The process of bone repair and regeneration requires multiple physiological cues including
biochemical, electrical and mechanical-that act together to ensure functional recovery …

The discovery of piezoelectricity, endogenous electric fields and transmembrane potentials
in biological tissues raised the question whether or not electric fields play an important role …

Polymer nanocomposites with nanoparticles dispersed in polymer matrices have attracted
extensive attention due to their significantly improved overall performance, in which the …

PVDF+ WS2 fibers were fabricated via an electrospinning method and utilised as sample
materials to explore the effect of structure on catalytic activity. It is discovered that the …

In this work, switching dynamics of poly (vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene)[P (VDF-TrFE)]
copolymer films are investigated over unprecedentedly wide ranges of temperature and …

Piezoelectricity is considered to be one of the key functionalities in biomaterials to boost
bone tissue regeneration, however, integrating biocompatibility, biodegradability and 3D …

1D nanostructures of soft ferroelectric materials exert promising potential in the fields of
energy harvesting and flexible and printed nanoelectronics. Here, improved piezoelectric …

Using high-throughput first-principles calculations to search for layered van der Waals
materials with the largest piezoelectric stress coefficients, we discover NbOI2 to be the one …

Piezoelectric properties of rat tail tendons, sectioned at angles of 0, 59, and 90° relative to
the plane orthogonal to the major axis, were measured using piezoresponse force …

Piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) probes the mechanical deformation of a sample in
response to an electric field applied with the tip of an atomic force microscope. Originally …