Polymer dielectrics are attracting increasing attention for electrical energy storage owing to
their advantages of mechanical flexibility, corrosion resistance, facile processability, light …

This article reviews the developments in electrostrictive polymers for energy harvesting.
Electrostrictive polymers are a variety of electroactive polymers that deform due to the …

Since the last decade, piezoelectric polymer nanofibers have been of great interest in the
stimulation of cell growth and proliferation for tissue engineering and wound healing …

Dielectric elastomers are being developed as generators to harvest energy from renewable
sources, such as human movements and ocean waves. We model a generator as a system …

In addition to the rapid urbanization and industrialization around the world, air pollution due
to particulate matter is a substantial threat to human health. A considerable research effort …

Electroactive polymers, generally used as actuators, offer very promising levels of
performance in sensor mode, particularly in scavenging ambient mechanical energy …

This paper presents for the first time that poly (l‐lactic acid)(PLLA) nanofibers can show the
piezoelectricity along the fiber direction (d33) by using an electrospinning method. First, the …

A piezoelectric nanocomposite film is designed to convert daily human activities and
acoustic vibrations into usable electrical energy. The nanoparticles (NPs) of titanium dioxide …

In this investigation, it is showed for the first time that a piezoelectric poly‐(l‐lactic
acid)(PLLA) unimorph based cantilever device is utilized in energy harvesting applications …

Electric potential plays an indispensable role in tissue engineering and wound healing.
Piezoelectric nanogenerators based on direct piezoelectric effects can be self-powered …