journal article·2025-04Open access

Superior Electrocaloric Performance Enabled by Highly Robust Monomorphic Ferrodistortion in NaNbO3‐Based Relaxor

Feng Li, Xiaoli Ji, Xiangjian Wang, Changshun Dai, Xuan Wang, Siyu Chen, Wei Liu, Mingsheng Long, Lei Shan, He Qi, Jianli Wang, Chunchang Wang, Zhenxiang Cheng

Advanced Functional Materials· Volume 35· Issue 16

Abstract

Abstract A synergistic realization of high electrocaloric effect (ECE) and excellent temperature stability in ferroelectrics are foundation for practical applications, which is, however, a major challenge in ferroelectric cooling community thus far. In confront with this long‐standing issue, an emergent monomorphic ferrodistortion strategy in NaNbO3‐based relaxor is proposed with flexible tetragonal polar nanoregions immersing in short‐range oxygen octahedral tilt. This not only contributes to large quantities of polar entities to increase entropy change but also produces highly robust oxygen octahedral tilt to persist ferroelectricity and obstruct thermal agitations. Therefore, a high ΔT of 0.96 K and an ultrawide temperature span ΔTspan of 110 K with a record‐high figure of merit of 4.74 is achieved in Ta‐doped NaNbO3‐BaTiO3 ceramics and these superior EC performances present a remarkable breakthrough in ferroelectric bulks cooling. This work thus provides an innovative way of utilizing ferrodistortive relaxor feature with polar nanoregions immersing in oxygen octahedral tilt to simultaneously boost EC value and temperature stability and thus monomorphic ferrodistortion is proposed as an effective strategy to develop high‐performance entropy‐change materials.
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OpenAlex topics: Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials · Multiferroics and related materials · Dielectric materials and actuators

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Affiliations

Information Materials and Intelligent Sensing Laboratory of Anhui Province Leibniz International Joint Research Center of Materials Sciences of Anhui Province Institutes of Physical Science and Information Technology Anhui University Hefei 230601 China

Department of Information Engineering Quzhou College of Technology Quzhou 324000 China

Laboratory of Dielectric Functional Materials School of Materials Science and Engineering Anhui University Hefei 230601 China

Hefei National Laboratory Hefei 230088 China

School of Materials Science and Engineering Hainan University Haikou 570228 China

Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials Australian Institute for Innovative Materials University of Wollongong North Wollongong 2500 Australia

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China

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