Piezoelectric Composites: Fabrication, Characterization, and Its Application as Sensor

Smart materials are those that under some stimulus are able to change, significantly, one or more of its properties (e.g., mechanical, optical, or electrical) [1]. Often called “sensitive materials” because they possess susceptibility to external stimuli, smart materials show a wide area of interest opening up new possibilities in various sectors such as engineering, medicine, biology, and so on. Among smart materials, piezoelectric materials have an important role, since they can function as actuator and sensor materials, mainly in harvesting field driven by size reduction and proliferation of so-called gadgets, and other portable electronics that require less and less power, opening doors to use batteries to continually store energy from other interconverted sources like human movement [2]. Several good papers have been published in the last decade focusing the sensing and the energy harvesting characteristics of them [3–6].

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