title: Local probing of magnetoelectric properties of PVDF/Fe3O4electrospun nanofibers by piezoresponse force microscopy.
abstract: The coupling of magnetic and electric properties in polymer-based magnetoelectric composites offers new opportunities to develop contactless electrodes, effectively without electrical connections, for less-invasive integration into devices such as energy harvesters, sensors, wearable and implantable electrodes. Understanding the macroscale-to-nanoscale conversion of the properties is important, as nanostructured and nanoscale magnetoelectric structures are increasingly fabricated. However, whilst the magnetoelectric effect at the macroscale is well established both theoretically and experimentally, it remains unclear how this effect translates to the nanoscale, or vice versa. Here, PVDF/Fe3O4polymer-based composite nanofibers are fabricated using electrospinning to investigate their piezoelectric and magnetoelectric properties at the single nanofiber level.
authors.affiliation: ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science, Intelligent Polymer Research Institute/AIIM Faculty, Innovation Campus, Squires Way, University of Wollongong NSW 2522, Australia.
authors.forename: Tian
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Zhilian
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Yue
authors.forename: Gordon G
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: Wallace
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Du
authors.forename: Pedro
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Martins
authors.forename: Senentxu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lanceros-Mendez
authors.forename: Michael J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Higgins