Piezoelectricity is used everywhere: Watches, cars, alarms, headphones, pickups for instruments, electric lighters and gas burners. One of the most common examples is probably the quartz watch, where ...

Piezoelectricity is a property of certain materials to become electrically polarized under strain and stress. This phenomenon has been studied extensively since it was first discovered in the mid-18 ...

A printed flexible sheet of piezoelectric smart material (Photo by H. Cui of the Zheng Lab) The piezoelectric materials that inhabit everything from our cell phones to musical greeting cards may be ...

Heat and pressure can deteriorate the properties of piezoelectric materials that make state-of-the-art ultrasound and sonar technologies possible -- and fixing that damage has historically required ...

The piezoelectric effect refers to the negative and positive charges that appear on the surface of specific crystals when pressure is applied. This phenomenon was discovered by Pierre and Jacques ...

New printing technique and materials could be used to develop intelligent materials and self-adaptive infrastructures and transducers. The piezoelectric materials that inhabit everything from our cell ...

The piezoelectric materials that inhabit everything from our cellphones to musical greeting cards may be getting an upgrade thanks to work discussed in the journal Nature Materials released online Jan ...