established use, ceria is looming as a catalyst component for a wide range of catalytic applications. For some of these, such as fuel cells, CeO2-based materials have almost reached the market stage, while for some other catalytic reactions, such as reforming processes, photocatalysis, water-gas shift reaction, thermochemical water splitting, and organic reactions, ceria is emerging as a unique material, holding great promise for future market breakthroughs. While much knowledge about the fundamental characteristics of CeO2-based materials has already been acquired, new characterization techniques and powerful theoretical methods are dee...

Fundamentals and Catalytic Applications of CeO2-Based Materials

The demand for dielectric capacitors with higher energy-storage capability is increasing for power electronic devices due to the rapid development of electronic industry. Existing dielectrics for high-energy-storage capacitors and potential new capacitor technologies are reviewed toward realizing these goals. Various dielectric materials with desirable permittivity and dielectric breakdown strength potentially meeting the device requirements are discussed. However, some significant limitations for current dielectrics can be ascribed to their low permittivity, low breakdown strength, and high hysteresis loss, which will decrease their energy density and efficiency. Thus, the implementation of dielectric materials for high-energy-density applications requires the comprehensive understanding of both the materials design and processing. The optimization of high-energy-storage dielectrics will have far-reaching impacts on the sustainable energy and will be an important research topic in the near future.

Homogeneous/Inhomogeneous-Structured Dielectrics and their Energy-Storage Performances.

This critical review presents an overview of the various classes of oxide materials exhibiting fast oxide-ion or proton conductivity for use as solid electrolytes in clean energy applications such as solid oxide fuel cells. Emphasis is placed on the relationship between structural and mechanistic features of the crystalline materials and their ion conduction properties. After describing well-established classes such as fluorite- and perovskite-based oxides, new materials and structure-types are presented. These include a variety of molybdate, gallate, apatite silicate/germanate and niobate systems, many of which contain flexible structural networks, and exhibit different defect properties and transport mechanisms to the conventional materials. It is concluded that the rich chemistry of these important systems provides diverse possibilities for developing superior ionic conductors for use as solid electrolytes in fuel cells and related applications. In most cases, a greater atomic-level understanding of the structures, defects and conduction mechanisms is achieved through a combination of experimental and computational techniques (217 references).

Oxide-ion and proton conducting electrolyte materials for clean energy applications: structural and mechanistic features

The pulsed laser deposition is a new technique for the growth of thin films,which has been attended generally by people recently The physical principle, unique characteristics and the proceeding of the study were introduced briefly In addation, the result of the PtSi nanometer thin film based on silicon prepared by the pulsed laser deposition was describedPULS

Pulsed laser deposition of thin films

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Lead-free piezoceramics – Where to move on?

In this paper, major reduction in sintering time,temperautre and significant improvement over final density of sitnered sample is reported for the microwave sintered nanocrystalline BiFeO3 (BFO) ceramic. Also, different sintering time and temperatures have been used to tailor the grain size and the final density of the resulting BFO ceramics synthesized from phase pure BFO nanoparticles (d ≈10 nm). Microwave sintering resulted in reducing the sintering time substantially (by 1h), and has resulted in submicron sized grains and high resistivity ∼1.8 GΩ-cm. The AC conductivity is seen to follow the Jonscher’s power law behavior, suggesting correlated barrier hopping (CBH) mechanism in the sample. The role of oxygen vacancies at high temperature, due to volatility of bismuth, in dielectric and conductivity behavior is also discussed. Further, the sample displayed dielectric anomaly near magnetic transition temperature (∼180 °C) indicating bearing of magnetic moments on the dielectric properties. Using Impeda...

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Impedance and AC conductivity study of nano crystalline, fine grained multiferroic bismuth ferrite (BiFeO3), synthesized by microwave sintering

Structural, electrical, magnetic and magnetoelectric properties of Fe doped BaTiO3 ceramics

Phase formation, microstructure, electrical and magnetic properties of Mn substituted barium titanate

Extremely small amounts of La and Ga doping on the A- and B-site of BaTiO 3 , respectively, resulting in a solid solution of the type Ba 1−3 x La 2 x Ti 1−3 y Ga 4 y O 3 have been investigated. The present work dwells on the influence of the individual dopants, namely La and Ga, on the dielectric properties of BaTiO 3 . The compositions have been prepared by solid-state reaction. X-ray diffraction (XRD) reveals the presence of tetragonal (P4/mmm) phase. The XRD data has been analyzed using FULLPROF, a Rietveld refinement package. The microstructure have been studied by orientation imaging microscopy (OIM). The compositions have been characterized by dielectric spectroscopy between room temperature and 250 °C. Further, the nature of phase transition has been studied using high temperature XRD. The resulting compounds exhibit high dielectric constant, enhanced diffuseness and low temperature coefficient of capacitance.

Prakash Gopalan

Papers

Impedance and AC conductivity study of nano crystalline, fine grained multiferroic bismuth ferrite (BiFeO3), synthesized by microwave sintering

Structural, electrical, magnetic and magnetoelectric properties of Fe doped BaTiO3 ceramics

Phase formation, microstructure, electrical and magnetic properties of Mn substituted barium titanate

Dielectric properties of A- and B-site doped BaTiO3: Effect of La and Ga

Diffuse phase transition in La and Ga doped barium titanate