Abstract Poly (vinylidene fluoride), PVDF, and its copolymers are the family of polymers with
the highest dielectric constant and electroactive response, including piezoelectric …

Flexoelectricity—the coupling between polarization and strain gradients—is a universal
effect allowed by symmetry in all materials. Following its discovery several decades ago …

Electromechanical effects are ubiquitous in biological and materials systems. Understanding
the fundamentals of these coupling phenomena is critical to devising next‐generation …

Flexoelectricity, as a fundamental electromechanical coupling effect between electric
polarization and mechanical strain gradient, or vice versa between electric polarization …

The flexoelectricity of several thermoplastic and thermosetting polymers was investigated by
testing the dielectric polarization response under bending deformation of polymer …

Bent-core (BC) materials that form nematic liquid crystals (BC nematics (BCNs)) are known
only since 2000, but since then they have been intensively studied. In this review we give a …

We report observation of the giant direct flexoelectric effect in α-phase polyvinylidene
fluoride (PVDF) films. This unexpected phenomenon was detected in the α-phase PVDF film …

Soft materials that exhibit electromechanical coupling are an important element in the
development of soft robotics, flexible and stretchable electronics, energy harvesters, sensor …

The flexoelectric effect, which exists in all dielectrics, is an electromechanical effect that
arises due to the coupling of strain gradients (or electric field gradients) with electric …

This paper develops a computational framework with unfitted meshes to solve linear
piezoelectricity and flexoelectricity electromechanical boundary value problems including …