Piezoelectricity in crystallizing ferroelectric polymers: Poly (vinylidene fluoride) and its copolymers (A review)

VV Kochervinskii - Crystallography Reports, 2003 - Springer
The piezoelectricity observed in poly (vinylidene fluoride)(PVDF) and its copolymers
involves three components that are associated with the presence of at least two phases …

An all-organic composite actuator material with a high dielectric constant

QM Zhang, H Li, M Poh, F Xia, ZY Cheng, H Xu… - Nature, 2002 - nature.com
Electroactive polymers (EAPs) can behave as actuators, changing their shape in response
to electrical stimulation. EAPs that are controlled by external electric fields—referred to here …

Strong piezoelectricity in single-layer graphene deposited on SiO2 grating substrates

G da Cunha Rodrigues, P Zelenovskiy… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Electromechanical response of materials is a key property for various applications ranging
from actuators to sophisticated nanoelectromechanical systems. Here electromechanical …

High-dielectric-constant all-polymer percolative composites

C Huang, QM Zhang, J Su - Applied Physics Letters, 2003 - pubs.aip.org
We report here an all-polymer high-dielectric dielectric constant K 1000 at 1 kHz percolative
composite material, fabricated by a combination of conductive polyaniline particles (K 105) …

Wrinkled polypyrrole electrode for electroactive polymer actuators

M Watanabe, H Shirai, T Hirai - Journal of Applied Physics, 2002 - pubs.aip.org
As an electrode for a bending-electrostrictive polyurethane actuator, we prepared a wrinkled
polypyrrole electrode, expecting the following two effects because the wrinkled electrode …

Poly (vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene) based high performance electroactive polymers

C Huang, R Klein, F Xia, H Li, QM Zhang… - … on Dielectrics and …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Making use of defects modification to P (VDF-TrFE) via either high energy electron
irradiation treatment or copolymerizing VDF-TrFE with a small amount of chlorinated …

Characterization of the effective electrostriction coefficients in ferroelectric thin films

AL Kholkin, EK Akdogan, A Safari, PF Chauvy… - Journal of Applied …, 2001 - pubs.aip.org
Electromechanical properties of a number of ferroelectric films including PbZr x Ti 1− x O 3
(PZT), 0.9 PbMg 1/3 Nb 2/3 O 3–0.1 PbTiO 3 (PMN-PT), and SrBi 2 Ta 2 O 9 (SBT) are …

Field-activated electroactive polymers

Z Cheng, Q Zhang - MRS bulletin, 2008 - cambridge.org
Field-activated electroactive polymers (FEAPs) are a class of electroactive polymers that are
insulating and exhibit coulombic interaction with and dipole formation in response to …

Testing time-predictable earthquake recurrence by direct measurement of strain accumulation and release

J Murray, P Segall - Nature, 2002 - nature.com
Probabilistic estimates of earthquake hazard use various models for the temporal
distribution of earthquakes, including the 'time-predictable'recurrence model formulated by …

All‐Solid‐State Electro‐Chemo‐Mechanical Actuator Operating at Room Temperature

E Makagon, E Wachtel, L Houben… - Advanced functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Dimensional change in a solid due to electrochemically driven compositional change is
termed electro‐chemo‐mechanical (ECM) coupling. This effect causes mechanical …