Ferroelectrics based Flexible Electronics

Flexible electronics are increasingly shaping and transforming daily life. The industrial demand for these technologies is evolving beyond basic flexibility and wearability, now emphasizing multifunctional integration, enhanced performance, and personalized designs across diverse applications. In response to these advancements, ferroelectric materials—particularly flexible ferroelectric polymers—have garnered significant attention due to their exceptional cross-coupling effects, including piezoelectricity, electrostriction, pyroelectricity, and caloric effects. These properties make them highly suitable for various flexible transducers and actuators. Additionally, their unique dipolar response characteristics enable their extensive applications in information storage, capacitors, and other essential components of flexible wearable electronics.

In recent years, significant progress has been made in the development of flexible stress, strain, and temperature sensors; mechanical and thermal energy harvesting devices; wearable ultrasound imaging systems; electrically driven soft actuators; high-entropy electrocaloric coolers; high-entropy capacitive energy storage systems; and bendable ferroelectric transistor memory. Many of these advancements are largely driven by breakthroughs and improvements in ferroelectric materials, including ferroelectric polymers, perovskite ceramics, molecular ferroelectrics, and more. This collection emphasizes material development, device engineering, and functional integration, showcasing research on flexible electronic devices that are centered around ferroelectric materials.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

● Ferroelectric materials with excellent ferroelectricity, strong cross-coupling effects, or superior capacitor performances. 
● Flexible mechanical energy harvesters, acoustic devices, and force sensors based on piezoelectricity
● Soft robots, artificial muscles, and haptic devices leveraging ferroelectric electromechanical coupling effects
● Flexible temperature sensors and pyroelectric energy harvesters based on pyroelectricity
● Flexible ferroelectric memories, field-effect transistors, and capacitive devices
● Personal thermal management and flexible solid-state cooling technologies utilizing caloric effects