Nature Communications (Sep 2022)

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

  • Yuzhong Hu,
  • Kaushik Parida,
  • Hao Zhang,
  • Xin Wang,
  • Yongxin Li,
  • Xinran Zhou,
  • Samuel Alexander Morris,
  • Weng Heng Liew,
  • Haomin Wang,
  • Tao Li,
  • Feng Jiang,
  • Mingmin Yang,
  • Marin Alexe,
  • Zehui Du,
  • Chee Lip Gan,
  • Kui Yao,
  • Bin Xu,
  • Pooi See Lee,
  • Hong Jin Fan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33325-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Improving piezoelectric strain and voltage constant generally compromises piezoelectric performance and mechanical softness. Here, the authors report a bond weakening strategy for organic-inorganic hybrid piezoelectrics and mitigated these issues.