High-performance ferroelectric materials are used in many applications, ranging from actuators to capacitors. Now, high entropy is emerging as an effective and flexible strategy for enhancing the physical properties of ferroelectrics via the delicate design of local polarization configurations.
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The work is partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 22235002 and no. 21825102).
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Qi, H., Chen, L., Deng, S. et al. High-entropy ferroelectric materials. Nat Rev Mater 8, 355–356 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41578-023-00544-2
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