Materials (Aug 2023)

Review on Multicatalytic Behavior of Ba<sub>0.85</sub>Ca<sub>0.15</sub>Ti<sub>0.9</sub>Zr<sub>0.1</sub>O<sub>3</sub> Ceramic

  • Akshay Gaur,
  • Chirag Porwal,
  • Imed Boukhris,
  • Vishal Singh Chauhan,
  • Rahul Vaish

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/ma16165710
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. 16
p. 5710

Abstract

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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.

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