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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL
Volume 60, Issue 3, Pages 441-445Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2013.2587
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- National Institutes of Health [R01-EY018387-02]
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Electromechanical properties of the relaxor ferroelectric poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene-chlorofluoroethylene) [P(VDF-TrFE-CFE)] terpolymer blended with a small amount of poly(vinylidene fluoride-chlorotrifluoroethylene) [P(VDF-CTFE)] copolymer, which possesses a much higher elastic modulus than that of the neat terpolymer, were investigated. It was observed that the presence of small amount of P(VDF-CTFE) does not affect the microstructure of the crystalline phase. However, the uniaxially stretched blended films show a slight increase in the crystallinity and increased or similar induced polarization at high electric fields compared with the neat terpolymer, likely caused by the interface effect. Consequently, for blends with P(VDF-CTFE) less than 5 wt%, the transverse strains S-1 along the stretching direction for uniaxially stretched blended films are nearly the same as those of neat P(VDF-TrFE-CFE), whereas the elastic modulus along the S-1-direction increases with the P(VDF-CTFE) content. As a result, the blended films exhibit a higher elastic energy density and electromechanical coupling factor kappa(31) compared with the neat terpolymer.
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