Smart and multifunctional materials based on electroactive poly (vinylidene fluoride): recent advances and opportunities in sensors, actuators, energy, environmental …

CM Costa, VF Cardoso, P Martins, DM Correia… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
From scientific and technological points of view, poly (vinylidene fluoride), PVDF, is one of
the most exciting polymers due to its overall physicochemical characteristics. This polymer …

Biopolymeric sustainable materials and their emerging applications

ZU Arif, MY Khalid, MF Sheikh, A Zolfagharian… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Advancements in polymer science and engineering have helped the scientific community to
shift its attention towards the use of environmentally benign materials for reducing the …

Additive manufacturing of smart polymeric composites: Literature review and future perspectives

H Ikram, A Al Rashid, M Koç - Polymer Composites, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The latest developments in smart systems for improved human lives with advanced
biomedical devices have evolved out of multi‐disciplinary scientific studies, including …

3D/4D printed bio-piezoelectric smart scaffolds for next-generation bone tissue engineering

A Chen, J Su, Y Li, H Zhang, Y Shi… - International Journal of …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Piezoelectricity in native bones has been well recognized as the key factor in bone
regeneration. Thus, bio-piezoelectric materials have gained substantial attention in repairing …

Piezoelectric effect polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF): from energy harvester to smart skin and electronic textiles

Z Feng, Z Zhao, Y Liu, Y Liu, X Cao… - Advanced Materials …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
With the great demand for flexible self‐powered sensors and nanogenerators,
polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) is widely investigated for outstanding piezoelectric and …

Three-dimensional nonlinear stability analysis of axial-thermal-electrical loaded FG piezoelectric microshells via MKM strain gradient formulations

R Alshenawy, S Sahmani, B Safaei… - Applied Mathematics …, 2023 - Elsevier
The present study focuses on the moving Kriging meshfree (MKM) technique combined with
the three-dimensional strain gradient continuum mechanics to analyze three-dimensional …

Production of polyacrylonitrile/ionic covalent organic framework hybrid nanofibers for effective removal of chromium (VI) from water

A Herath, M Salehi, S Jansone-Popova - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Hexavalent Cr (VI) found in industrial wastewater is a proven carcinogen which causes
serious health issues in humans around the world. This study presents a novel method to …

Piezoelectric energy harvesting and dissipating behaviors of polymer-based piezoelectric composites for nanogenerators and dampers

W Chen, Q Zheng, YA Lv, Y Chen, Q Fan… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Polymer-based piezoelectric composites (PPCs) demonstrate superior mechanical-
vibrational energy harvesting and dissipating (EHD) capabilities. Piezoelectric materials …

Stretchable nanofibers of polyvinylidenefluoride (PVDF)/thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) nanocomposite to support piezoelectric response via mechanical elasticity

N Shehata, R Nair, R Boualayan, I Kandas… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Interest in piezoelectric nanocomposites has been vastly growing in the energy harvesting
field. They are applied in wearable electronics, mechanical actuators, and …

Electrospinning of fluorinated polymers: current state of the art on processes and applications

P Kianfar, R Bongiovanni, B Ameduri, A Vitale - Polymer Reviews, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Electrospinning is a unique and versatile technique to produce fine submicrometric fibers
and nanofibrous membranes from polymer solution or melt. In the last decade, fluorinated …