High-flexibility piezoelectric ribbon fiber fabrication through multi-material thermal drawing

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

In this study, an amorphous poly(vinylidene fluoride-hexafluoropropylene) (P(VDF-HFP)) copolymer with a high yield strain (approximately 18 %) is proposed as a cladding material for highly flexible and reliable piezoelectric ribbon fibers. Macro preforms are fabricated for thermal drawing (TD) processes, in which a poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene) (P(VDF-TrFE)) film is sandwiched between two electrically conductive composite sheets (carbon black (CB)/polypropylene (PP)). The piezoelectric device is cladded with the P(VDF-HFP) copolymer. The preform geometries and TD parameters are optimized to overcome the incompatibility of flow characteristics among P(VDF-HFP), P(VDF-TrFE), and CB/PP composite at the drawing temperature, yielding fibers of length more than 80 m through TD. After annealing and poling, the fiber produces approximately 5 V (peak-to-peak) under 2.5 % tensile strain and 0.5 V (peak-to-peak) under bending deformation, with a 5-mm radius of curvature. Furthermore, the piezoelectric fiber shows no severe degradation in the output voltage after 10000 cycles of bending deformation with 1-mm radius of curvature. The piezoelectric ribbon fiber developed herein has potential as a flexible tensile, pressure, or bending sensor fiber for wearable applications.

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