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ArticleNature communications2025

Liquid-matter relaxor ferroelectrics by design.

Xinxin Zhang, Yu Zou, Minghui Deng, Xiang Huang, Fan Ye, Xiujuan Liu, Erxiang Xu, Yang Shen, Satoshi Aya, Mingjun Huang

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Xinxin Zhang *South China Advanced Institute for Soft Matter Science and Technology (AISMST), School of Emergent Soft Matter, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China.
Yu Zou *South China Advanced Institute for Soft Matter Science and Technology (AISMST), School of Emergent Soft Matter, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China.
Minghui DengSouth China Advanced Institute for Soft Matter Science and Technology (AISMST), School of Emergent Soft Matter, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China.
Xiang HuangSouth China Advanced Institute for Soft Matter Science and Technology (AISMST), School of Emergent Soft Matter, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China.
Fan YeSouth China Advanced Institute for Soft Matter Science and Technology (AISMST), School of Emergent Soft Matter, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China.
Xiujuan LiuSouth China Advanced Institute for Soft Matter Science and Technology (AISMST), School of Emergent Soft Matter, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China.
Erxiang XuState Key Lab of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Yang ShenState Key Lab of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1421-0629
Satoshi AyaSouth China Advanced Institute for Soft Matter Science and Technology (AISMST), School of Emergent Soft Matter, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China. satoshiaya@scut.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5873-1701
Mingjun HuangSouth China Advanced Institute for Soft Matter Science and Technology (AISMST), School of Emergent Soft Matter, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China. huangmj25@scut.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4299-5750

Funding

CAS | Guangdong Academy of Sciences 2022A0505050006CAS | Guangdong Academy of Sciences 2024A1515011313
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Knowing that traditional relaxor ferroelectrics stem from crystalline materials, one may ask whether they stabilize the liquid-matter analogy. The perspective is challenging and may enable a generic design of fluidic and flexible relaxor ferroelectrics. Here, we unveil a novel polar matter state, dubbed the nematic relaxor ferroelectric, by artificially introducing polar nanoregions with nematicity into a dielectric nematic environment. We observe clear signatures of a nematic relaxor, which exhibits a high field-induced polarization of 1.1 μC·cm

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