Cohen and collaborator Huaxiang Fu have developed a computer model that explains the large
piezoelectric response of the lead crystals.
The team still needs to improve the material's
piezoelectric response, says Muhtar Arhart, a materials researcher at the Carnegie / Doe Alliance Center in Washington DC, not involved with the research.
Not exact matches
The team used the strain induced by an electric field applied to a
piezoelectric material (which deforms mechanically in
response to an electric field) to manipulate the chirality of the domain wall.
In 2010, physicists put the largest system yet into a superposition: a 40 - micrometre - long strip of
piezoelectric material, which expands and contracts in
response to voltage changes.
Lookman and his colleagues focused on nickel - titanium - based shape - memory alloys, but the strategy can be used for any materials class (polymers, ceramics or nanomaterials) or target properties (e.g., dielectric
response,
piezoelectric coefficients and band gaps).
By practicing specific yoga poses, we place certain amounts of therapeutic stress (called the «Goldilocks Position») on our connective tissues, gently creating tiny
piezoelectric currents that in turn stimulate optimal cellular
responses.
The microsecond
response times of the
piezoelectric injectors provide the basis for delivering multiple injections per compression stroke, and thus for lean - burn operation.