Non-piezoelectric effects in piezoresponse force microscopy

D Seol, B Kim, Y Kim - Current Applied Physics, 2017 - Elsevier
Piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) has been used extensively for exploring nanoscale
ferro/piezoelectric phenomena over the past two decades. The imaging mechanism of PFM …

[HTML][HTML] Strain-based scanning probe microscopies for functional materials, biological structures, and electrochemical systems

J Li, JF Li, Q Yu, QN Chen, S Xie - Journal of Materiomics, 2015 - Elsevier
Strain and electromechanical coupling are ubiquitous in nature, and exist in many
processes involved in information technology, energy conversion, and biological …

Two-dimensional lead (II) halide-based hybrid perovskites templated by acene alkylamines: crystal structures, optical properties, and piezoelectricity

K Du, Q Tu, X Zhang, Q Han, J Liu, S Zauscher… - Inorganic …, 2017 - ACS Publications
A series of two-dimensional (2D) hybrid organic–inorganic perovskite (HOIP) crystals, based
on acene alkylamine cations (ie, phenylmethylammonium (PMA), 2-phenylethylammonium …

Stress and Curvature Effects in Layered 2D Ferroelectric CuInP2S6

Y Liu, AN Morozovska, A Ghosh, KP Kelley… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Nanoscale ferroelectric 2D materials offer the opportunity to investigate curvature and strain
effects on materials functionalities. Among these, CuInP2S6 (CIPS) has attracted …

Electrostatic-free piezoresponse force microscopy

S Kim, D Seol, X Lu, M Alexe, Y Kim - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Contact and non-contact based atomic force microscopy (AFM) approaches have been
extensively utilized to explore various nanoscale surface properties. In most AFM-based …

Shear mode ultrasonic transducers from flexible piezoelectric PLLA fibers for structural health monitoring

YM Yousry, VK Wong, R Ji, Y Chen… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Shear mode guided waves are highly demanded for underwater structural health monitoring
(SHM) applications due to their simplified non‐dispersive feature and minimal acoustic …

Review on electromechanical coupling properties of biomaterials

I Chae, CK Jeong, Z Ounaies… - ACS Applied Bio Materials, 2018 - ACS Publications
Electromechanical coupling properties of biological materials, especially cellulose from
plant cell walls and proteins from animals, are of great interest for applications in …

Gold nanoparticle–cellulose/PDMS nanocomposite: A flexible dielectric material for harvesting mechanical energy

M Pusty, PM Shirage - RSC advances, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Cellulose is an abundant natural piezoelectric polymer and is also a renewable resource of
significant importance. Here in this work we realize an enhanced piezoelectric response …

Quantification of surface displacements and electromechanical phenomena via dynamic atomic force microscopy

N Balke, S Jesse, P Yu, B Carmichael… - …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Detection of dynamic surface displacements associated with local changes in material strain
provides access to a number of phenomena and material properties. Contact resonance …

Recent progress in the nanoscale evaluation of piezoelectric and ferroelectric properties via scanning probe microscopy

O Kwon, D Seol, H Qiao, Y Kim - Advanced Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Piezoelectric and ferroelectric materials have garnered significant interest owing to their
excellent physical properties and multiple potential applications. Accordingly, the need for …