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  • noun Plural form of perovskite.

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Examples

  • Wish me luck in managing to combine mega-afro blowout tensile strength with those copper perovskites while somehow ... somehow maintaining those pesky 2-to-3 metal-to-oxygen ratios and whatnot ...

    “Hello Malcolm...Hello Martin...” 2008

  • Wish me luck in managing to combine mega-afro blowout tensile strength with those copper perovskites while somehow ... somehow maintaining those pesky 2-to-3 metal-to-oxygen ratios and whatnot ...

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

  • Anode electrode 11 is preferably a porous electrode comprising perovskites, metals and/or cermets.

    Wired Top Stories Michael Kanellos 2010

  • Scientists noted that lanthanum-based perovskites worked best, because they could be doped with manganese, strontium, or cobalt to tune their functionality.

    Ars Technica Casey Johnston 2010

  • These perovskites display superior piezoelectric properties in areas where the phase of their crystal structure abruptly changes.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • "In principle, the strain-driven piezoelectric effect we have observed in bismuth ferrite should be generic to other lead-free perovskites as well," Ramesh says, "akin to chemically driven effects that are now well established in the manganites, cuprates and relaxors."

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • Ramesh and his group are now testing their strain-driven piezoelectric technique on other perovskites.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • Neither dense post-spinel polymorphs nor silicate perovskites, however, have been discovered in nature and confirmed as new mineral.

    EurekAlert! - Breaking News 2008

  • Neither dense post-spinel polymorphs nor silicate perovskites, however, have been discovered in nature and confirmed as new mineral.

    EurekAlert! - Breaking News 2008

  • Neither dense post-spinel polymorphs nor silicate perovskites, however, have been discovered in nature and confirmed as new mineral.

    EurekAlert! - Breaking News 2008

  • It’s here where UK firm Oxford PV is producing commercial solar cells using perovskites: cheap, abundant photovoltaic (PV) materials that some have hailed as the future of green energy.

    A new kind of solar cell is coming: is it the future of green energy? Mark Peplow 2023

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