Issue 49, 2021

The intrinsic piezoelectric properties of materials – a review with a focus on biological materials

Abstract

Piezoelectricity, a linear electromechanical coupling, is of great interest due to its extensive applications including energy harvesters, biomedical, sensors, and automobiles. A growing amount of research has been done to investigate the energy harvesting potential of this phenomenon. Traditional piezoelectric inorganics show high piezoelectric outputs but are often brittle, inflexible and may contain toxic compounds such as lead. On the other hand, biological piezoelectric materials are biodegradable, biocompatible, abundant, low in toxicity and are easy to fabricate. Thus, they are useful for many applications such as tissue engineering, biomedical and energy harvesting. This paper attempts to explain the basis of piezoelectricity in biological and non-biological materials and research involved in those materials as well as applications and limitations of each type of piezoelectric material.

Graphical abstract: The intrinsic piezoelectric properties of materials – a review with a focus on biological materials

Article information

Article type
Review Article
Submitted
07 máj 2021
Accepted
07 sep 2021
First published
15 sep 2021
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

RSC Adv., 2021,11, 30657-30673

The intrinsic piezoelectric properties of materials – a review with a focus on biological materials

R. Lay, G. S. Deijs and J. Malmström, RSC Adv., 2021, 11, 30657 DOI: 10.1039/D1RA03557F

This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. You can use material from this article in other publications, without requesting further permission from the RSC, provided that the correct acknowledgement is given and it is not used for commercial purposes.

To request permission to reproduce material from this article in a commercial publication, please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

If you are an author contributing to an RSC publication, you do not need to request permission provided correct acknowledgement is given.

If you are the author of this article, you do not need to request permission to reproduce figures and diagrams provided correct acknowledgement is given. If you want to reproduce the whole article in a third-party commercial publication (excluding your thesis/dissertation for which permission is not required) please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

Read more about how to correctly acknowledge RSC content.

Social activity

Spotlight

Advertisements