三相多重铁性复合材料的有效磁电弹性模量预测

采用平均场Mori-Tanaka模型,计算了三相复合材料的有效磁电弹性模量,研究了复合材料磁电系数与微观结构之间关系;结果表明掺杂相的体积分数与颗粒形状系数对复合材料的有效磁电系数有很大的影响,这些结果可为复合材料的实验设计提供理论参考和指导.     

Synthesis, microstructures, and magnetoelectric couplings of electrospun multiferroic nanofibers

Multiferroic materials with two or more types of ferroic orders have attracted a great deal of attention in the last decade for their magnetoelectric coupling, and new ideas and concepts have been explored recently to develop multiferroic materials at nano-scale. Motivated by theoretical analysis, we synthesized single-phase BiFeO₃ (BFO) nanofibers, Pb(Zr_0.52Ti_0.48)O₃-CoFe₂O₄ (PZT-CFO) and Pb(Zr_0.52Ti_0.48)O₃-NiFe₂O₄ (PZT-NFO) composite nanofibers, and CoFe₂O₄-Pb(Zr_0.52Ti_0.48)O₃ (CFO-PZT) core-shell nanofibers using sol-gel based electrospinning. These nanofibers typically have diameters in the range of a few hundred nanometers and grain size in the range of 10s nanometers, and exhibits both ferroelectric and ferromagnetic properties. Piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) based techniques have also been developed to examine the magnetoelectric coupling of the nanofibers, which is estimated to be two orders of magnitude higher than that of thin films, consistent with our theoretical analysis. These nanofibers are promising for a variety of multiferroic applications.