Smart materials, which exhibit piezoelectricity, find an eclectic range of applications in the
industry. The direct piezoelectric effect has been widely used in sensor design, and the …

This paper reviews the potential of polymer and ceramic matrix composites for
aerospace/space vehicle applications. Special, unique and multifunctional properties arising …

Some composites fabricated with PVDF (Poly-Vinyl-difluoride) and BFO (BiFeO 3) in 0–3
connectivity have been fabricated by a solution-casting method. The existence of all three …

The polymer blend (PB) films consisted of poly (vinylidene fluoride)(PVDF) and poly
(ethylene oxide)(PEO) with different compositional ratios (ie, PVDF/PEO= 100/0, 75/25 …

Discovered in 2006, nanogenerators have attracted much attention as promising energy-
harvesting devices. They harness energy utilizing piezoelectric, pyroelectric, and …

Ferroelectric lead-free NaNbO 3-based ceramics are the most promising candidates to a
wide range of advanced technological applications as sensors, transducers and actuators …

This paper presents for the first time an extended Mori-Tanaka approach aimed at identifying
the little-explored piezoelectric response of unidirectional nanoporous composites with …

A novel approach is explored by mixing a giant dielectric constant ceramic powder CaCu 3
Ti 4 O 12 (CCTO) with varying concentrations of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF). The …

The study extends the locally-exact homogenization theory (LEHT) to determine the effective
parameters and localized multiphysics fields of unidirectional piezoelectric nanocomposites …

ABSTRACT Ferroelectric PZT-PVDF composites (0–3 connectivity) of specific dimensions
were made utilizing a hot press technique. Linear variation in the experimental density of the …