This study is led by Dr. Yang Shen (State Key Lab of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University). The team ...

Toray Industries has developed a piezoelectric polymer with heat resistance exceeding 200°C. The company’s survey of commercially available products indicates that this is the first material of its ...

An international research group has engineered a new energy-generating device by combining piezoelectric composites with carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP), a commonly used material that is both ...

Piezoelectric technology is critical for flexible devices like wearable health trackers and small energy harvesters, with core polymer components converting body movement, pressure, or vibrations into ...

Biohybrid Solutions is pioneering a new approach to bioconjugate production using polymer-based protein engineering. This innovation allows more control, expands the available polymer library, and ...

Albuquerque, N.M. — For the past three years a Sandia research team headed by Mat Celina has been investigating the performance of various piezoelectric polymer films that might one day serve as ultra ...

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 ...

Bioengineers have developed biocompatible generators that create electrical pulses when compressed by body motions. The generators are made up of self-assembling "piezoelectric wafers" which can be ...