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Prokhorenko S; Nahas Y; Govinden V; Zhang Q; Valanoor N; Bellaiche L, 2024, 'Motion and teleportation of polar bubbles in low-dimensional ferroelectrics', Nature Communications, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-44639-4

Ma Z; Wang Z; Zhang Q; Guo Y; Zhou P; Liang K; Zhang T; Valanoor N, 2024, 'Large resistive switching in ultrathin BiFeO3 thin films', Journal of Applied Physics, 136, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0231809

Zhou J; Huang HH; Kobayashi S; Yasui S; Wang K; Eliseev EA; Morozovska AN; Yu P; Takeuchi I; Hong Z; Sando D; Zhang Q; Valanoor N, 2024, 'An Emergent Quadruple Phase Ensemble in Doped Bismuth Ferrite Thin Films Through Site and Strain Engineering', Advanced Functional Materials, 34, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202403410

Bulanadi R; Cordero-Edwards K; Tückmantel P; Saremi S; Morpurgo G; Zhang Q; Martin LW; Nagarajan V; Paruch P, 2024, 'Interplay between Point and Extended Defects and Their Effects on Jerky Domain-Wall Motion in Ferroelectric Thin Films', Physical Review Letters, 133, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.106801

Govinden V; Tong P; Guo X; Zhang Q; Mantri S; Seyfouri MM; Prokhorenko S; Nahas Y; Wu Y; Bellaiche L; Sun T; Tian H; Hong Z; Valanoor N; Sando D, 2023, 'Ferroelectric solitons crafted in epitaxial bismuth ferrite superlattices', Nature Communications, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39841-3

Bake A; Zhang Q; Ho CS; Causer GL; Zhao W; Yue Z; Nguyen A; Akhgar G; Karel J; Mitchell D; Pastuovic Z; Lewis R; Cole JH; Nancarrow M; Valanoor N; Wang X; Cortie D, 2023, 'Top-down patterning of topological surface and edge states using a focused ion beam', Nature Communications, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37102-x

Liang J; Jiang Y; Sun Y; Rawal A; Zhang Q; Song Z; Sakamoto Y; Du J; Jiang C; Chang SLY; Fei L; Ke S; Chen Z; Li W; Wang D, 2023, 'Efficient piezocatalysis of Bi0.5(Na1−xKx)0.5TiO3 nanoparticles: bridging the phase ratio at MPB composition and piezocatalytic activity', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 11, pp. 16093 - 16103, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d3ta01995k

Govinden V; Prokhorenko S; Zhang Q; Rijal S; Nahas Y; Bellaiche L; Valanoor N, 2023, 'Spherical ferroelectric solitons', Nature Materials, 22, pp. 553 - 561, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41563-023-01527-y

Zhou J; Sando D; Summers M; Jia Y; Wang K; Valanoor N; Zhang Q, 2023, 'Gelation Chemistry and Phase Development of Chemical Solution Deposition-Derived Sm-Doped BiFeO3 Thin Films: The Role of Sm Dopant', ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 5, pp. 1302 - 1310, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.3c00007

Jiang Y; Toe CY; Mofarah SS; Cazorla C; Chang SLY; Yin Y; Zhang Q; Lim S; Yao Y; Tian R; Wang Y; Zaman T; Arandiyan H; Andersson GG; Scott J; Koshy P; Wang D; Sorrell CC, 2023, 'Efficient Cocatalyst-Free Piezo-Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution of Defective BaTiO3-x Nanoparticles from Seawater', ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 11, pp. 3370 - 3389, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.2c06573

Govinden V; Rijal S; Zhang Q; Nahas Y; Bellaiche L; Valanoor N; Prokhorenko S, 2023, 'Stability of ferroelectric bubble domains', Physical Review Materials, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.7.L011401

Ruan Y; Zhang Q; Lord M; Guo Y; Wang J; Liu J; Ma Z; Zhou P; Zhang T; Valanoor N, 2022, 'Poling Sequence-Dependent Tunneling Electroresistance in HfO2-Based Ferroelectric Tunnel Junctions', ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 4, pp. 5171 - 5176, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.2c01131

Sun Y; Zhang L; Huang Q; Chen Z; Wang D; Seyfouri MM; Chang SLY; Wang Y; Zhang Q; Liao X; Li S; Zhang S; Wang D, 2022, 'Ultrahigh Energy Storage Density in Glassy Ferroelectric Thin Films under Low Electric Field', Advanced Science, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs.202203926

Liu C; Sepasgozar SME; Zhang Q; Ge L, 2022, 'A novel attention-based deep learning method for post-disaster building damage classification', Expert Systems with Applications, 202, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2022.117268

Ma Z; Zhang Q; Tao L; Wang Y; Sando D; Zhou J; Guo Y; Lord M; Zhou P; Ruan Y; Wang Z; Hamilton A; Gruverman A; Tsymbal EY; Zhang T; Valanoor N, 2022, 'A Room-Temperature Ferroelectric Resonant Tunneling Diode', Advanced Materials, 34, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.202205359

Seyfouri MM; Zhang D; Menéndez C; Sando D; Zhang Q; Cazorla C; Seidel J; Wang D, 2022, 'Engineering Photoresponse in Epitaxial BiFe0.5Cr0.5O3Thin Films through Structural Distortion', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 126, pp. 14329 - 14338, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c04297

Sharma P; Morozovska AN; Eliseev EA; Zhang Q; Sando D; Valanoor N; Seidel J, 2022, 'Specific Conductivity of a Ferroelectric Domain Wall', ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 4, pp. 2739 - 2746, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.2c00261

Zhang Q; Ge L; Hensley S; Isabel Metternicht G; Liu C; Zhang R, 2022, 'PolGAN: A deep-learning-based unsupervised forest height estimation based on the synergy of PolInSAR and LiDAR data', ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 186, pp. 123 - 139, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2022.02.008

Govinden V; Rijal S; Zhang Q; Sando D; Prokhorenko S; Nahas Y; Bellaiche L; Valanoor N, 2021, 'Controlling topological defect transitions in nanoscale lead zirconate titanate heterostructures', Physical Review Materials, 5, pp. 124205, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.5.124205

Bakaul SR; Prokhorenko S; Zhang Q; Nahas Y; Hu Y; Petford-Long A; Bellaiche L; Valanoor N, 2021, 'Freestanding Ferroelectric Bubble Domains', Advanced Materials, 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.202105432

Winkler RS; Zhang Y; Zhang Q; Wang Z; Zhu Y; Han MG; Schlom DG; Valanoor N, 2021, 'Electromechanical Manipulation of Topological Defects to Yield Giant Piezoelectric Response in Epitaxial Lead Zirconate Titanate Bilayers on Silicon', Advanced Electronic Materials, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aelm.202100195

Meier D; Valanoor N; Zhang Q; Lee D, 2021, 'Domains and domain walls in ferroic materials', Journal of Applied Physics, 129, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0057144

Xie B; Wang Q; Zhang Q; Liu Z; Lu J; Zhang H; Jiang S, 2021, 'High Energy Storage Performance of PMMA Nanocomposites Utilizing Hierarchically Structured Nanowires Based on Interface Engineering', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 13, pp. 27382 - 27391, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c03835

Fan P; Liu K; Ma W; Tan H; Zhang Q; Zhang L; Zhou C; Salamon D; Zhang ST; Zhang Y; Nan B; Zhang H, 2021, 'Progress and perspective of high strain NBT-based lead-free piezoceramics and multilayer actuators', Journal of Materiomics, 7, pp. 508 - 544, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmat.2020.11.009

Govinden V; Zhang Q; Sando D; Valanoor N, 2021, 'Depolarization field tuning of nanoscale ferroelectric domains in (001)PbZr0.4Ti0.6O3/SrTiO3/PbZr0.4Ti0.6O3epitaxial heterostructures', Journal of Applied Physics, 129, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0035887

Valanoor N; Zhang Q; Zhou J; Sando D; Cheng X; Ma Z, 2020, 'Tuning phase fractions and leakage properties of chemical solution deposition-derived mixed-phase BiFeO3 thin films', ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 2, pp. 4099 - 4110, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.0c00891

Zhang H; Wei T; Zhang Q; Ma W; Fan P; Salamon D; Zhang ST; Nan B; Tan H; Ye ZG, 2020, 'A review on the development of lead-free ferroelectric energy-storage ceramics and multilayer capacitors', Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 8, pp. 16648 - 16667, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d0tc04381h

Ma Z; Zhang Q; Valanoor N, 2020, 'A perspective on electrode engineering in ultrathin ferroelectric heterostructures for enhanced tunneling electroresistance', Applied Physics Reviews, 7, pp. 041316, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0028798

Nahas Y; Prokhorenko S; Zhang Q; Govinden V; Valanoor N; Bellaiche L, 2020, 'Topology and control of self-assembled domain patterns in low-dimensional ferroelectrics', Nature Communications, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19519-w

Wang Y; Zhang Q; Zhou J; Liu J; Ma Z; Zhou P; Zhang T; Valanoor N, 2020, 'Fowler-Nordheim tunneling-assisted enhancement of tunneling electroresistance effect through a composite barrier', Applied Physics Letters, 116, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0001770

Ghasemian MB; Rawal A; Shahrbabaki Z; Zhang Q; Lu T; Liu Y; Wang D, 2020, 'Evidence of phase coexistence in hydrothermally synthesized K0.5Na0.5NbO3nanofibers', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 8, pp. 8731 - 8739, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c9ta14153g

Zhang Q; Rana A; Liu X; Valanoor N, 2020, 'Electrode dependence of local electrical properties of chemical-solution-deposition-derived BiFeO3 thin films', ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 1, pp. 154 - 162, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.8b00064

Sando D; Appert F; Burns SR; Zhang Q; Gallais Y; Sacuto A; Cazayous M; Garcia V; Fusil S; Carrétéro C; Le Breton JM; Barthélémy A; Bibes M; Juraszek J; Nagarajan V, 2019, 'Influence of flexoelectricity on the spin cycloid in (110)-oriented BiFe O3 films', Physical Review Materials, 3, pp. 104404, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.3.104404

Zhang Q; Prokhorenko S; Nahas Y; Xie L; Bellaiche L; Gruverman A; Valanoor N, 2019, 'Correction to: Deterministic Switching of Ferroelectric Bubble Nanodomains (Advanced Functional Materials, (2019), 29, 28, (1808573), 10.1002/adfm.201808573)', Advanced Functional Materials, 29, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201904104

Zhang Q; Prokhorenko S; Nahas Y; Xie L; Bellaiche L; Gruverman A; Valanoor N, 2019, 'Deterministic Switching of Ferroelectric Bubble Nanodomains', Advanced Functional Materials, 29, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201808573

Sharma P; Sando D; Zhang Q; Cheng X; Prosandeev S; Bulanadi R; Prokhorenko S; Bellaiche L; Chen LQ; Nagarajan V; Seidel J, 2019, 'Conformational Domain Wall Switch', Advanced Functional Materials, 29, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201807523

Park CK; Gharavi PSM; Kurnia F; Zhang Q; Toe CY; Al-Farsi M; Allan NL; Yao Y; Xie L; He J; Ng YH; Valanoor N; Hart JN, 2019, 'GaP-ZnS Multilayer Films: Visible-Light Photoelectrodes by Interface Engineering', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 123, pp. 3336 - 3342, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b10797

Liu X; Zhang Q; Li J; Valanoor N; Tang X; Cao G, 2018, 'Increase of power conversion efficiency in dye-sensitized solar cells through ferroelectric substrate induced charge transport enhancement', Scientific Reports, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-35764-y

Xie B; Zhang Q; Zhang L; Zhu Y; Guo X; Fan P; Zhang H, 2018, 'Ultrahigh discharged energy density in polymer nanocomposites by designing linear/ferroelectric bilayer heterostructure', Nano Energy, 54, pp. 437 - 446, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2018.10.041

Fan P; Zhang Y; Zhang Q; Xie B; Zhu Y; Mawat MA; Ma W; Liu K; Xiao J; Zhang H, 2018, 'Large strain with low hysteresis in Bi4Ti3O12 modified Bi1/2(Na0.82K0.18)1/2TiO3 lead-free piezoceramics', Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 38, pp. 4404 - 4413, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2018.05.028

Zhang Q; Huang HH; Sando D; Summers M; Munroe P; Standard O; Valanoor N, 2018, 'Mixed-phase bismuth ferrite thin films by chemical solution deposition', Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 6, pp. 2882 - 2888, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c7tc05841a

Zhang Q; Xie L; Liu G; Prokhorenko S; Nahas Y; Pan X; Bellaiche L; Gruverman A; Valanoor N, 2017, 'Nanoscale Bubble Domains and Topological Transitions in Ultrathin Ferroelectric Films', Advanced Materials, 29, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.201702375

Sharma P; Zhang Q; Sando D; Lei CH; Liu Y; Li J; Nagarajan V; Seidel J, 2017, 'Nonvolatile ferroelectric domain wall memory', Science Advances, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1700512

Xie B; Zhang H; Zhang Q; Zang J; Yang C; Wang Q; Li MY; Jiang S, 2017, 'Enhanced energy density of polymer nanocomposites at a low electric field through aligned BaTiO3 nanowires', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 5, pp. 6070 - 6078, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c7ta00513j

Xie B; Zhang Q; Zhang H; Zhang G; Qiu S; Jiang S, 2016, 'Largely enhanced ferroelectric and energy storage performances of P(VDF-CTFE) nanocomposites at a lower electric field using BaTiO3 nanowires by stirring hydrothermal method', Ceramics International, 42, pp. 19012 - 19018, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ceramint.2016.09.057

Liu G; Zhang Q; Huang HH; Munroe P; Nagarajan V; Simons H; Hong Z; Chen LQ, 2016, 'Reversible Polarization Rotation in Epitaxial Ferroelectric Bilayers', Advanced Materials Interfaces, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/admi.201600444

Zhang Q; Sando D; Nagarajan V, 2016, 'Chemical route derived bismuth ferrite thin films and nanomaterials', Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 4, pp. 4092 - 4124, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c6tc00243a

Zhang H; Groh C; Zhang Q; Jo W; Webber KG; Rödel J, 2015, 'Large Strain in Relaxor/Ferroelectric Composite Lead-Free Piezoceramics', Advanced Electronic Materials, 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aelm.201500018

Huang HH; Zhang Q; Huang E; Maran R; Sakata O; Ehara Y; Shiraishi T; Funakubo H; Munroe P; Valanoor N, 2015, 'Epitaxial PbZrxTi1-xO3 Ferroelectric Bilayers with Giant Electromechanical Properties', Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/admi.201500075

Zhang Q; Valanoor N; Standard O, 2015, 'Epitaxial (001) BiFeO3 thin-films with excellent ferroelectric properties by chemical solution deposition-the role of gelation', Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 3, pp. 582 - 595, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c4tc02371d


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