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The present monograph has been devoted to the performance of modern piezoelectric materials that can be applied as active elements of energy-harvesting devices or systems. In the last decade piezoelectric materials (mainly poled FCs and piezo-active composites based on either FCs or relaxor-ferroelectric SCs) have been the focus of many studies on energy-harvesting characteristics.
Piezoelectrics with electromechanical coupling, shape-memory materials that can “remember” their original shape, electrorheological fluids with adjustable viscosities, and chemical sensors which act as synthetic equivalents to the human nose are examples of smart electroceramics. “Very smart” materials, in addition to sensing and actuating, have the ability to “learn” by altering their property coefficients in response to the environment. Integration of these different technologies into compact, multifunction packages is the ultimate goal of research in the area of smart material.
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Bowen, C.R., Topolov, V.Y., Kim, H.A. (2016). Conclusions. In: Modern Piezoelectric Energy-Harvesting Materials. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 238. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29143-7_5
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