Soft materials for linear electromechanical energy conversion
Antal Jakli, Nandor Eber
TL;DR
This paper reviews the linear electromechanical effects in soft materials like polymers and liquid crystals, focusing on piezoelectricity and flexoelectricity, highlighting recent research and potential applications.
Contribution
It provides a comprehensive overview of recent findings on linear electromechanical coupling in soft materials, emphasizing piezoelectric and flexoelectric effects.
Findings
Summary of direct and converse piezoelectricity in soft materials
Discussion of bending-induced polarization, or flexoelectricity
Highlights of recent experimental and theoretical advances
Abstract
We briefly review the literature of linear electromechanical effects of soft materials, especially in synthetic and biological polymers and liquid crystals (LCs). First we describe results on direct and converse piezoelectricity, and then we discuss a linear coupling between bending and electric polarization, which maybe called bending piezoelectricity, or flexoelectricity.
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