Direct mapping of Li-enabled octahedral tilt ordering and associated strain in nanostructured perovskites

Nature Materials

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1142-1149

  Zhu, Ye ^a   Withers, Ray L ^b   Bourgeois, Laure ^a   Dwyer, Christian ^c   Etheridge, Joanne ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PEROVSKITE; PHASE SEPARATION;

ATOMIC LEVEL IMAGING; ION CONDUCTORS; MATHEMATICAL FORMULAS; NANO-STRUCTURED; SELF ASSEMBLED NANOSTRUCTURES; STRUCTURAL FLUCTUATIONS; STRUCTURE DETERMINATION; TILT MODULATION;

SUPERLATTICES;

EID: 84945465274     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4390     Document Type: Article

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