The past decade has witnessed the tremendous scientific and technological potential of
nanoscale flexoelectricity in solids. The flexoelectric effect describes the universal …

Soft robotics requires materials that are capable of large deformation and amenable to
actuation with external stimuli such as electric fields. Energy harvesting, biomedical devices …

We present a formulation for calculating the transversal flexoelectric coefficient of
nanostructures at finite deformations from first principles. Specifically, we introduce the …

Flexoelectricity is a universal and size-dependent electromechanical phenomenon coupling
the electric field with strain gradient in dielectric materials. we establishe a mixed variational …

We study the flexoelectric effect in fifty-four select atomic monolayers using ab initio Density
Functional Theory (DFT). Specifically, considering representative materials from each of the …

We first revisit the mathematical modeling of the flexoelectric effect in the context of
continuum mechanics at infinitesimal deformations. We establish and clarify the relation …

The present work proposes a unified model for studying the dynamical flexoelectricity by
including effects of the micro-inertia, the dynamical polarization, and the dynamical …

Remodelling is an important process in bones in order to maintain bone mass and to
recover cracks which naturally develop within the bone material. There is agreement in the …

This paper presents a novel in-silico framework for the design of flexoelectric energy
harvesters at finite strains using topology optimisation. The main ingredients of this work can …

Flexoelectric sensors respond with an electric polarization when they are subjected to
inhomogeneous deformation. When these are based on polymeric materials, the electro …