Piezoelectricity is a property of certain materials to become electrically polarized under strain and stress. This phenomenon has been studied extensively since it was first discovered in the mid-18 ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Steve Son, a professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University, has received a $7.5 million grant by the Air Force Office ...

Integrating a complex, single-crystal material with "giant" piezoelectric properties onto silicon, engineers and physicists can fabricate low-voltage, near-nanoscale electromechanical devices that ...

A novel piezoelectric film made from polyethylene (PE) reportedly combines mechanical flexibility with a very high piezoelectric response. In fact, it reportedly doubles the properties of commercially ...

The study of wave propagation in viscoelastic and piezoelectric materials is pivotal in advancing modern sensor and actuator technologies. Viscoelastic materials, which display both viscous flow and ...

The increasing miniaturization and sophistication of electronic products, ranging from consumer media devices to medical diagnostic tools to defense-related sonar applications, presents a bounty of ...

New printing technique and materials could be used to develop intelligent materials and self-adaptive infrastructures and transducers. The piezoelectric materials that inhabit everything from our cell ...

Before humans discovered ultrasound for a variety of medical, technical and military applications, nature had perfected it over millions of years for navigation under and above water. Dolphins and ...