Could clothing monitor a person's health in real time, because the clothing itself is a self-powered sensor? A new material ...

But even the material described in the MIT paper isn’t unheard of: the speakers use polyvinylidene fluoride film (PVDF), which has piezoelectric properties and has been used for speakers since ...

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But PVDF’s electrical properties can break down when exposed to higher temperatures, and it requires high voltages to flip its polarization. Now, in a paper published in Nature, researchers at ...

PVDF material is a thin plastic polymer sheet with its molecules aligned in a uniform pattern. It has a electrically conductive coating deposited on each side of the sheet.

The proposed flexible sensor design involves the stepwise electrospinning of a composite 2D nanofiber membrane. First, polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) nanofibers with diameters in the order of 200 nm ...

To thin the PVDF material to micrometer scale while preserving its piezoelectric properties, Wang's team used an ion-etching process. Wang believes that, with improvements, the thickness of the ...

By enhancing this polar phase, which is responsible for the piezoelectric effect observed in PVDF materials, the piezoelectric performance of the sensors was significantly improved.