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Nanoscale oxides shape up

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Reversible strains up to 14% driven by changes in temperature or electric field have been realized in a thin film of bismuth ferrite oxide.

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Figure 1: Shape-memory effect in a conventional shape-memory alloy and in a nanoscale BFO.

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  1. Antoni Planes and Lluís Mañosa are at the Departament d'Estructura i Constituents de la Matèria, University of Barcelona, Diagonal 647, 08028 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain,

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Planes, A., Mañosa, L. Nanoscale oxides shape up. Nature Mater 13, 6–8 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3844

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