Piezoelectrets for wearable energy harvesters and sensors

X Mo, H Zhou, W Li, Z Xu, J Duan, L Huang, B Hu… - Nano Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
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 …

Ferroelectret materials and devices for energy harvesting applications

Y Zhang, CR Bowen, SK Ghosh, D Mandal… - Nano Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper provides an overview of ferroelectret materials for energy harvesting
applications. These materials take the form of a cellular compliant polymer with polarised …

Ferroelectret nanogenerator with large transverse piezoelectric activity

X Zhang, P Pondrom, GM Sessler, X Ma - Nano energy, 2018 - Elsevier
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 …

Direct 3D printing of piezoelectrets: process feasibility, prototypes fabrication and device performance

X Wang, Z Liu, H Wang, C Zeng - Engineered Science, 2022 - espublisher.com
Piezoelectrets (or piezoelectric polymer foams) are porous piezoelectric materials with a
wide range of applications particularly sensing. They have been successfully fabricated …

Preparation and characterization of piezoelectric foams based on cyclic olefin copolymer

H Wang, Y Li, X Wang, Z Liu, MF Ahmed… - Engineered …, 2021 - espublisher.com
A series of cyclic olefin copolymer (COC) based piezoelectrets are fabricated using a carbon
dioxide assisted assembly process followed by direct contact charging. The effects of both …

Flexible and biocompatible polypropylene ferroelectret nanogenerator (FENG): On the path toward wearable devices powered by human motion

W Li, D Torres, T Wang, C Wang, N Sepúlveda - Nano energy, 2016 - Elsevier
Recently, there has been tremendous research efforts on the development of energy
harvesters that can scavenge energy from ubiquitous forms of mechanical energy. The most …

Biodegradable cellular polylactic acid ferroelectrets with strong longitudinal and transverse piezoelectricity

S Zhukov, X Ma, H Seggern, GM Sessler… - Applied Physics …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Polymers with electrically charged internal air cavities (ferroelectrets) reveal a pronounced
piezoelectric response and are regarded as soft electroactive multi-functional materials. This …

Ferroelectrets: Recent developments

X Qiu, Y Bian, J Liu, Y Xiang, T Ding, W Zhu… - IET …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Ferroelectrets (also called piezoelectrets) are relatively young members in the family of
piezo‐, pyro‐and ferroelectric materials. They exhibit ferroic behaviour phenomenologically …

Piezoelectrets from cyclic olefin copolymers with different mechanical and thermomechanical properties: a comparative study

H Wang, X Wang, Y Li, Z Liu, MF Ahmed… - Engineered …, 2023 - espublisher.com
This paper reports on the fabrication and characterization of piezoelectrets using three types
of cyclic olefin copolymers (COCs). The COCs (COC 6017, 6013, 8007) differ considerably …

An electro-mechanical coupled model for 3D printed piezoelectrets: development, validation, and prediction

X Wang, Z Liu, H Wang, C Zeng - Engineered Science, 2023 - espublisher.com
Piezoelectric polymer foams (Piezoelectrets) are space-charged porous materials with a
wide range of applications. Mathematical models have been developed to understand the …