{"id":106238,"date":"2020-04-29T16:53:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T23:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/a-new-flexible-piezoelectric-composite-for-3d-printing"},"modified":"2020-04-29T16:53:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T23:53:15","slug":"a-new-flexible-piezoelectric-composite-for-3d-printing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/a-new-flexible-piezoelectric-composite-for-3d-printing","title":{"rendered":"A new flexible piezoelectric composite for 3D printing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-flexible-piezoelectric-composite-for-3d-printing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Peking University, Southern University of Science and Technology and the University of Jinan in China have recently designed a ceramic-polymer composite that can be used to print complex 3D grid architectures. This composite, first presented in a paper published in <i>Nano Energy<\/i>, was found to exhibit a number of desirable properties, including high flexibility and a high electromechanical energy conversion rate.<\/p>\n<p>Piezoelectric ceramic materials, such as Pb(Zr, Ti)O<sub>3<\/sub> (PZT) typically have remarkable electromechanical energy conversion capabilities. However, most of these materials are inherently rigid, which makes them far from ideal for the fabrication of flexible electronics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNormally, <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/piezoelectric+ceramics\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">piezoelectric ceramics<\/a> are brittle, therefore, they are not suitable for integration into flexible electronics directly,\u201d Shuxiang Dong, one of the researchers who carried out the study, told TechXplore. \u201cWe wanted to develop a 3D-printed, soft piezoelectric ceramic composite material that is a heat-curable polymer exhibiting mechanical flexibility and a large electromechanical voltage in response to environmental mechanical vibrations or force stimuli. Luckily, we made it, and our composite has great potential to be used for future soft sensors.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Peking University, Southern University of Science and Technology and the University of Jinan in China have recently designed a ceramic-polymer composite that can be used to print complex 3D grid architectures. This composite, first presented in a paper published in Nano Energy, was found to exhibit a number of desirable properties, including high [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}