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Piezoelectricity and Electrostriction

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Electromechanically Active Polymers

Part of the book series: Polymers and Polymeric Composites: A Reference Series ((POPOC))

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In this chapter, fundamental aspects of piezoelectricity and electrostriction in dielectric materials and especially in polymers will be outlined. In order to make the introduction into the subject easier to access, basic and schematic ways of describing the complex matter have been chosen instead of an elaborate or comprehensive theoretical approach. For more detailed and more precise information, the interested reader is referred to the large volume of available original and review literature and to other relevant chapters of this book.

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Acknowledgments

The author is very much indebted to Ruy Altafim, Heitor Basso, Siegfried Bauer, Simona Bauer-Gogonea, the late Dilip Das-Gupta, Takeo Furukawa, the late Bernhard Gross, Sidney Lang, the late Guilherme Leal Ferreira, Axel Mellinger, the late Martin Perlman, Xunlin Qiu, Wei Ren, Dmitry Rychkov, Gerhard Sessler, Zhongfu Xia, and Werner Wirges for many years of fruitful collaborations and stimulating discussions on the topics of this chapter.

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Gerhard, R. (2016). Piezoelectricity and Electrostriction. In: Carpi, F. (eds) Electromechanically Active Polymers. Polymers and Polymeric Composites: A Reference Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31767-0_21-1

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