Shear Piezoelectricity in Poly(vinylidenefluoride-co-trifluoroethylene): Full Piezotensor Coefficients by Molecular Modeling, Biaxial Transverse Response, and Use in Suspended Energy-Harvesting Nanostructures

Luana Persano*, Alessandra Catellani, Canan Dagdeviren, Yinji Ma, Xiaogang Guo, Yonggang Huang, Arrigo Calzolari, Dario Pisignano

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22 Scopus citations
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)7633-7639
Number of pages7
JournalAdvanced Materials
Volume28
Issue number35
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2016

Funding

L.P. and C.D. thank Prof. J. A. Rogers for helpful discussion and continued support. The research leading to these results received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013)/ERC Grant Agreements No. 306357 (ERC Starting Grant “NANO-JETS”). The authors also acknowledge the EU Marie-Curie Initial Training Network Grant Agreement No. 265073 (ITN-Nanowiring) and the CNR 2015 Adjustment Program at S3/ECMT. Y.M. acknowledges the support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11402135). Y.H. acknowledges the support from NSF (CMMI-1300846 and CMMI-1400169) and the NIH (Grant No. R01EB019337).

Keywords

  • electromechanical coupling
  • electrospinning
  • piezoelectric properties
  • polymer nanofibers

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Materials Science
  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Mechanical Engineering

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