A lot of it comes down to special materials called piezoelectrics. Now, imagine being able to 3D print these materials into ...

PVDF is a thermoplastic polymer known for its piezoelectric properties, making it widely used in sensors and actuators. However, pure PVDF predominantly exists in the non-polar α-phase, which limits ...

Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) is a piezoelectric polymer material that has shown great aptitude as a pressure and flow sensor, especially in biomedical applications. However, most of the PVDF thin ...

The underlying mechanism improving piezoelectricity via interfacial polarization is elucidated through combining the experimental results, molecular dynamics simulations and density functional theory ...

(Nanowerk News) Flexible piezoelectric sensors are essential to monitor the motions of both humans and humanoid robots. However, existing designs are either are costly or have limited sensitivity. In ...

A research team led by Dr. Lim Sang-kyu in DGIST's Department of Energy and Environmental Technology has developed a smart fiber sensor that can detect natural disasters such as landslides in real ...

How researchers are modifying basic materials to enhance and tailor transducer performance. Efforts and results achieved with piezoelectric materials. Efforts and results achieved with triboelectric ...

Researchers developed a piezoelectric polymer/ceramic composite fiber with a cross-sectional form that is uniformly controlled to allow the use of energy harvesting technologies that can recycle ...

Anyone looking for ultra-thin speakers to include in their projects may be interested in a revolutionary design that takes the form of PVDF Piezo Film speakers. The Piezo Film speakers are thinner ...

Figure 1. Landscape of popular fluoropolymers. PVDF is a homopolymer produced from the joining of identical monomer units. PVDF is closely related to PCTFE and PTFE. PVDF has some unique ...