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Wenwu Cao is a researcher affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their academic work spans the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with a focus on subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Mechanics of Materials.

The scientist's primary research topics include Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials, Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies, Multiferroics and related materials, Microwave Dielectric Ceramics Synthesis, Ultrasonics and Acoustic Wave Propagation, Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics, and Dielectric materials and actuators.

Wenwu Cao has made contributions to multiple publication venues, with notable frequency in the following journals:

  • Journal of Material Science and Technology
  • Ceramics International
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Journal of the European Ceramic Society

Some of the recent published papers from Wenwu Cao include:

  • High-Performance [001]c-Textured PNN-PZT Relaxor Ferroelectric Ceramics for Electromechanical Coupling Devices, 2020, Advanced Functional Materials
  • Grain-Oriented Ferroelectric Ceramics with Single-Crystal-like Piezoelectric Properties and Low Texture Temperature, 2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Ultra-large electric field-induced strain in potassium sodium niobate crystals, 2020, Science Advances
  • Multifunctional Porphyrin-Based Sonosensitizers for Sonodynamic Therapy, 2024, Advanced Functional Materials
  • Sm and Mn co-doped PMN-PT piezoelectric ceramics: Defect engineering strategy to achieve large d33 and high Qm, 2022, Journal of Material Science and Technology

Throughout their career, Wenwu Cao has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Bin Yang
  • Enwei Sun
  • Rui Zhang
  • Huashan Zheng
  • Lang Bian

Best Publications

  • Intrinsic and Extrinsic Size Effects in Fine-Grained Morphotropic-Phase-Boundary Lead Zirconate Titanate Ceramics

    Clive A. Randall;Namchul Kim;John Paul Kucera;Wenwu Cao

  • Relaxor-based ferroelectric single crystals: growth, domain engineering, characterization and applications.

    Enwei Sun;Wenwu Cao

  • Elastic, piezoelectric, and dielectric properties of multidomain 0.67Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3–0.33PbTiO3 single crystals

    Rui Zhang;Bei Jiang;Wenwu Cao

  • Grain size and domain size relations in bulk ceramic ferroelectric materials

    Wenwu Cao;Clive A. Randall

  • Back gated multilayer InSe transistors with enhanced carrier mobilities via the suppression of carrier scattering from a dielectric interface.

    Wei Feng;Wei Zheng;Wenwu Cao;Wenwu Cao;PingAn Hu

  • THE EXTRINSIC NATURE OF NONLINEAR BEHAVIOR OBSERVED IN LEAD ZIRCONATE TITANATE FERROELECTRIC CERAMIC

    Shaoping Li;Wenwu Cao;L. E. Cross

  • Theory of tetragonal twin structures in ferroelectric perovskites with a first-order phase transition

    Wenwu Cao;L. E. Cross

  • Semiconductor/relaxor 0–3 type composites without thermal depolarization in Bi 0.5 Na 0.5 TiO 3 -based lead-free piezoceramics

    Ji Zhang;Zhao Pan;Fei Fei Guo;Wen Chao Liu

  • Ultrafast polarization switching in thin-film ferroelectrics

    J. Li;B. Nagaraj;H. Liang;W. Cao

  • Losses in ferroelectric materials

    Gang Liu;Shujun Zhang;Wenhua Jiang;Wenwu Cao

  • An optical temperature sensor based on the upconversion luminescence from Tm3+/Yb3+ codoped oxyfluoride glass ceramic

    Wei Xu;Xiaoyang Gao;Longjiang Zheng;Zhiguo Zhang

  • Optical temperature sensing through the upconversion luminescence from Ho3+/Yb3+ codoped CaWO4

    Wei Xu;Hua Zhao;Yaxin Li;Longjiang Zheng

  • Theoretical model for the morphotropic phase boundary in lead zirconate–lead titanate solid solution

    Wenwu Cao;L. Eric Cross

  • An Insight into the Role of Oxygen Vacancy in Hydrogenated TiO2 Nanocrystals in the Performance of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

    Ting Su;Yulin Yang;Yong Na;Ruiqing Fan

  • Ultrahigh photo-responsivity and detectivity in multilayer InSe nanosheets phototransistors with broadband response†

    Wei Feng;Jing Bin Wu;Xiaoli Li;Wei Zheng

  • Synthesis of two-dimensional β-Ga2O3 nanosheets for high-performance solar blind photodetectors

    Wei Feng;Xiaona Wang;Jia Zhang;Lifeng Wang

  • Exceptionally High Piezoelectric Coefficient and Low Strain Hysteresis in Grain-Oriented (Ba, Ca)(Ti, Zr)O3 through Integrating Crystallographic Texture and Domain Engineering

    Yingchun Liu;Yunfei Chang;Yunfei Chang;Fei Li;Fei Li;Bin Yang

  • Electric Fatigue in Lead Zirconate Titanate Ceramics

    Qiyue Jiang;Wenwu Cao;L. Eric Cross

  • High frequency properties of passive materials for ultrasonic transducers

    Haifeng Wang;T. Ritter;Wenwu Cao;K.K. Shung

  • Elastic, piezoelectric, and dielectric properties of 0.955Pb(Zn/sub 1/3/Nb/sub 2/3/)O/sub 3/-0.45PbTiO/sub 3/ single crystal with designed multidomains

    J. Yin;B. Jiang;W. Cao

Frequent Co-Authors

Bin Yang
Bin Yang Kunming University of Science and Technology
Shan-Tao Zhang
Shan-Tao Zhang Nanjing University
PingAn Hu
PingAn Hu Harbin Institute of Technology
L. E. Cross
L. E. Cross Pennsylvania State University
Mingrong Shen
Mingrong Shen Soochow University
Shujun Zhang
Shujun Zhang City University of Hong Kong
Ye Sun
Ye Sun Harbin Institute of Technology
Raj Mittra
Raj Mittra Pennsylvania State University
Thomas R. Shrout
Thomas R. Shrout Pennsylvania State University
Qingfeng Yan
Qingfeng Yan Tsinghua University

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