Piezoelectric materials
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Among smart materials, piezoelectric materials have attracted research attention for their use in industrial applications to produce devices such as sensors and actuators. Due to their ability to convert mechanical/vibrational energy into electrical energy (and vice versa) they are expected to be essential in renewable energy applications: such materials, when subjected to mechanical vibrations or applied stress, generate a net electrical charge as consequence of the lattice displacement (and the dipole moment of the unit cell) building an electric potential across the material itself. Other characteristics that made piezoelectric materials appealing in a variety of applications include their low cost, lightweight nature, as well as being easy to be controlled and modelled in different forms (e.g. film films, cylinders, fibres, etc.).
This Collection aims to gather the latest advances in the topic of piezoelectric material, focusing on their fabrication, characterisation, and their use in timely applications.
Editors
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Luana Persano
Nanoscience Institute of CNR, Italy
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Alessandra Sanson
Institute of Science, Technology and Sustainability for Ceramics of CNR, Italy
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Nelson Sepúlveda
Michigan State University, USA
Luana Persano is Director of Research at the Nanoscience Institute of CNR in Italy. 
Her research interests include the development of nanomanufacturing and lithographic approaches to fabricate advanced polymer nanocomposites and functional materials in the form of films, nanoparticles, and fibers, to incorporate into devices. Currently targeted applications are sensing, energy harvesting, biomedicine and photonics. Dr Persano has been an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports since 2022.
Alessandra Sanson is at present acting Director of the Institute of Science, 
Technology and sustainability for Ceramics (ISSMC) of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Italy. As research director her research activities are focused on ceramics for energy applications from production to storage. The topics includes solid oxide cells, solar conversion, solid batteries and piezoelectric. Dr Sanson has been an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports since 2022.
Nelson Sepúlveda is a Professor and Graduate Director in the Electrical and Computer 
Engineering Department at Michigan State University. For more than 15 years, his group has been focused on the development of vanadium dioxide-based devices and systems that exploit the intrinsic multifunctionality of the material, which include electrical, mechanical, thermal, and optical energy domains. His current interests are in the integration of smart materials, such as piezoelectrics, ferroelectrets, and phase-change materials in multifunctional, flexible transducers. Dr Sepúlveda has been an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports since 2023.
