BaTiO3 nanocube and assembly to ferroelectric supracrystals

Journal of Materials Research volume 28, pages2932–2945(2013)Cite this article

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New strategies for materials fabrication are of fundamental importance in the advancement of science and technology. Nanocrystals, especially with an anisotropic shape such as cubic, are candidates for building blocks for new bottom-up approaches to materials assembly, yielding a functional architecture. Such materials also receive attention because of their intrinsic size-dependent properties and resulting applications. Here, we report synthesis and characteristics of BaTiO3 and SrTiO3 nanocubes and the ordered assemblies as ferroelectric supracrystals. BaTiO3 and SrTiO3 nanocubes with narrow size distributions were obtained in an aqueous process. BaTiO3 films made up of ordered nanocube assemblies were fabricated on various substrates by evaporation-induced self-assembly method. Regardless of the substrate, the nanocubes exhibited {100} orientations and a high degree of face-to-face ordering, which remained even after heat treatment at 850 °C. Piezoresponse force microscopy was carried out on the supracrsytal films to obtain plots of the d33 piezoelectric coefficient against the poling field, and ferroelectric hysteresis curves were shown.

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This work was supported by the Collaborative Research Consortium of Nanocrystal Ceramics and the Advanced Low Carbon Technology Research and Development Program (ALCA) of Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).

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  1. National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Shimoshidami, Moriyama, Nagoya, 463-8560, Japan

    Kazumi Kato, Ken-ichi Mimura & Feng Dang

  2. Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, Kohoku, Yokohama, 223-8522, Japan

    Hiroaki Imai

  3. Department of Research Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Department of Applied Chemistry, University of Yamanashi, Kofu, 400-8511, Japan

    Satoshi Wada

  4. National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, 305-0044, Japan

    Minoru Osada & Hajime Haneda

  5. Kyushu University, Kasuga, Fukuoka, 816-8580, Japan

    Makoto Kuwabara

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Kato, K., Mimura, Ki., Dang, F. et al. BaTiO3 nanocube and assembly to ferroelectric supracrystals. Journal of Materials Research 28, 2932–2945 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2013.299

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