.: Project summary:

Modern technology demands nanostructures. Recently, one-dimensional (1D) nanostructures, including nanowires, nanotubes and nanorods, have been considered as the most promising building blocks for nanoscale electronic and optoelectronic devices. Worldwide efforts in both the theory and the experimental investigation of growth, characterization and applications of 1D nanostructures have resulted in a mature, multidisciplinary field. Within this context, the main aim of this project is to elucidate the correlations between dimensionality and properties of some 1D nanostructured complex oxides with perovskite structure obtained by bottom-up chemical methods. The synthesis of some ferroelectric and multiferroic perovskites type nanomaterilas will receive a special focus and the process optimization will be guaranteed by exhaustive characterization based on electron microscopy techniques. The electrical (ferroelectric, multiferroic) and thermodynamic properties of the resulted 1D nanomaterials will be investigated in order to establish the size-shape-properties connection to further applications.

.: Keywords

1D nanostructures, perovskites, electron microscopy