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Cover Image, Volume 132, Issue 13
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of applied polymer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.575
H-Index - 166
eISSN - 1097-4628
pISSN - 0021-8995
DOI - 10.1002/app.41847
Subject(s) - cover (algebra) , materials science , ferroelectricity , polymer , crystallinity , piezoelectricity , polymer science , nanotechnology , composite material , mechanical engineering , optoelectronics , engineering , dielectric
Polymeric nanostructures showing ferroelectric and piezoelectric behavior have raised tremendous interest for the fabrication of miniaturized and novel organic electronic devices. Valentina Cauda, Giancarlo Canavese, and Stefano Stassi review nanostructured piezoelectric polymers in the form of nanowires. The ferroelectric and piezoelectric properties of nanostructured poly(vinylidene fluoride) and its copolymer, poly(vinylidene difluoride–trifluoroethylene) are strongly enhanced by dimensional confinement. The cover shows the semicrystalline polymer is confined into columnar pore of a supporting matrix. The orientation of the polymeric chain is magnified. (DOI: 10.1002/app.41667 )