Review on Multicatalytic Behavior of Ba0.85Ca0.15Ti0.9Zr0.1O3 Ceramic

Abstract

Ferroelectric materials are known to possess multicatalytic abilities that are nowadays utilized for removing organic pollutants from water via piezocatalysis, photocatalysis, piezo-photocatalysis, and pyrocatalysis processes. The Ba0.85Ca0.15Ti0.9Zr0.1O3 (BCZTO) ceramic is one such ferroelectric composition that has been extensively studied for electrical and electronic applications. Furthermore, the BCZTO ceramic has also shown remarkable multicatalytic performance in water-cleaning applications. The present review explores the potentiality of BCZTO for water-cleaning and bacterial-killing applications. It also highlights the fundamentals of ferroelectric ceramics, the importance of electric poling, and the principles underlying piezocatalysis, photocatalysis, and pyrocatalysis processes in addition to the multicatalytic capability of ferroelectric BCZTO ceramic.

Synergic effect of photocatalysis and tribocatalysis for dye degradation by BaTiO3 ceramics

“…In this process, a catalyst absorbs energy from the incident light that aligns with its specific energy band gap. 58 This step serves as the fundamental foundation for all photocatalytic processes. When light with sufficient energy interacts for the reaction to occur spontaneously.…”

Direct and converse piezoelectricity of thickness tuned BCZT ceramics: toward efficient bilayered magnetoelectric devices

“…This composition of BCZT is well-known to be an excellent MPB composition thereby rendering very high piezoelectricity [9][10][11][12]. Furthermore, the usage of this material in a wide variety of technological applications such as energy harvesting [13], energy storage [14], magnetoelectric applications [15], catalytic activity [16], and many others has made it very worthy of investigation in recent times. On the other hand, the effect of thickness tuning of BCZT ceramics on its direct and converse piezoelectricity has been rarely explored earlier.…”