Smart and multifunctional materials based on electroactive poly (vinylidene fluoride): recent advances and opportunities in sensors, actuators, energy, environmental …

CM Costa, VF Cardoso, P Martins, DM Correia… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
From scientific and technological points of view, poly (vinylidene fluoride), PVDF, is one of
the most exciting polymers due to its overall physicochemical characteristics. This polymer …

Recent advances in organic and organic–inorganic hybrid materials for piezoelectric mechanical energy harvesting

T Vijayakanth, DJ Liptrot, E Gazit… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This article provides a comprehensive overview of piezo‐and ferro‐electric materials based
on organic molecules and organic–inorganic hybrids for mechanical energy harvesting …

Construction of bio‐piezoelectric platforms: From structures and synthesis to applications

Q Xu, X Gao, S Zhao, YN Liu, D Zhang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Piezoelectric materials, with their unique ability for mechanical‐electrical energy conversion,
have been widely applied in important fields such as sensing, energy harvesting …

Review of BiScO3-PbTiO3 piezoelectric materials for high temperature applications: fundamental, progress, and perspective

Y Dong, K Zou, R Liang, Z Zhou - Progress in Materials Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract BiScO 3-PbTiO 3 (BS-PT) system has been extensively investigated over two
decades since the discovery in 2001 for its high piezoelectric coefficient and high Curie …

Porous ferroelectric materials for energy technologies: current status and future perspectives

M Yan, Z **ao, J Ye, X Yuan, Z Li, C Bowen… - Energy & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Ferroelectric materials have attracted significant interest due to their wide potential in energy
harvesting, sensing, storage, and catalytic applications. For monolithic and dense …

High‐Stroke, High‐Output‐Force, Fabric‐Lattice Artificial Muscles for Soft Robots

D Yang, M Feng, G Gu - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Artificial muscles, providing safe and close interaction between humans and machines, are
essential in soft robotics. However, their insufficient deformation, output force, or …

Fabrication of practical deformable displays: advances and challenges

DW Kim, SW Kim, G Lee, J Yoon, S Kim… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
Display form factors such as size and shape have been conventionally determined in
consideration of usability and portability. The recent trends requiring wearability and …

Piezoelectric MEMS—Evolution from sensing technology to diversified applications in the 5G/Internet of Things (IoT) era

X Le, Q Shi, P Vachon, EJ Ng… - Journal of Micromechanics …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The rapid development of the fifth-generation mobile networks (5G) and Internet of Things
(IoT) is inseparable from a large number of miniature, low-cost, and low-power sensors and …

Electro-thermal actuation in percolative ferroelectric polymer nanocomposites

Y Liu, Y Zhou, H Qin, T Yang, X Chen, L Li, Z Han… - Nature Materials, 2023 - nature.com
The interconversion between electrical and mechanical energies is pivotal to ferroelectrics
to enable their applications in transducers, actuators and sensors. Ferroelectric polymers …

Dielectric breakdown of oxide films in electronic devices

A Padovani, P La Torraca, J Strand, L Larcher… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Dielectric breakdown is a sudden and catastrophic increase in the conductivity of an
insulator caused by electrical stress. It is one of the major reliability issues in electronic …