A route to synthesize multifunctional tri-phasic nanofibers

Abstract

Nanofibers hold enormous potential for novel nanomaterials due to their ease of fabrication, yet fabrication routes are primarily used to produce bilayer structures. This paper describes a novel process for producing tri-layer ceramic composite fibers, and presents a proof of concept in the form of a multilayer multiferroic nanofiber consisting of alternating ferroelectric and ferromagnetic phases.