Piezoelectric Nanoparticle鈥揚olymer Composite Foams
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- 作者：William R. McCall ; Kanguk Kim ; Cory Heath ; Gina La Pierre ; Donald J. Sirbuly
- 刊名：ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
- 出版年：2014
- 出版时间：November 26, 2014
- 年：2014
- 卷：6
- 期：22
- 页码：19504-19509
- 全文大小：322K
- ISSN：1944-8252
文摘
Piezoelectric polymer composite foams are synthesized using different sugar-templating strategies. By incorporating sugar grains directly into polydimethylsiloxane mixtures containing barium titanate nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes, followed by removal of the sugar after polymer curing, highly compliant materials with excellent piezoelectric properties can be fabricated. Porosities and elasticity are tuned by simply adjusting the sugar/polymer mass ratio which gave an upper bound on the porosity of 73% and a lower bound on the elastic coefficient of 32 kPa. The electrical performance of the foams showed a direct relationship between porosity and the piezoelectric outputs, giving piezoelectric coefficient values of 鈭?12 pC/N and a power output of 鈭?8 mW/cm3 under a load of 10 N for the highest porosity samples. These novel materials should find exciting use in a variety of applications including energy scavenging platforms, biosensors, and acoustic actuators.r>