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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY
Volume 21, Issue 47, Pages 19074-19079Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c1jm13282b
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- Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita e della Ricerca'' of Regione Campania'' (Centro di Competenza per le Attivita Produttive)
- INSTM (PRISMA) [01/2007]
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Apolar syndiotactic polystyrene (s-PS) can easily form a stable clathrate co-crystalline phase with highly polar 4-nitroaniline molecules. The ferroelectric response of thin films containing the s-PS/4-nitroaniline clathrate phase has been investigated by scanning piezoresponse force microscopy (SPFM) and compared with the response of a poly(vinylidene-fluoride-trifluoroethylene) P(VDF-TrFE) copolymer film. Measurements show that ferroelectric polymer materials can be obtained by crystalline phases whose polarity is given by low-molecular-mass guest molecules rather than by polymer chain polarity. Moreover, as for P(VDF-TrFE), nanoimprinting processes can be applied to these materials by using the SPFM technique but, in the absence of external fields, the SPFM images are lost through an exponential intensity decay.
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