“…BTO nanoparticles that were produced through a hydrothermal synthesis process with diameters of 50 nm, 100 nm, 200 nm, 300 nm, and 500 nm were provided by Sakai Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., (Japan). As-received BTO powders were de-agglomerated through a surfactant-assisted ball milling process [17,18] using tert-Butylphosphonic acid (tBuPA) as a surfactant, which has been shown to limit the re-agglomeration of BTO nanoparticles after ball milling [19]. Similar BTO nanoparticles have been extensively characterized using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) [20], x-ray diffraction (XRD) [21], Raman spectroscopy [21], solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance [20], and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) [20,22].…”