Cellular polymer ferroelectret: a review on their development and their piezoelectric properties

A Mohebbi, F Mighri, A Ajji… - Advances in Polymer …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Because of their ability to show ferroelectret behavior when exposed to an external electric
field, cellular polymers have been recently considered for ferroelectret applications. These …

[HTML][HTML] Patterned piezo-, pyro-, and ferroelectricity of poled polymer electrets

X Qiu - Journal of Applied physics, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
Polymers with strong piezo-, pyro-, and ferroelectricity are attractive for a wide range of
applications. In particular, semicrystalline ferroelectric polymers are suitable for a large …

Fabrication, structure characterization, and performance testing of piezoelectret-film sensors for recording body motion

P Fang, X Ma, X Li, X Qiu, R Gerhard… - IEEE Sensors …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
During muscle contractions, radial-force distributions are generated on muscle surfaces due
to muscle-volume changes, from which the corresponding body motions can be recorded by …

[PDF][PDF] Piezoelectric cellular polymer films: Fabrication, properties and applications

O Hamdi, F Mighri, D Rodrigue - AIMS Mater. Sci, 2018 - aimspress.com
Piezoelectric cellular polymer films: Fabrication, properties and applications Page 1 AIMS
Materials Science, 5(5): 845–869. DOI: 10.3934/matersci.2018.5.845 Received: 26 June …

Ice-templated poly (vinylidene fluoride) ferroelectrets

Y Zhang, CR Bowen, S Deville - Soft Matter, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Ferroelectrets are piezoelectrically-active polymer foams that can convert externally applied
loads into electric charge for sensor or energy harvesting applications. Existing processing …

Direct hysteresis measurements on ferroelectret films by means of a modified Sawyer–Tower circuit

X Qiu, L Holländer, W Wirges, R Gerhard… - Journal of Applied …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Ferro-and piezo-electrets are non-polar polymer foams or film systems with internally
charged cavities. Since their invention more than two decades ago, ferroelectrets have …

[PDF][PDF] Ferroelectrets: Heterogenous polymer electrets with high piezoelectric sensitivity for transducers.

X Qiu, P Fang, A Mellinger, RAP Altafim… - Journal of Advanced …, 2023 - researching.cn
Nowadays, the demand for advanced functional materials in transducer technology is
growing rapidly. Piezoelectric materials transform mechanical variables (displacement or …

Turning polymer foams or polymer-film systems into ferroelectrets: dielectric barrier discharges in voids

X Qiu, R Gerhard, A Mellinger - IEEE Transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Polymer foams and void-containing polymer-film systems with internally charged voids
combine large piezoelectricity with mechanical flexibility and elastic compliance. This new …

Flexible film-transducers based on polypropylene piezoelectrets: Fabrication, properties, and applications in wearable devices

X Ma, X Zhang, P Fang - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2017 - Elsevier
In this work, piezoelectrets were prepared by the microstructure modification and corona
charging of polypropylene (PP) foam sheets, and film-transducers based on such fabricated …

Optimization of the cellular morphology of biaxially stretched thin polyethylene foams produced by extrusion film blowing

O Hamdi, F Mighri, D Rodrigue - Cellular Polymers, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
This work presents the production of cellular polymer films using extrusion blowing to
impose biaxial stretching on the cellular structure while processing. The materials selected …