How to Use niobate in a Sentence
niobate
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To the team’s surprise, strain didn’t just shift sodium niobate from one crystalline arrangement to another.
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Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Nov. 2025
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As the atoms of the sodium niobate stretch and compress to mimic that underlying structure, the material experiences strain that reshapes its internal phases.
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Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Nov. 2025
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Particularly, the technique allowed the observation of the elusive nanoregions within a lead magnesium niobate-lead titanate alloy.
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Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Apr. 2026
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Strain sparks change The team focused on sodium niobate (NaNbO₃), a flexible lead-free ferroelectric with a notoriously complex ground-state structure.
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Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Nov. 2025
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The group fabricated their device using CFRP, sodium potassium niobate (KNN) nanoparticles, and epoxy resin.
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IEEE Spectrum,
1 Nov. 2023
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The experiments took place at room temperature, but the team plans to test whether sodium niobate behaves similarly under extreme conditions ranging from minus 270 °C to 1,000 °C.
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Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Nov. 2025
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