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Characteristics of 5 mol% Ce3+-doped barium titanate nanowires prepared by a combined route involving sol–gel chemistry and polycarbonate membrane-templated process

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Ba0.95Ce0.05Ti0.9875O3 nanowires were fabricated by sol–gel method using as template a polycarbonate membrane with channels of 100 nm diameter. FE-SEM analyses showed that continuous gel wires of length up to 17 µm and an average diameter of 81 nm, were obtained. After calcination at 700 °C for 1 h, these green 1D nanostructures were converted into well-crystallised wires with an average diameter of 59.7 nm, as high-resolution transmission electron microscopy and selected area electron diffraction indicated. The piezoelectric activity of the Ba0.95Ce0.05Ti0.9875O3 nanowires was investigated using piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) correlated with atomic force microscopy. The results of PFM measurements indicated that the wires exhibit a significant fraction of ferroelectric domains larger than the grains size and a good piezoelectric response.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the Romanian CNCS-UEFISCDI Project No. PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0668 and by the Sectorial Operational Programme Human Resources Development 2007–2013 of the Ministry of European Funds through the Financial Agreement POSDRU/159/1.5/S/132397 (ExcelDOC).

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  1. Department of Oxide Materials Science and Engineering, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, 1-7 Gh. Polizu, P.O. Box 12-134, 011061, Bucharest, Romania

    Catalina-Andreea Vasilescu, Bogdan Stefan Vasile & Adelina-Carmen Ianculescu

  2. National Institute for Lasers, Plasma and Radiation Physics, P.O. Box MG54, 077125, Magurele, Romania

    Catalina-Andreea Vasilescu

  3. National Institute of Materials Physics, P.O. Box MG-7, 077125, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania

    Lucian Trupina & Marin Cernea

  4. S.C. METAV–Research & Development Bucharest, P.O. Box 22, Bucharest, Romania

    Roxana Trusca

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Vasilescu, CA., Trupina, L., Vasile, B.S. et al. Characteristics of 5 mol% Ce3+-doped barium titanate nanowires prepared by a combined route involving sol–gel chemistry and polycarbonate membrane-templated process. J Nanopart Res 17, 434 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11051-015-3241-9

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