Professor Yun Liu

Contacts

Contact email:yliu@rsc.anu.edu.au
Contact phone:+61 2 6125 1124
Link:ANU Researchers profile
ARC Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellow
Professor and Head of the Functional Materials Research Group

Professor Yun Liu received her BSc from the Xian Jiaotong University, China, and then had a four-years working experience in the integrated circuit manufacturing industry as an electronic engineer and processing engineer. She then went back to the same university for postgraduate study and received PhD degree in 1997. She worked at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan for three years and moved to Australia in 2001 by taking a postdoctoral fellow at the Research School of Chemistry (RSC), College of Science, the Australian National University (ANU). She was promoted to Professor in 2015. She was awarded National Fellowships of the AIST (1998-1999) and the STA (1999-2001) (Science and Technology Agency, now renamed as the Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) in Japan. She was also awarded the Australian Research Council (ARC) Queen Elisabeth II (2006-2010), Future (2011-2016) and Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellowship (2021-) in Australia. She is current President of the Australian Neutron Beam User Group (ANBUG) and Chair of the Materials Chemistry Division of the Royal Australian Chemistry Instituted (RACI).

Her expertise is in the field of Materials Chemistry, leading a Functional Materials Research group at the Research School of Chemistry, Collage of Science, ANU. Her research focuses on defect chemistry, local structure and functional properties of condensed matters, using complex materials chemistry to achieve novel functional properties for various applications in electronic technology, energy and environment. She has filed/issued 41 patents and published over 250 publications in top-tier journals, including Nature, Science, Nature Materials etc.

 

Her research interests include:

Functional materials can convert one form of energy to another and thereby achieve an intelligent action as sensors or actuators, which are recognised as a vital area for the growth of the nation's economy. Our work is mainly concentrated on the interaction amongst synthesis, microstructure and polarisation-related properties of functional materials. Applied areas of interest are in sensors, transducers, actuators, microwave components used in telecommunication and information technology, and smart materials and devices for various energy conversion and storage, including hydrogen storage. On the fundamental side, we develop multidisciplinary expertise in wet chemical synthesis, crystal chemistry, defect chemistry, physical property characterisation, and modelling of functional materials.

Research interests

Professor Yun Liu's research is in the field of materials chemistry, focusing on the design and develop novel functional materials, including environmental and energy materials, for uses in electronic and electrical technology, quantum and high-speed conmmunication technology, (bio) sensing technology, catalytic technology for green environment, and energy generation/storage/conversion.

Her strengths lie in

Fundamental research:

  • Local crystal structural analysis of solid-state functional materials via electron/neutron/X-ray diffraction.
  • Chemical bonding and defect design/analysis via various spectral analysis, including neutron scattering.
  • Characterization of polar functional materials: the relation between structure and properties at different length scales
  • Catalyst design for photocatalysis and de/hydrogenation
  • Photovoltaics, multiferroics, dielectrics, anti/ferroelectrics, piezoelectrics, pyroelectrics and electrocalorics.
  • Nano-scale photo-mechano-electronic-electric characterization via AFM/PFM-based platform
  • Nanomaterials, 2D materials and molecular materials: functional characterization and applications.
  • Quantum Materials

Applied research:

  • (Bio) sensors and sensing technology
  • Components and devices for electronic/electrical technology and communication technology
  • Green environment: wastewater treatment
  • Energy: new photovoltaic devices, hydrogen generation and storage, high power energy harvesting and conversion
  • Quantum devices
  • Transducers and actuators

Publication Links:

Google Scholar:http://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=K_SU6G0AAAAJ&hl=en

Group News/Research Highlights

2022.07: Congratulation to Dr Zhen Liu for receiving 2021 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad.

2022.03: Link here to see first structured 3D diffuse diffraction of a ferroelectric.

video: https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0304399122000122-mmc11.mp4

Article: https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1ehGx15DbnYMZw

2021.12: Congratulation to Zhen Liu for receiving his PhD degree and take a postdoc position in SIC, CAS, China.

2021.07: Congratulation to Professor Yun Liu for receiving 2021 ARC Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellow.

https://ministers.dese.gov.au/tudge/australian-laureate-fellowships-impr...

https://www.arc.gov.au/news-publications/media/funding-announcement-kits...

2021.04: Congratulation to Jianmei Liu for receiving her PhD degree and take a researcher position in industry.

2021. 01: Congratulation to Xiaozhou Wang for receiving his PhD degree and take a postdoc position.

2020.12: Congratulation to Dr Teng Lu for him to be awarded the Asia-Oceania Neutron Scattering Association (AONSA) Young Research Fellowship (YRF) in 2021. This YRF program is to support highly talented young scientists with leadership potential in the Asia-Oceania region, helping them to develop their career and expertise in neutron science and technology.

2020.11: Congratulation to Miss Desy Prihardini for receiving the first GPG Australia Scholarship to study hydrogen stroage using liquid organic carriers. The story is here: https://energy.anu.edu.au/study/student-profiles/first-gpg-australia-hydrogen-economy-scholar-study-storage-options.

2019.12: Congratulation to Mac Mai for receiving his PhD degree and move to the industry.

2019.08: Congratulation to Bethany McBride for receiving her PhD degree. She will work in the Australian gvoernment organisaiton.

2019.04: Congratulation to Teng Lu for receiving 2019 RSC director's PhD Thesis Award.

2019.03: Congratulation to Michael Brennan (Liu's group) for receiving 2019 AINSE Top-up Honours Scholarship (AINSE: The Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering) to support his work at the ANSTO (Australian Neutron Science and Technology Organisation).

2018.07: Congratulation to Teng Lu for receiving his PhD degree. Teng will continualy work at the ANU as a postdoc.

2018.01:Congratulation to Qingbo Sun for receiving 2017 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad.

2018.01: Congratulation to Dr Dehong Yu (ANSTO, our close collabrator), Teng Lu (our group) and Dr Norman Booth (ANSTO) for their success on commissioning in situ light irradiation experiments on PELICAN—cold-neutron time-of-flight spectrometer at the ANSTO. it will signficantly estend Pelican's capabilities into the field of light induced polymerisation, catalyst, or even magnetism.

2017.12: Congratulation to Qingbo Sun for receiving his PhD degree. Qingbo will contnuely work at the ANU as a postdoc.

2017.09: Congratulation to Wen Dong for receiving his PhD degree. Wen will head to UK as a postdoc at the University of Warwick.

2017. 09: Congratualtion to Bethany McBride to be a runner, the first time ever from the RSC, in the ANU 3 Minute-Thesis Competition Final 2017. See the report on the website:

http://chemistry.anu.edu.au/news-events/bethany-mcbride-phd-three-minute...

2017.01: Congratulation to Qingbo Sun and David Cortie for their papers published in recent Advanced Materials.

http://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/chemists-can-rapidly-purify-wastewat...

2016.12: Congratulation to Bethany McBride to be a Winner of popular choice vote for best presentation in one symposium of the RSC Celebration of HDR Chemistry.

2016.12: Congratulation to Bethany McBride to win 2016 Director's PhD student award.

2016.12: Congratulation to Bethany McBride as 1 of 2 people selected from 32 Australian applicants to attend the 37th Berlin School on Neutron Scattering 2017.

2016.09: Congratulation to Prof Yun Liu to be awarded a big renewable energy research program as one of the ANU team members.

http://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/8-million-for-anu-renewable-energy-r...

2016.02: Congratulation to Jian Wang on receiving his PhD degree. Jian is currently working at US-based FEI Company in Canberra as an senior engineer.

2016.01: Congratulation for Dr Wanbiao Hu on receiving the fellowship from the Thousand Talents Plan program (for Young Professionals), China, 2016. He is a full professor at Yunnan University, China

2016.01: ANU successfully hosted the Australia-China Joint Symposium on Colossal Permittvity Materials and Applications in Energy Storage.

2015. 09: Congratulation to Prof Ray Withers for his paper published in recent Nature Materials.

http://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/building-better-materials-one-atom-a...

http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nmat4390.html

2015.06: Two Postdocs Positions Open now (close date: 19th July, 2015)

The Australian National University currently opens two postdoc positions (in my group) for the applications. One is a position for the people have a strong theoretical simulation and/or neutron scattering experience on functional materials, especially oxides. (http://jobs.anu.edu.au/cw/en/job/494046/anuansto-joint-postdoctoral-fellow).

Another is a position supported by the industry, which requires the potential candidate has strong background in dielectric materials, LTCCs and MLCCs. (http://jobs.anu.edu.au/cw/en/job/497067/postdoctoral-fellow).

2015.03: Fenghua invests to the ANU for hte development of single layered ceramic capacitors

2014.12: Congratulation to Bethany McBride on receiving a University Medal in Chemistry for 2014.

2014.10: ANU successfully hosted the RACI/MA Materials Chemistry Symposium at ANU Kioloa Campus.

2014. 05: Congratulation to Qian (Cheney) Li for receiving 2013 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad.

2014.03: Congratulation to Bethany McBride for receiving the AINSE Honours Scholarship to support her research activity at the ANSTO in 2014.

2013. 12: Congratulation to Qian (Cheney) Li for receiving his PhD degree. Cheney has already got an offer from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory ( US) and he will work at the ORNL as a postdoctoral Research Fellow.

2013.08: publication in " Nature Materials", entitled "Electron-pinned defect-dipoles for high-performance colossal permittivity materials". info: Nature Materials: http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nmat3691.html; Phys.org: New material holds big energy hope

Current Group Memebers:

Dr Zejun Zhang

Dr Cheng Yang

Dr Teng Lu (Postdoc 2018-2021, Research Fellow, 2022-)

Dr Hua Chen

Mr Adnan Ahmad (PhD 2023-)

Miss Hao Le Thi (PhD, 2023-)

Mr Wenzhong Ji (PhD, 2022-)

Mr Xiangtao Liu (Master, 2022-)

Mr Jianchu Liu (Master, 2021-)

Mr Preetham Permude (PhD, 2021-)

Mr Chengzhen Yin (PhD, 2020-)

Mr Farzin Nekouei (PhD, 2019-)

Miss Tamsyn Lovass (Honours Student, 2023-)

Miss Prisma Ardaneswari Khairina (Visiting scholar, 2023, Future Research Talent (FRT) scholars from Indonesia)

Mr Saket Vardhan (Visiting scholar, 2023, Future Research Talent (FRT) scholars from India)

Miss Nishanthini Sampath (Visiting scholar, 2023, Future Research Talent (FRT) scholars from India)

Miss Sonja Frost (Visiting Scholar, 2022-) from the ADFA, UNSW Canberra

Dr Krishna Ghose (Visitor, 2021-) from the ADFA, UNSW Canberra

Emerius Professor Ray Withers

Previous Group Members:

Staff

Dr Lasse Noren (Research Officer -2016)

Mr Paris Stefanopoulos (Research Assitant, 2019-2020)

Postdoctoral Fellows

Dr Chungguang Tang (ANU GC research Fellow, 2019-2022)

Dr Qingbo Sun (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2017-2021)

Dr Narendirakumar (Naren) Narayanan (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2017-2021)

Dr Dehong Chen (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2016-2018), currently RMIT.

Dr David Cortie (ANU/ANSTO Joint Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2016-2017), currently Research Fellow at the University of of wollongong.

Dr. Wanbiao Hu (Postdoctoral ResearchFellow, 2011-2016), Currently Professsor at the Yunnan University, China ( the acceptor of 1000Plan Professorship for Young Talents)

Dr Adam Berlie (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2014-2015), ISIS-RIKEN Instrument Scientist, UK

Dr. Chunming Wang (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2011-2013). Currently Assoicate Professor in Shangdong University.

Dr. Yuanlie Yu (Visiting Fellow from CAM, ANU, 2010-2013).

Dr Yiping Guo ( Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2009-Sept 2010). He is currently holding a Professor position in Shanghai Jiaotong University)

Dr. Yinghong Xiao (Endeavour Cheung Kong Research Fellow, 2009). She is currently professor at the Nanjing Normal University.

Dr. Jinbao Xu (Endeavour Research Fellow and ANU postdoctoal research Fellow, 2008-2009). He is a Senior Research Fellow in Xinjiang Institute of Physics, CAS (Awarded "100 Talents program" in China)

Visiting Fellows

A/professor Lingling Wei (Visiting Fellow, 2017-2018)

Mr. Ye Tian (Visiting Scholar, 2016-2017)

A/Prof Zhuxi Li (Visiting fellow, 2016-2017), A/Professof in Norhtwest UNiversity, China (2016-2017).

Prof Zhifu Liu, Shanghia Insitute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Science, 2016.

Mr. Qadeer Awan (Visiting Scholar, 2014-2015), Pakstain

Prof Huarong Zeng, Shanghia Insitute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Science, 2014.

Prof. Changming Li, (Craig Lecturer), 2011. China

A/Prof. Kai Chen (Dec.2011-Dec 2012).

Prof. Hui Yang (2009-2010). CHina

Graduated Students

Miss Tamsyn Lovass (undergraduate student, 2021-2022)

Dr Lilit Jacob (Visiting Scholar, 2017-2022) from the ADFA, UNSW Canberra, joint supervised.

Miss Desy Prihardini (Master student ,2020-2021)

Mr Qimeng CHen (Master student in Energy, 2020-2021)

Mr Mradul Dhakar (Master student in enerygy, joint supervisor, 2020-2021)

Dr. Zhen Liu (PhD Student, 2017-2021)

Dr. Jianmei Li (PhD Student, 2017-2021)

Dr. Xiaozhou Wang (PhD Student, 2016-2021)

Dr Haoxin (Mac) Mai (PhD Student, 2016-2019)

Dr Bethany McBride (PhD Student, 2015-2019), Department of Defence, Australia

Dr Longhai Yang (Visiting Scholar, 2017-2018)

Mr.Christopher Zhang (Undergraduate student, 2017-2018)

Mr. Masashige Morishita (visiting Scholar, exchanging program, Japan, 2017-2018)

Dr Teng Lu (PhD Student, 2014-2018), currently Postdoc at the ANU

Dr Weng Dong (PhD Cadidate, 2013-2017), Currently postdoc at University of Warwick, UK

Dr Qingbo Sun (PhD cadidate, 2014-2017), Currently postdoc at the ANU

Miss Wenjun Wang (undergraduate student, 2016).

Miss Joanna Chu (Honours Student, 2016-2017), 1st class

Ms. Amanda Snashell (PhD candidate), currently working at the ANU

Mr. Yoke Yeong Fung (Honours Student, 2015-2016), 1st class

Mr. Jonathon Lieschke (Honours Student, 2015), 1st class

Mr. Benjamen Wang (PhB student, 2015)

Dr Kenny Lau (PhD candidate, 2011-2016), Watercare Services, NewZealand.

Dr. Jian Wang (2010-2014), Senior Engineer in Fei in Norway

Miss Tyler Olney (Summar Scholar, 2014/2015)

Miss Bethany McBride (Honours Student, 2014),1st class, University Medal.

Dr. Qian (Cheney) Li (2010-2013), now working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Oak Ridge National laboratory, USA (2013-2017), move to the Argonne National Laboratory (2017-)

Mr. Teng Lu (honours Student, 2013), 1st class

Dr. Jason Schiemer (Joint PhD student, 2009-2012, now working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in University of Canbridge, UK).

Groups

Projects

  • Peng, J, Kremer, F, Walter, D et al. 2022, 'Centimetre-scale perovskite solar cells with fill factors of more than 86 per cent', Nature, vol. 601, no. 7894, pp. 573-578.
  • Das, S, Nandi, S, Marquez, C et al. 2022, 'Physical Origin of Negative Differential Resistance in V3O5 and Its Application as a Solid-State Oscillator', Advanced Materials, vol. 35, no. 8, p. 2208477.
  • Nekouei, F, Wen, X, Zheng, Z et al. 2022, 'InOOH-mediated intergrown heterojunctions for enhanced photocatalytic Performance: Assembly and interfacial charge carrier transferring', Chemical Engineering Journal, vol. 442, no. 2.
  • Liu, B, Torres Alvarez, J, Taheri, M et al. 2022, 'Dual-Ion Flux Management for Stable High Areal Capacity Lithium-Sulfur Batteries', Advanced Energy Materials, vol. 12, no. 10, pp. 1-13.
  • Peng, J, Walter, D, Ren, Y et al. 2021, 'Nanoscale localized contacts for high fill factors in polymer-passivated perovskite solar cells', Science, vol. 371, no. 6527, pp. 390-395.
  • Lu, H, Tournet, J, Dastafkan, K et al. 2021, 'Noble-Metal-Free Multicomponent Nanointegration for Sustainable Energy Conversion', Chemical Reviews, vol. 121, no. 17, pp. 10271ââ¬â10366.
  • Duong, T, Pham, H, Yin, Y et al. 2021, 'Efficient and stable wide bandgap perovskite solar cells through surface passivation with long alkyl chain organic cations', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, vol. 9, no. 34, pp. 18454ââ¬â18465.
  • Mai, H, Lu, T, Sun, Q et al. 2021, 'Defect engineering for creating and enhancing bulk photovoltaic effect in centrosymmetric materials', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, vol. 9, no. 22, pp. 13182-13191.
  • Lu, T, Cortie, D, Li, Z et al. 2021, 'Role of A-Site Molecular Ions in the Polar Functionality of Metal-Organic Framework Perovskites', Chemistry of Materials, vol. 33, no. 24, pp. 9666-9676.
  • Jiang, M, Hu, W, Jacob, L et al. 2021, 'Hole-pinned defect clusters for a large dielectric constant up to GHz in Zinc and niobium codoped rutile SnO2', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, vol. 13, no. 45, pp. 54124-54132.
  • Duong, T, Pham, H, Kho, T et al. 2020, 'High Efficiency Perovskite-Silicon Tandem Solar Cells: Effect of Surface Coating versus Bulk Incorporation of 2D Perovskite', Advanced Energy Materials, vol. 10, no. 9, pp. 1-15.
  • Sun, Q, Huston, L, Tang, C et al. 2020, 'Chemical Synthesis and High-Pressure Reaction of Nb5+ Monodoped Rutile TiO2 Nanocrystals', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 124, no. 23, pp. 12808-12815.
  • MAHMUD, M, Duong, T, Yin, Y et al. 2020, 'In Situ Formation of Mixedâ€?Dimensional Surface Passivation Layers in Perovskite Solar Cells with Dualâ€?Isomer Alkylammonium Cations', Nano Micro Small, vol. 16, no. 49, pp. 1-10.
  • Liu, Z, Lu, T, Xue, F et al. 2020, 'Lead-free (Ag,K)NbO3 materials for high-performance explosive energy conversion', Science Advances, vol. 6, no. 21, pp. 1-9.
  • Narayanan, N, Lou, Q, Rawal, A et al. 2020, 'Defect structure and property consequence when small Li+ ions meet BaTiO3', Physical Review Materials, vol. 4, no. 8, pp. 1-7.
  • Liu, B, Taheri, M, Torres Alvarez, J et al. 2020, 'Janus Conductive/Insulating Microporous Ion-Sieving Membranes for Stable Li-S Batteries', ACS Nano, vol. 14, no. 10, pp. 13852-13864.
  • Khan, A, Lu, T, Ma, W et al. 2020, 'Tunable Optoelectronic Properties of WS2 by Local Strain Engineering and Folding', Advanced Electronic Materials, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 1-8.
  • Mai, H, Lu, T, Sun, Q et al 2020, 'High performance bulk photovoltaics in narrow bandgap centrosymmetric ultrathin films', Materials Horizons, 7, 898–904.
  • Li, W, Liu, Z, Zhang, F et al 2019, 'Colossal permittivity of (Li, Nb) co-doped TiO2 ceramics', Ceramics International, vol. 45, no. 9, pp. 11920-11926.
  • Sun, Q, Zhang, S, Cortie, D et al. 2019, 'Highly Efficient Visible Light Catalysts Driven by Ti3+-V-O-2Ti(4+)-N3- Defect Clusters', ChemNanoMat, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 169-174.
  • Cortie, D, Casillas-Garcia, G, Squires, A et al 2019, 'Spin-wave propagation in alpha-Fe2O3 nanorods: the effect of confinement and disorder', Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, vol. 31, no. 18, pp. 1-13.
  • Raj, V, Lu, T, Lockrey, M et al. 2019, 'Introduction of TiO2 in CuI for Its Improved Performance as a p-Type Transparent Conductor', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, vol. 11, no. 27, pp. 24254-24263.
  • Dong, W, Cortie, D, Lu, T et al 2019, 'Collective nonlinear electric polarization: Via defect-driven local symmetry breaking', Materials Horizons, vol. 6, no. 8, pp. 1717-1725.
  • Lou, Q, Zeng, J, Man, Z et al 2019, 'The effect of grain boundary on the visible light absorption of BaTi1-x[Ni1/2Nb1/2](x)O3-delta ferroelectric ceramics', Journal of the American Ceramic Society, vol. 102, no. 12, pp. 7405-7413.
  • Lu, T, Tian, Y, Studer, A et al. 2019, 'Symmetry-mode analysis for intuitive observation of structure-property relationships in the lead-free antiferroelectric (1-x)AgNbO3-xLiTaO3', IUCrJ, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 740-750.
  • Sun, Q, Zhang, S, Cortie, D et al. 2019, 'Highly Efficient Visible Light Catalysts Driven by Ti3+-VO-2Ti4+-N3− Defect Clusters', ChemNanoMat, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 169-174.
  • Awan, M, Ahmad, J, Sun, Q et al 2018, 'Structure, dielectric and ferroelectric properties of lead-free (Ba,Ca)(Ti,Zr)O3-xBiErO3 piezoelectric ceramics', Ceramics International, vol. 44, no. 6, pp. 6872-6877pp.
  • Awan, M, Ahmad, J, Berlie, A et al 2018, 'Influence of oxidation number of manganese on magnetic properties of lead free piezoelectric BNT ceramics', Digest Journal of Nanomaterials and Biostructures, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 67-75pp.
  • Awan, M, Ahmad, J, Norén, L et al 2018, 'Structure, dielectric and ferroelectric properties of lead free (K,Na)(Nb)O3-xBiErO3 piezoelectric ceramics', Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, vol. 29, no. 9, pp. 7142-7151pp.
  • McBride, B, Lieschke, J, Berlie, A et al. 2018, 'Study of the B -site ion behaviour in the multiferroic perovskite bismuth iron chromium oxide', Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 123, no. 15, pp. 10pp.
  • Liu, Z, Peng, P, Ren, W et al 2018, 'High performance Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3-BiAlO3-K0.5Na0.5NbO3 lead-free pyroelectric ceramics for thermal detectors', Applied Physics Letters, vol. 112, no. 14, pp. 1-5.
  • Mai, H, Lu, T, Li, Q et al. 2018, 'Above-Band Gap Photoinduced Stabilization of Engineered Ferroelectric Domains', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, vol. 10, no. 15, pp. 12781-12789.
  • Liu, K, Liu, Y, Sun, Y et al 2018, 'A General Strategy to Achieve Colossal Permittivity and Low Dielectric Loss Through Constructing Insulator/Semiconductor/Insulator Multilayer Structures', Journal of Low Temperature Physics, vol. 192, no. 5-6, pp. 346-358pp.
  • Awan , Q, Ahmad, J, Berlie, A et al. 2018, 'The upper Manganese doping limit and its effects on physical properties of lead-free Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3 ceramics', Ceramics International, vol. 44, no. 11, pp. 12767-12773pp.
  • Gao, X, Liu, G, Zhu, Y et al. 2018, 'Earth-abundant transition metal oxides with extraordinary reversible oxygen exchange capacity for efficient thermochemical synthesis of solar fuels', Nano Energy, vol. 50, pp. 347-358pp.
  • Mai, H, Lu, T, Li, Q et al. 2018, 'Photovoltaic Effect of a Ferroelectric-Luminescent Heterostructure under Infrared Light Illumination', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, vol. 10, no. 35, pp. 29786-29794.
  • Liu, Z, Lu, T, Ye, J et al. 2018, 'Antiferroelectrics for Energy Storage Applications: a Review', Advanced Materials Technologies, vol. 3, no. 9, pp. 1-21.
  • Liu, X, Zhang, F, Long, P et al. 2018, 'Anomalous Photovoltaic Effect in Centrosymmetric Ferroelastic BiVO4', Advanced Materials, vol. 30, no. 44, pp. 1-8.
  • Ghasemian, M, Rawal, A, Liu, Y et al 2018, 'Approaching Piezoelectric Response of Pb-Piezoelectrics in Hydrothermally Synthesized Bi-0.5(Na1-xKx)(0.5)TiO3 Nanotubes', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, vol. 10, no. 24, pp. 20816-20825pp.
  • Narayanan, N, Senyshyn, A, Mikhailova, D et al. 2018, 'Magnetic structure and spin correlations in magnetoelectric honeycomb Mn4Ta2O9', Physical Review B, vol. 98, pp. 15pp.
  • Li, Q, Lu, T, Schiemer, J et al 2018, 'Giant thermally-enhanced electrostriction and polar surface phase in La2Mo2O9 oxygen ion conductors', Physical Review Materials, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 7pp.
  • Li, Q, Danilkin, S, Deng, G et al. 2018, 'Soft phonon modes and diffuse scattering in Pb(In1/2Nb1/2)O3-Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-PbTiO3 relaxor ferroelectrics', Journal of Materiomics, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 345-352.
  • Whittle, T, Brant, W, Withers, R et al. 2018, 'Novel insight into the structure and properties of lead-free dielectric Sr3TiNb4O15', Journal of Materials Chemistry C: materials for optical and electronic devices, vol. 6, no. 33, pp. 8890-8896.
  • Whittle, T, Brant, W, Withers, R et al. 2018, 'Correction: Novel insight into the structure and properties of lead-free dielectric Sr3TiNb4O15', Journal of Materials Chemistry C: materials for optical and electronic devices, vol. 6, no. 33, pp. 1pp.
  • Liu, Z, Bosman, M, Li, N et al 2018, 'Photoactivity and Stability Co-Enhancement: When Localized Plasmons Meet Oxygen Vacancies in MgO', Small, vol. 14, no. 48, pp. 1-9.
  • Sun, Q, Huston, L, Frankcombe, T et al 2017, 'Trans-Regime Structural Transition of (In3++Nb5+) Co-Doped Anatase TiO2 Nanocrystals under High Pressure', Crystal Growth & Design, vol. 17, no. 5, pp. 2529-2535pp.
  • Dong, W, Hu, W, Frankcombe, T et al. 2017, 'Colossal permittivity with ultralow dielectric loss in In+Ta co-doped rutile TiO2', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, vol. 5, no. 11, pp. 5436-5441pp.
  • Huang, D, Liu, Z, Li, Y et al 2017, 'Colossal permittivity and dielectric relaxation of (Li, In) Co-doped ZnO ceramics', Journal of Alloys and Compounds, vol. 698, pp. 200-206pp.
  • Sun, Q, Cortie, D, Zhang, S et al. 2017, 'The Formation of Defect-Pairs for Highly Efficient Visible-Light Catalysts', Advanced Materials, vol. 29, no. 11, pp. -.
  • Sun, Q, Zheng, C, Huston, L et al. 2017, 'Bimetallic ions codoped nanocrystals: doping mechanism, defect formation, and associated structural transition.', Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, vol. 8, no. 14, pp. 3249-3255pp.
  • Liu, Z, Ren, W, Nie, H et al 2017, 'Pressure driven depolarization behavior of Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3 based lead-free ceramics', Applied Physics Letters, vol. 110, no. 21, pp. 1-4pp.
  • Yu, D, Avdeev, M, SUN, D et al. 2017, 'Understanding the Unusual Response to High Pressure in KBe2BO3F2', Scientific Reports, vol. 7, pp. 4027-4027.
  • Peng, J, Wu, Y, Ye, W et al. 2017, 'Interface passivation using ultrathin polymer–fullerene films for high-efficiency perovskite solar cells with negligible hysteresis', Energy and Environmental Science, vol. 10, no. 8, pp. 1792-1800pp..
  • Sun, Q, McBride, B & Liu, Y 2017, '(N3-, M5+) Co-Doping Strategies for the Development of TiO2-Based Visible Light Catalysts', Research and Reviews in Electrochemistry, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 12pp.
  • Dong, W, Chen, D, Hu, W et al 2017, 'Colossal permittivity behavior and its origin in rutile (Mg1/3Ta2/3)xTi1-xO2', Scientific Reports, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. -.
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