Fundamentals of Flexoelectricity, Materials and Emerging Opportunities Toward Strain‐Driven Nanocatalysts

M Kołodziej, N Ojha, M Budziałowski, K Załęski, I Fina… - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Flexoelectricity, an intrinsic property observed in materials under nonuniform deformation,
entails a coupling between polarization and strain gradients. Recent catalyst advancements …

Large Curvature Sensors Based on Flexoelectric Effect in PEDOT: PSS Polymer Films

J Le Scornec, B Guiffard - ACS Materials Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
This paper presents the flexoelectric effect in semiconducting polymeric blend (poly (3, 4-
ethylene dioxythiophene): polystyrene sulfonate (PEDOT: PSS)) films. Flexoelectricity can …

A novel form of imperfect contact laws in flexoelectricity

M Serpilli, R Rizzoni, R Rodríguez-Ramos, F Lebon… - Composite …, 2022 - Elsevier
Flexoelectric materials exhibit coupling between electric polarization and mechanical strain
gradient. At the nano-scale and micro-scale, these materials offer a promising potential for …

Electrostrictive and piezoelectrical properties of chitosan-poly (3-hydroxybutyrate) blend films

CU Toalá, E Prokhorov, GL Barcenas… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Herein, we report the high apparent piezoelectric coefficient for chitosan-poly (3-
hydroxybutyrate)(CS-PHB) blend films. The structure of chitosan-poly (3 …

Tuning the Mechanoelectrical Transduction Performance of Multifunctional Polymer Electrolyte Membranes via Variation of Precursor Molecular Weight

Y Almazrou, H Albehaijan, A Bentalib… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The phenomenon of flexoelectricity generation in response to applied mechanical
deformation via bending of a multifunctional polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) …

Enhancing flexoelectricity in PEDOT: PSS polymer films with soft treatments

M Saadeh, Y Aceta, P Frère, B Guiffard - Journal of Applied Physics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We report the use of poly (3, 4-ethylenedioxythiophene): polystyrene sulfonate (PEDOT:
PSS) as a transducing material in the fabrication of mechanical-to-electrical conversion …