Non-toxic Actuator Materials
A special issue of Actuators (ISSN 2076-0825). This special issue belongs to the section "Actuator Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 1058
Special Issue Editor
Interests: piezoelectric actuator; ultrasonic motor; piezo-transformer; high power piezoelectrics; loss mechanism; Pb-free piezoelectrics; piezoelectric composite; multilayer actuator; relaxor piezoelectric single crystal; piezoelectric energy harvesting; piezoelectric driver
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As we have stated in the introduction of the Section “Actuator Materials”, there are five key trends in the recent development of actuator materials: “Performance to Reliability”, “Hard to Soft”, “Macro to Nano”, “Homo to Hetero” and “Single to Multi-Functional”.
This Special Issue will collect papers on Non-Toxic Actuator Materials. Worldwide toxicity regulation is accelerating the development of Pb-free piezoelectrics as a replacement for conventional PZTs. Piezoelectric polymers and polymer–piezoelectric ceramic composites have been revived and commercialized. “Homo to hetero” structure change is also a recent research trend: stress gradient, in terms of space, in a Pb-free dielectric material exhibits piezoelectric-equivalent sensing capability (i.e., “flexoelectricity”), while electric-field gradient, in terms of space, in a semi-conductive Pb-free piezoelectric material can exhibit bimorph-equivalent flextensional deformation (“monomorph”).
This Special Issue aims to collect advanced research articles and comprehensive reviews in the field of non-toxic actuator materials. Topics of interest include:
- Advanced Pb-free actuator (piezoelectric/electrostrictive) ceramic materials;
- Polymer actuator materials (including elastomer actuator materials);
- Non-toxic composite actuator materials;
- Non-toxic flexoelectric actuator/sensor materials;
- Other unique non-toxic actuator materials.
Prof. Dr. Kenji Uchino
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Piezoelectrics
- Electrostrictor
- Magnetostrictor
- Shape memory material
- Elastomer
- Composite
