Characteristics and Properties of Piezoelectric Smart Materials

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue, titled "Characteristics and Properties of Piezoelectric Smart Materials", is motivated by a growing interest in developing novel and advanced piezoelectric materials for piezoelectricity-based devices by various worldwide research groups and industries.

This would include:

1. Porous piezoelectric materials and their properties;
2. PZT nano-tubes, nano-rods, nanowires and nano-fibers for MEMS devices;
3. Advanced piezoelectric polymers and piezocomposites;
4. Voided charged polymers including comparative studies on piezoelectric polymers and their relevant applications as sensors and actuators;
5. Lead-free piezoelectric materials and their achieved properties in various devices;
6. Piezoelectric biosensors’ principles and their applications;
7. Wearable piezoelectric sensors and actuators;
8. Piezoelectric high-frequency image generation;
9. Ultrasonic transducers;
10. Implantable biomechanical energy piezoelectric harvesters;
11. Any other advanced research on improving piezoelectric properties and characteristics.

Overall, this Special Issue is orientated toward all the above-cited research topics and other related research on piezoelectric materials and their unique characteristics.

Considering your outstanding contribution in this interesting research field, I would like to cordially invite you to submit a paper to this Special Issue.

Prof. Dr. Haim Abramovich
Guest Editor

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