Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

Multi-scale characterisation of a ferroelectric polymer reveals the emergence of a morphological phase transition driven by temperature

  • Jonas Hafner,
  • Simone Benaglia,
  • Filipe Richheimer,
  • Marco Teuschel,
  • Franz J. Maier,
  • Artner Werner,
  • Sebastian Wood,
  • Daniel Platz,
  • Michael Schneider,
  • Klaudia Hradil,
  • Fernando A. Castro,
  • Ricardo Garcia,
  • Ulrich Schmid

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20407-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Ferroelectric polymeric materials possess intermixture of crystalline and amorphous regions with complex Curie transition. Here, the authors demonstrate that the semi-crystalline morphology of the ferroelectric copolymer of P(VDF-TrFE) strongly affects its Curie transition.