Materials as machines

JM McCracken, BR Donovan, TJ White - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Machines are systems that harness input power to extend or advance function.
Fundamentally, machines are based on the integration of materials with mechanisms to …

Self-powered environmental monitoring via a triboelectric nanogenerator

A Chang, C Uy, X **ao, J Chen - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
With air pollution increasing around 75% in the past 30 years, 80% of the globe's wasted
water flowing into Earth's oceans and rivers untreated, and more than 22 million hectares of …

Nanoparticle-enhanced β-phase formation in electroactive PVDF composites: a review of systems for applications in energy harvesting, EMI shielding, and membrane …

A Gebrekrstos, TS Muzata, SS Ray - ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2022 - ACS Publications
With the continuous advancement of electronic devices, lightweight, flexible, and easily
processable materials have gained substantial techno-commercial importance. Most …

High‐performance poly (vinylidene difluoride)/dopamine core/shell piezoelectric nanofiber and its application for biomedical sensors

T Li, M Qu, C Carlos, L Gu, F **, T Yuan… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Fabrication of soft piezoelectric nanomaterials is essential for the development of wearable
and implantable biomedical devices. However, a big challenge in this soft functional …

Flexible Piezoelectric Pressure Tactile Sensor Based on Electrospun BaTiO3/Poly(vinylidene fluoride) Nanocomposite Membrane

J Jiang, S Tu, R Fu, J Li, F Hu, B Yan… - ACS applied materials …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Poly (vinylidene fluoride)(PVDF)-based piezoelectric materials are promising candidates for
sensors, transducers, and actuators, due to several distinctive characteristics such as good …

A review on piezo-and pyroelectric responses of flexible nano-and micropatterned polymer surfaces for biomedical sensing and energy harvesting applications

RA Surmenev, RV Chernozem, IO Pariy… - Nano Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
This review summarises the most recent advances in the application of anodic aluminium
oxide (AAO) membranes as templates to prepare poly (vinylidenefluoride)-(PVDF) or poly …

An overview of lead-free piezoelectric materials and devices

H Wei, H Wang, Y **a, D Cui, Y Shi, M Dong… - Journal of Materials …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Piezoelectric materials and devices have drawn extensive attention for energy harvesting
due to their excellent electromechanical conversion properties. With increasing concerns …

Multiscale-structuring of polyvinylidene fluoride for energy harvesting: the impact of molecular-, micro-and macro-structure

C Wan, CR Bowen - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Energy harvesting exploits ambient sources of energy such as mechanical loads, vibrations,
human motion, waste heat, light or chemical sources and converts them into useful electrical …

Hybrid lead-free polymer-based nanocomposites with improved piezoelectric response for biomedical energy-harvesting applications: A review

RA Surmenev, T Orlova, RV Chernozem, AA Ivanova… - Nano Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Lead-free alternative materials for converting mechanical energy into electrical energy
through piezoelectric transduction are of significant value in a diverse range of technological …

Piezoelectric polymer and paper substrates: a review

KK Sappati, S Bhadra - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
Polymers and papers, which exhibit piezoelectricity, find a wide range of applications in the
industry. Ever since the discovery of PVDF, piezo polymers and papers have been widely …