Bond engineering of molecular ferroelectrics renders soft and high-performance piezoelectric energy harvesting materials

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 13; no. 1; pp. 5607 - 10
• Main Authors: Hu, Yuzhong, Parida, Kaushik, Zhang, Hao, Wang, Xin, Li, Yongxin, Zhou, Xinran, Morris, Samuel Alexander, Liew, Weng Heng, Wang, Haomin, Li, Tao, Jiang, Feng, Yang, Mingmin, Alexe, Marin, Du, Zehui, Gan, Chee Lip, Yao, Kui, Xu, Bin, Lee, Pooi See, Fan, Hong Jin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 24.09.2022; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 119/118; 142/136; 639/301/119/1002; 639/301/119/996; 639/4077/4072/4062; 639/638/298/917; Bonding strength; Chemical bonds; Crystal structure; Electric potential; Energy; Energy harvesting; Engineering; Ferroelectric materials; Ferroelectricity; Ferroelectrics; Humanities and Social Sciences; Laboratories; Metal halides; multidisciplinary; Phase transitions; Piezoelectricity; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Shear strain; Softness; Solid solutions; Strain; Voltage; Wearable computers; Wearable technology

Piezoelectric materials convert mechanical stress to electrical energy and thus are widely used in energy harvesting and wearable devices. However, in the piezoelectric family, there are two pairs of properties that improving one of them will generally compromises the other, which limits their appli...