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. 2018 Sep 18;9:3809. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-06369-w

Fig. 3.

Fig. 3

New chemical bond formation after aqueous-solution treatments. Corresponding typical quasi-static piezoresponse hysteresis loops show that coercive fields decreased after Milli-Q-water-induced polarization switching (a) and acidic-solution-induced polarization switching (b). X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy spectrums showing an appearance of peak belongs to M–O–H bond after the polarization reversed in Milli-Q water (c) and acidic solution (d), indicating a significant formation of new surface chemical structure on BFO