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The electrocaloric effect (ECE) is an efficient and environmentally friendly method for solid-state refrigeration driven by an electric field.

Ferroelectrics are attractive due to their great application potential in information storage, optoelectronics, spintronics and sensing. As an important characteristic affecting semiconducting applications, the energy band structure is important for the development of light-emitting devices. Although it is a tremendous challenge to tune the bandgap in inorganic ferroelectric materials due to the strict requirement of structural symmetry for the fragile ferroelectricity, hybrid organic–inorganic perovskite (HOIP) ferroelectrics, which have a flexible structure, provide a new method to optimize the ferroelectric performance and bandgap. Based on the overview of methods for designing ferroelectrics, this Perspective systematically provides in-depth insight into the relationships between the structure–property and bandgap of HOIP ferroelectrics. In addition, we discussed the challenges and directions of HOIP ferroelectrics in semiconducting applications for the future.

Five novel coagulants, DC-491, Fennofix K97, BWD-01, MD-03 and MD-04 were chosen to treat reactive brilliant red X-3B simulated wastewater by jar tests. The results showed that the decolorization efficiencies were all higher than 75% at initial pH 8.2 and temperature 20 after 20 minutes of reaction. Then, two typical coagulants, BWD-01 and MD-04 which had better performance were chosen to study the effect of dye removal of X-3B at different operating parameters, including coagulant dosage, pH, sedimentaion time and reaction temperature of simulated wastewater. Decolorization efficiency of MD-04 for X-3B solution was higher than 80% in pH range from 3 to 9, while for BWD-01, efficiency increased from 37.3% to 82.3% in this pH range. For both BWD-01 and MD-04, the color removal efficiency increased as the solution temperature increased and the maximum efficiency was over 94% at 40. Small changes in the color removal efficiency were observed after 1 hour sedimentation for both coagulants.