Thrust 1: Tailoring one-dimensional inorganic perovskite nanofibers for enhanced physical and chemical properties
<p>Perovskites possess diversified composition, structure and properties, with virtue of customizable chemical composition and ease in generating non-stoichiometric defects. Perovskite minerals have exhibited unique ferro- and piezoelectric, colossal magnetoresistive, superconducting, semiconducting, and catalytic properties. As energy storage has been a key element in sustainable energy, the perovskites have been studied for supercapacitors as a hot research topic (Fig. 1). Since perovskites offer favorable direct band gap, large absorption coefficient, and high hole mobility, they are also promising light-harvesting materials in optoelectronic devices, such as photodetectors, lasers and light-emitting diodes. With the aid of neutron scattering, this research will explore new enhanced physical and chemical properties by delicately tailored inorganic nanoscale perovskite nanofiber architectures through changing the shape, dimensionality, size, processing and chemical doping. </p><img src="https://www.uncfsu.edu/assets/Images/Chemistry%20and%20Physics/PREM/Thrust%201.png" alt="Thrust 1" title="Thrust 1"><p><em><sup>Fig. 1. SrMnO</sup><sub><sup>3</sup></sub><sup> perovskite nanofibers. (a) SEM image; (b) TEM image and electron diffraction pattern; (c) galvanostatic charge/discharge curves at different current densities. (Published on Ceramics International, </sup></em><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceramint.2018.08.313"><em><sup>https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceramint.2018.08.313</sup></em></a><em><sup>) </sup></em></p>