Silica-based ceramics have been explored extensively as a class of versatile materials for
various applications in architecture, catalysis, energy, machinery, and biomedical …

The research community is in permanent search of novel materials and exploitation of
already elaborated phenomena to reveal yet unknown materials characteristics …

All dielectric materials including ceramics, semiconductors, biomaterials, and polymers have
the property of flexoelectricity, which opens a fertile avenue to sensing, actuation, and …

Fluoropolymers, including polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE, Teflon), polyvinylidene difluoride
(PVDF), and fluorine kautschuk materials (FKMs, Viton) are critical polymers for applications …

The flexoelectric effect, as a novel form of the electromechanical coupling phenomenon, has
attracted significant attention in the fields of materials science and electronic devices. It …

Materials are of prime importance for designing and manufacturing structures and
components in numerous industries, including aviation, aerospace, military, automotive …

This work for the first time combines the theory of high-order shear deformation and the
phase-field approach to simulate the free vibration response of cracked nanoplates taking …

A new triple-layer phononic crystal (PC) composite beam model is proposed, which binds
two piezomagnetic layers to conventional PCs coupling the microstructure and flexoelectric …

A new model is developed for thermally induced redistributions of free carriers in
flexoelectric semiconductor beams using a thermoflexotronic theory. This theory, which …

In dielectric materials, due to the flexoelectric effect, a large inhomogeneous deformation
can break or significantly alter the inversion symmetry of the material and induce net …