Journal
POLYMERS
Volume 12, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/polym12102430
Keywords
piezoelectric; PVDF; barium titanate; nanocomposites; printed electronics; inkjet printing; nanomaterial ink
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- Dean Start-up grant, Science and Technology, Aarhus University, Denmark
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Polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) and its copolymers are promising electroactive polymers showing outstanding ferroelectric, piezoelectric, and pyroelectric properties in comparison with other organic materials. They have shown promise for applications in flexible sensors, energy-harvesting transducers, electronic skins, and flexible memories due to their biocompatibility, high chemical stability, bending and stretching abilities. PVDF can crystallize at five different phases of alpha, beta, gamma, delta, and epsilon; however, ferro-, piezo-, and pyroelectric properties of this polymer only originate from polar phases of beta and gamma. In this research, we reported fabrication of PVDF inkjet inks with enhanced beta-phase crystallinity by incorporating barium titanate nanoparticles (BaTiO3). BaTiO3 not only acts as a nucleating agent to induce beta-phase crystallinity, but it also improves the electric properties of PVDF through synergistic a ferroelectric polarization effect. PVDF-BaTiO3 nanocomposite inkjet inks with different BaTiO3 concentrations were prepared by wet ball milling coupled with bath ultrasonication. It was observed that the sample with 5 w% of BaTiO3 had the highest beta-phase crystallinity, while in higher ratios overall crystallinity deteriorated progressively, leading to more amorphous structures.
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