Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Soft chromophore featured liquid porphyrins and their utilization toward liquid electret applications

  • Avijit Ghosh,
  • Manabu Yoshida,
  • Kouji Suemori,
  • Hiroaki Isago,
  • Nagao Kobayashi,
  • Yasuhisa Mizutani,
  • Yuki Kurashige,
  • Izuru Kawamura,
  • Masami Nirei,
  • Osamu Yamamuro,
  • Tomohisa Takaya,
  • Koichi Iwata,
  • Akinori Saeki,
  • Kazuhiko Nagura,
  • Shinsuke Ishihara,
  • Takashi Nakanishi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12249-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Though electret materials are attractive for realizing flexible mechanoelectrical devices, these materials are typically solid films. Here, the authors report stretchable ‘liquid-electret’ devices consisting solvent-free liquid porphyrins that show piezoelectric and electroacoustic functionality.