Syed Hamza Safeer, Muhammad Hassan Sajjad, Nawazish A. Khan
{"title":"Effects of cobalt nanoparticles addition in Cu0.5Tl0.5-1223 superconductor composite","authors":"Syed Hamza Safeer, Muhammad Hassan Sajjad, Nawazish A. Khan","doi":"10.1007/s10832-023-00313-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10832-023-00313-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Cobalt nanoparticles added Co<sub>x</sub>/Cu<sub>0.5</sub>Tl<sub>0.5</sub>Ba<sub>2</sub>Ca<sub>2</sub>Cu<sub>3</sub>O<sub>10-δ</sub> superconducting composites were synthesized by solid-state reaction method and their superconducting properties were reported. The samples exhibit an orthorhombic crystal structure and the volume of the unit cell decreases with the addition of cobalt nanoparticles, indicating that Co<sup>+3</sup> ion diffuses from the intergranular region into the unit cells. The suppression of the onset of superconductivity and magnitude of diamagnetism is observed in AC-susceptibility measurements showing magnetic scattering from the charged particles induced by doped Co<sup>+3</sup> atoms into the unit cell. The doping of unit cells with Cobalt nanoparticles from the inter-grain regions is confirmed by a shift in the peak position and intensity of various oxygen modes in FTIR absorption measurements. Excess conductivity analysis of conductivity data has shown an increase in the coherence length along the c-axis, the Fermi velocity of the carriers, and the energy required to break the Cooper-pairs with the addition of Co nanoparticles. The observed increase in the values of these parameters is likely associated with an increase in the density of charge carriers in the conducting copper oxide planes. It is suggested to be arising from the magnetic scattering of Co<sup>+3</sup> ions diffusing from inter-grain sites in the unit cell. The weak pinning is also witnessed in form of an increase in the London penetration depth and Ginzburg Landau (GL) parameter κ in Co<sup>+3</sup> enriched samples.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":625,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Electroceramics","volume":"50 4","pages":"112 - 120"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4561681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Saiwei Luan, Pengfei Wang, Lei Zhang, Yanmei He, Xiong Huang, Gang Jian, Cuicui Liu, Shuhui Yu, Rong Sun, Xiuhua Cao, Zhenxiao Fu
{"title":"Atmospherically hydrothermal assisted solid-state reaction synthesis of ultrafine BaTiO3 powder with high tetragonality","authors":"Saiwei Luan, Pengfei Wang, Lei Zhang, Yanmei He, Xiong Huang, Gang Jian, Cuicui Liu, Shuhui Yu, Rong Sun, Xiuhua Cao, Zhenxiao Fu","doi":"10.1007/s10832-023-00308-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10832-023-00308-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Ultrafine ceramic powders with high tetragonality are the fundamental for the multi-layer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs). In this study, an efficient method of atmospherically hydrothermal assisted solid-state synthesis for ultrafine BaTiO<sub>3</sub> particles is presented. The BaTiO<sub>3</sub> nanopowders with homogeneous distribution, a mean particle size ~ 260 nm and high tetragonality of 1.0095 were obtained by at the optimal parameters of hydrothermal time of 6 h, Ba(OH)<sub>2</sub>·8H<sub>2</sub>O/BaCO<sub>3</sub> = 0.25/0.75 and calcination temperature of 1000 <sup>o</sup>C. XRD and HRTEM analyses revealed a “core-shell” structure of TiO<sub>2</sub>@BaTiO<sub>3</sub> formed in the first-step hydrothermal process, which reduces the diffusion distance between BaCO<sub>3</sub> and TiO<sub>2</sub>, resulting in a lower calcination temperature at the second-step solid-state reaction. Compared with pure hydrothermal and solid-state reaction processes, the atmospherically hydrothermal assisted solid-state synthesis in this study shows larger ability for improving the particle size distribution and the tetragonality, reducing defects of BaTiO<sub>3</sub> particles. In particular, the grain size, sintering density, and dielectric constant at the Curie temperature of BaTiO<sub>3</sub> ceramics are 1.93 μm, 98%, and 7066, respectively. In the solid-state reaction stage, the lattice diffusion distance from BaO to TiO<sub>2</sub> tends to decrease due to the formation of BaTiO<sub>3</sub> shells, thus, high tetragonal and relatively small particle size of BaTiO<sub>3</sub> powder was synthesized. This work presents a method for preparing ultrafine BaTiO<sub>3</sub> powders with large tetragonality for MLCCs.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":625,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Electroceramics","volume":"50 4","pages":"97 - 111"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10832-023-00308-y.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4529644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Structural, dielectric and electrical properties of Ba/Zr modified BiFeO3 electroceramics","authors":"N. P. Samantray, B. B. Arya, R. N. P. Choudhary","doi":"10.1007/s10832-023-00307-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10832-023-00307-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The preliminary structural and frequency-temperature dependence of dielectric and electrical characteristics of Ba/Zr modified Bismuth ferrite(BiFeO<sub>3</sub>) i.e.(Bi<sub>1-x</sub>Ba<sub>x</sub>)(Fe<sub>1-x</sub>Zr<sub>x</sub>)O<sub>3</sub>; x = 0.05, 0.1, 0.15, 0.20 at room temperature have been reported. The samples are produced in a perovskite rhombohedral structure, according to the X-ray diffraction pattern and analysis of room temperature XRD data. The SEM photographs are useful for the micro-structural view of the synthesized compounds. Dielectric and electrical characteristics across a wide temperature range 25 °C to 300 °C at different frequencies ranging from 1 kHz to 1 MHz have provided many important results including dielectric dispersion, conduction mechanism, relaxation process and ferroelectricity of the prepared samples. The contributions of grains and grain boundaries towards the net resistance and capacitance of the samples are found from the Nyquist plots. The types of conduction mechanism have been studied from ac-conductivity study of the samples. The Ohmic behaviour is verified by the J–E characteristics of the prepared samples, which have a slope closer to 1. The electrical polarization study through hysteresis loops at room temperature confirms the ferroelectric behavior of the studied materials. According to the experimental results obtained here, the synthesized materials could be beneficial as electronic components in the electronic industries.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":625,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Electroceramics","volume":"50 3","pages":"82 - 96"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10832-023-00307-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4906149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emine Elif Ocakçı, Vedat Sarıboğa, Hasan Özdemir, Tuba Gürkaynak Altınçekiç, M. A. Faruk Öksüzömer
{"title":"Ca, Sr or Mg-doped Ceria Electrolytes Prepared by Citrate-Nitrate Combustion Synthesis: Effect of Doping Concentration","authors":"Emine Elif Ocakçı, Vedat Sarıboğa, Hasan Özdemir, Tuba Gürkaynak Altınçekiç, M. A. Faruk Öksüzömer","doi":"10.1007/s10832-023-00306-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10832-023-00306-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this work, it was aimed to synthesize and characterize rare earth metal-free cerium-based electrolytes that might be used in solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) by doping calcium, strontium, or magnesium to CeO<sub>2</sub>. For this purpose, CeO<sub>2</sub>, Ca<sub>x</sub>Ce<sub>(1-x)</sub>O<sub>(2−δ)</sub> (0.16 ≤ x ≤ 0.24), Sr<sub>x</sub>Ce<sub>(1-x)</sub>O<sub>(2−δ)</sub> (0.02 ≤ x ≤ 0.08) and Mg<sub>x</sub>Ce<sub>(1-x)</sub>O<sub>(2−δ)</sub> (0.07 ≤ x ≤ 0.13) were prepared by using citrate-nitrate combustion method. The solubility limits, microstructural and physical properties of the samples were characterized with XRD, SEM, TG-DTA and impedance analysis. It was found that all samples were in fluorite structure similar to the undoped ceria. The solubility limits of Ca<sup>2+</sup>, Sr<sup>2+</sup> and Mg<sup>2+</sup> were 21%, 6% and 12% (by mole) respectively based on XRD analysis results. The relative densities of sintered pellets at 1400 °C were more than 90%. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy analysis, in which the ionic conductivities of the samples were measured, revealed that the Ca<sub>0.2</sub>Ce<sub>0.8</sub>O<sub>2-δ</sub> (CCO20) sample sintered at 1400 °C showed the highest ionic conductivity value of 4.47 x10<sup>-2</sup> S.cm<sup>−1</sup> at 800 °C. It was determined that the O<sup>2-</sup> ion conductivity decreased with the order of Ca<sup>2+</sup> ≈ Sr<sup>2+</sup> >> Mg<sup>2+</sup>. Conductivities increased with increasing dopant ratio, reached a maximum below the ratios of solubility limits, and then decreased. The obtained results showed that Ca or Sr doped electrolytes prepared by the citrate-nitrate method can show ionic conductivities close to the state-of-the-art Sm doped Ceria electrolytes. It has been determined that Mg doping is quite ineffective.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":625,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Electroceramics","volume":"50 3","pages":"67 - 81"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10832-023-00306-0.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4653422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Flexible synthesis of CuCo2O4 hexagonal nanocrystal by melting salt modified combustion method as high-performance anode materials for lithium-ion batteries","authors":"Yun Yang, Jialin Gong, Dongming Cai, Yuxi Li, Yong Sun, Wei Wang, Chuanqi Feng","doi":"10.1007/s10832-023-00305-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10832-023-00305-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The preparation of CuCo<sub>2</sub>O<sub>4</sub> material with a suitable phase structure and grain size can improve its lithium storage performance. In this paper, CuCo<sub>2</sub>O<sub>4</sub> hexagonal nanocrystal were successfully obtained by molten salt modified urea combustion method. Compared with the traditional high temperature solid state methods such as combustion method, rheological phase method and precipitation method, this method maintains the advantage of simple operation, and the particle size of the sample is smaller. The effect of heat treatment temperature on the lithium storage performance of CuCo<sub>2</sub>O<sub>4</sub> was also studied systematically in this paper. The result shows that 800 ℃ is the best heat treatment temperature for CuCo<sub>2</sub>O<sub>4</sub>, and the sample synthesized by the molten salt urea combustion method exhibited the best electrochemical properties with a specific capacity of 705 mA h g<sup>-1</sup> after 100 cycles under a constant current of 200 mA g<sup>-1</sup> in the voltage range of 0.01-3 V. Therefore, a new strategy of high temperature solid state preparation has been developed in this paper, and the CuCo<sub>2</sub>O<sub>4</sub> synthesized by this method is a promising anode material for lithium ion battery application.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":625,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Electroceramics","volume":"50 3","pages":"57 - 66"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4349592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Salma Aman, Naseeb Ahmad, Muhammad Bilal Tahir, Soumaya Gouadria, H. A. Alburaih, Muhammad Zeshan, Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Farid
{"title":"Enhanced electrical and magnetic properties of samarium substituted spinel ferrites","authors":"Salma Aman, Naseeb Ahmad, Muhammad Bilal Tahir, Soumaya Gouadria, H. A. Alburaih, Muhammad Zeshan, Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Farid","doi":"10.1007/s10832-023-00304-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10832-023-00304-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The present study aimed to verify the experimentally obtained results by exploring the several properties of the material (i.e. magnetic, structural, and direct current (DC)-electrical properties). Trivalent rare-earth element samarium (Sm<sup>3+</sup>)doped barium spinel ferrites BaSm<sub>x</sub>Fe<sub>2−x</sub>O<sub>4</sub> for compositions with the following x values: 0, 0.025, 0.05, 0.075, and 0.1 were subjected to the sol-gel procedure for processing. All of the samples, according to X-ray diffraction (XRD) investigation, developed a structure with a single phase that is cubic. The structural parameters, including lattice constants, crystalline size (<i>nm</i>), densities (bulk and X-ray), and unit-cell volume, were observed. The semiconductor natureof the prepared materials was demonstrated by the use of two-probe tests to estimate DC resistivity (<i>ρ</i><sub><i>dc</i></sub>), Curie temperature (T<sub>c</sub>). Ferromagnetic materials’ properties resemble remenance (M<sub>r</sub>), coercivity (H<sub>c</sub>), saturation magnetization (M<sub>s</sub>), and changes that resulted from the insertion of Sm<sup>3+</sup> was injected in the M-H condition (magnetization-applied field) loops are assigned to each individual nanoparticle. It’s been discovered that the evolution of the anisotropic constant is kind of analogous to those of the coercivity. The current synthesized barium ferrites have been confirmed to really be useful as in manufacturing of high-density magnetic storage applications.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":625,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Electroceramics","volume":"50 2","pages":"50 - 56"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"5002544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effects of ZBS addition on crystallization, microstructure and dielectric properties of low temperature co-fired Mg2SiO4-CaTiO3 ceramics","authors":"Cong Tang, Yu Xin, Caixia Zhang, Jingang Tan, Zugao Yu, Chunchun Wu, Jianxi Tong, Fancheng Meng","doi":"10.1007/s10832-023-00303-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10832-023-00303-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The 0.9Mg<sub>2</sub>SiO<sub>4</sub>-0.1CaTiO<sub>3</sub> (MSCT) ceramics with 60ZnO-20B<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>-20SiO<sub>2</sub> glass (ZBS) and LiF compound additives were prepared by solid-state reaction method. The effects of different ZBS contents on the phase, densification temperature, surface morphology and dielectric properties of MSCT ceramics were studied. The results show that ZBS can inhibit the reaction between LiF and CaTiO<sub>3</sub>, which improve the surface morphology and reduce the sintering temperature of MSCT ceramics. The sample of MSCT with 2wt%ZBS-1.5wt%LiF sintered at 900 °C for 90 min shows excellent microwave dielectric properties: ε<sub><i>r</i></sub> = 9.26, <i>Q × f</i> = 68,580 GHz (at 15.5 GHz) and <i>τ</i><sub><i>f</i></sub> = -1.49 ppm/ °C. There is no obvious element diffusion at the co-firing interface between dielectrics and Ag electrodes, indicating it is a promising candidate for LTCC applications.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":625,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Electroceramics","volume":"50 2","pages":"44 - 49"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4754156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jiao Jin, Jiansheng Zhang, Min Shi, Chongyou Feng, Yichen Huang
{"title":"Phase transition and electrical properties of high performance, high temperature Bi(mg,Ti)O3-PbTiO3-PbZrO3 relaxor ferroelectric ceramics","authors":"Jiao Jin, Jiansheng Zhang, Min Shi, Chongyou Feng, Yichen Huang","doi":"10.1007/s10832-023-00302-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10832-023-00302-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Traditional Pb(Mg<sub>1/3</sub>Nb<sub>2/3</sub>)O<sub>3</sub>-PbTiO<sub>3</sub> based relaxor ferroelectrics have attracted much attention. However, the relatively low T<sub>m</sub> restricts their application in the high temperature range. In the present study, a novel (0.8-x)Bi(Mg<sub>1/2</sub>Ti<sub>1/2</sub>)O<sub>3</sub>-xPbTiO<sub>3</sub>-0.2PbZrO<sub>3</sub> ((0.8-x)BMT-xPT-PZ) relaxor ferroelectric based on the high temperature BMT-PT piezoelectrics was designed. All samples exhibit pure perovskite structures and the phase structures show a gradual transition from relaxor rhombohedral (R) to normal tetragonal (T) phases via the morphotropic phase boundary (MPB) in the composition range x = 0.36–0.39. The dielectric relaxation behavior can be observed in all samples although a spontaneous normal-relaxor ferroelectric transformation is observed in the T phase region. The x = 0.38 sample exhibits the optimal overall electrical properties with the d<sub>33</sub> value of 325 pC/N, the k<sub>p</sub> value of 0.38, the T<sub>m</sub> value of 290 <sup>o</sup>C. The results indicate that the present studied ternary system has a good potential as high temperature relaxor ferroelectrics.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":625,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Electroceramics","volume":"50 2","pages":"37 - 43"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10832-023-00302-4.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4973086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Isabelle Bruant, Romain Carpentier, Mohamed Fat’hi, Frédéric Pablo
{"title":"Actuating performance for functionally graded piezoelectric materials with interdigitated electrodes","authors":"Isabelle Bruant, Romain Carpentier, Mohamed Fat’hi, Frédéric Pablo","doi":"10.1007/s10832-022-00299-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10832-022-00299-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this article, the actuating performance for functionally graded piezoelectric materials (FGPM) using the <span>(d_{33})</span> mode actuation is investigated. The material properties vary continuously across the thickness direction, according to a fraction volume power law distribution, so that top and bottom surfaces consist of pure PZTG and the mid surface is composed of pure aluminium. The percolation phenomenon is taken into account. The optimization of the interdigitated electrode (IDE) design for FGPM is performed using finite element analysis. Several design parameters (electrodes number, width and spacing) are considered to improve the produced displacement for a cantilever plate, and the use of multilayered IDE is intended. Results are discussed for several distributions of the components in the FGPM thickness. A comparison with the <span>(d_{31})</span> mode actuation is presented.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":625,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Electroceramics","volume":"50 1","pages":"11 - 22"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10832-022-00299-2.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4302036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}