Ultrasonic Transducers Made From Freeze-Cast Porous Piezoceramics.

Porous and composite piezoelectric ceramics are of interest for underwater ultrasonic transducers due to their improved voltage sensitivity and acoustic matching with water, compared with their dense counterparts. Commonly, these materials are fabricated by dice-and-fill of sintered blocks of polycrystalline piezoceramic, which results in a high volume of waste. The freeze-casting technique offers a low waste and scalable alternative to the dice-and-fill method to produce porous piezoceramics with highly orientated, anisometric pores.

Flexible ferroelectric wearable devices for medical applications.

Wearable electronics are becoming increasingly important for medical applications as they have revolutionized the way physiological parameters are monitored. Ferroelectric materials show spontaneous polarization below the Curie temperature, which changes with electric field, temperature, and mechanical deformation. Therefore, they have been widely used in sensor and actuator applications.

Understanding the peculiarities of the piezoelectric effect in macro-porous BaTiO.

This work demonstrates the potential of porous BaTiO for piezoelectric sensor and energy-harvesting applications by manufacture of materials, detailed characterisation and application of new models. Ferroelectric macro-porous BaTiO ceramics for piezoelectric applications are manufactured for a range of relative densities,  = 0.30-0.