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Enabling flexoelectric engineering through modeling and computation

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Project "FLEXOCOMP" data sheet

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Coordinator
UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA 

Organization address
address: CALLE JORDI GIRONA 31
city: BARCELONA
postcode: 8034
website: www.upc.edu

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 Coordinator Country Spain [ES]
 Project website http://www.lacan.upc.edu/arias/Site/Home.html
 Total cost 1˙500˙000 €
 EC max contribution 1˙500˙000 € (100%)
 Programme 1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC))
 Code Call ERC-2015-STG
 Funding Scheme ERC-STG
 Starting year 2016
 Duration (year-month-day) from 2016-09-01   to  2021-08-31

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1    UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA ES (BARCELONA) coordinator 1˙500˙000.00

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 Project objective

Piezoelectric materials transduce electrical voltage into mechanical strain and vice-versa, which makes them ubiquitous in sensors, actuators, and energy harvesting systems. Flexoelectricity is a related but different effect, by which electric polarization is coupled to strain gradients, i.e. it requires inhomogeneous deformation. Flexoelectricity is present in a much wider variety of materials, including non-polar dielectrics and polymers, but is only significant at small length-scales. Flexoelectricity has demonstrated its potential in information technologies, by flexoelectric-mediated mechanical writing in ferroelectric thin films at the nanoscale, or in flexoelectric electromechanical transducers. It has been suggested that flexoelectricity could enable piezoelectric composites made out of non-piezoelectric components, including soft materials, which could be used in biocompatible and self-powered small-scale devices. Flexoelectricity is a nascent field with major open questions. Furthermore, experimental devices and material designs are limited by what we can understand and analyze, and unfortunately, we lack general engineering analysis tools for flexoelectricity. As a result, current flexoelectric devices are only minimal variations of configurations conceived within the uniform-strain mindset of piezoelectricity. Our main objective in this proposal is to develop an advanced computational infrastructure to quantify flexoelectricity in solids, focusing on continuum models but also exploring multiscale aspects. We plan to use it to (1) analyze accurately flexoelectricity accounting for general geometries, electrode configurations, and material behavior, (2) identify new physics emerging flexoelectricity, and (3) propose, build and test a new generation of thin-film devices, composites and metamaterials for electromechanical transduction, genuinely designed to exploit small-scale flexoelectricity and make it available at macroscopic scales.

 Publications

year authors and title journal last update
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2019 David Codony, Onofre Marco, Sonia Fernández-Méndez, Irene Arias
An Immersed Boundary Hierarchical B-spline method for flexoelectricity
published pages: , ISSN: 0045-7825, DOI:
Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 2019-06-06
2019 Amir Abdollahi, Neus Domingo, Irene Arias, Gustau Catalan
Converse flexoelectricity yields large piezoresponse force microscopy signals in non-piezoelectric materials
published pages: , ISSN: 2041-1723, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-09266-y
Nature Communications 10/1 2019-06-06

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