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Piezoelectric polymer thin films with architected cuts

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Introducing architected cuts is an attractive and simple approach to tune mechanical behaviors of planar materials like thin films for desirable or enhanced mechanical performance. However, little has been studied on the effects of architected cuts on functional materials like piezoelectric materials. We investigated how architected cut patterns affect mechanical and piezoelectric properties of polyvinylidene fluoride thin films by numerical, experimental, and analytical studies. Our results show that thin films with architected cuts can provide desired mechanical features like enhanced compliance, stretchability, and controllable Poisson’s ratio and resonance frequency, while maintaining piezoelectric performance under static loadings. Moreover, we could observe maximum ∼30% improvement in piezoelectric conversion efficiency under dynamic loadings and harvest energy from low frequency (<100 Hz) mechanical signals or low velocity (<5 m/s) winds, which are commonly existing in ambient environment. Using architected cuts doesn’t require changing the material or overall dimensions, making it attractive for applications in self-powered devices with design constraints.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This work was supported by the start-up fund from the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University and the scholarship by China Scholarship Council (CSC) (J. Li). We would like to thank Dr. Shu Guo and Dr. Ugur Erturun (Johns Hopkins University) for their helpful advice.

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    Lichen Fang, Jing Li, Zeyu Zhu, Santiago Orrego & Sung Hoon Kang

  2. Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, 21218, USA

    Lichen Fang, Jing Li, Zeyu Zhu, Santiago Orrego & Sung Hoon Kang

  3. Hubei Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Automotive Components, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430070, China

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Fang, L., Li, J., Zhu, Z. et al. Piezoelectric polymer thin films with architected cuts. Journal of Materials Research 33, 330–342 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2018.6

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