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Progress and Understanding on Catalysts with Well-Defined Interface for Boosting CO
Conversion

Binran Zhao, Yiyi Zhao, Peng Liu, Yulong Men, Xinyu Meng and Yunxiang Pan*

In the cover picture, we adapt the ideal from "Journey to the West," one of Chinese four literary classics. The ancient Chinese mythical character, Monkey King, holds a treasure in his hand, which represents the catalysts with well-defined interface. CO2 is blown out from the mouth of Monkey King, then goes through the catalyst interface, and finally is converted into high value-added chemicals like CH4, CH3OH and CO. This well describes the focus of our paper titled “Progress and Understanding on Catalysts with Well-defined Interface for Boosting CO2 Conversion”.
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Research Advances of Ferroelectric Semiconductors of 2D Hybrid Perovskites toward Photoelectronic Applications

Yaoyao Chen, Changhao Gao, Tian Yang, Wenjing Li, Haojie Xu and Zhihua Sun*

Chin. J. Struct. Chem. 2022, 41, 2204001-2204011.  DOI: 10.14102/j.cnki.0254-5861.2022-0013

April 8, 2022

ferroelectric materials, hybrid perovskites, semiconductor properties, two-dimensional

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Ferroelectric materials, characterized by the switchable spontaneous polarization (Ps) through reversing the directions of external electric field, exhibit versatile physical attributes that have been extensively used for practical device applications. Two-dimensional (2D) organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites are recently emerging as a robust family of candidate ferroelectrics, termed ferroelectric semiconductors. In particular, the coexistence and/or coupling of ferroelectric polarization with their semiconducting properties enables new physical concepts, thus providing a potential platform for the development of new multifunctional optoelectronic devices. This review primarily describes the structural origin of symmetry breaking for generating ferroelectric orders in 2D hybrid perovskites, and then presents the combination of ferroelectric Ps with other semiconducting optoelectronic activities. Regarding the emergence of new photoelectric behaviors, the prospects for this 2D family of ferroelectric semiconductors are further discussed, along with their development tendency for the future photoelectronic device applications.



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