Polymer based MEMS and microfluidic devices have the advantages of mechanical
flexibility, lower fabrication cost and faster processing over silicon based ones. Also, many …

Wearable electronics have attracted attention for their potential use in constructing a human-
centered intelligent world. As one of the most promising materials for constructing high …

Dielectrics in Electric Fields explores the influence of electric fields on dielectric—ie, non-
conducting or insulating—materials, examining the distinctive behaviors of these materials …

Energy harvesting from vibrations enables power delivery to low-energy electronics for
autonomous devices, wearables, as well as wireless and remote sensing. Here we present …

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 …

Cellular space charge polymer electrets significantly enlarge the basis of pyro-and
piezoelectric as well as ferroic materials. Since the first review of the field has been …

Due to their electrically polarized air‐filled internal pores, optimized ferroelectrets exhibit a
remarkable piezoelectric response, making them suitable for energy harvesting. Expanded …

Layered fluoroethylenepropylene (FEP) ferroelectret films with cross-tunnel structure were
fabricated from sheets of FEP films by template-patterning followed by a fusion-bonding …

An electret-based mechanical antenna (EBMA), which can transmit extremely low frequency
(ELF) electromagnetic signals, has the advantages of miniaturization and high transmitting …

In contrast to molecular-dipole polymers, such as PVDF, ferroelectrets are a new class of
flexible spatially heterogeneous piezoelectric polymers with closed or open voids that act as …