Journal of Inorganic Materials ›› 2024, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (9): 965-978.DOI: 10.15541/jim20240050

Special Issue: 【制备方法】3D打印(202409) 【信息功能】介电、铁电、压电材料(202409) 【信息功能】柔性材料(202409)

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Current Status and Prospects of Additive Manufacturing of Flexible Piezoelectric Materials

WEI Xiangxia1(), ZHANG Xiaofei1, XU Kailong2, CHEN Zhangwei3()   

  1. 1. Shandong Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology, Institute for Future (IFF), School of Automation, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266071, China
    2. College of Materials Science and Engineering, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266071, China
    3. Additive Manufacturing Institute, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
  • Received:2024-01-29 Revised:2024-02-29 Published:2024-09-20 Online:2024-03-08
  • Contact: CHEN Zhangwei, professor. E-mail: chen@szu.edu.cn
  • About author:WEI Xiangxia (1989-), female, assistant professor. E-mail: xiangxia@qdu.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province(ZR2020QE040);National Natural Science Foundation of China(51975384);Guangdong Special Support Plan Talent Project(2021TQ05Z151)

Abstract:

As a kind of important functional material, flexible piezoelectric materials can realize the effective conversion between mechanical energy and electrical energy, with the advantages of good toughness, high plasticity and light weight. Therefore, they can be attached to the human body to obtain human or environment information in real time, which is widely used in the fields of motion detection, health monitoring, and human-computer interaction. Due to high requirements of various three-dimensional (3D) structures of the flexible piezoelectric materials, additive manufacturing has been extensively utilized to fabricate different kinds of piezoelectric materials. This technology is expected to break the bottleneck of traditional processing of piezoelectric material by improving the structural design freedom and the performance of flexible piezoelectric materials, and provides enormous potential and opportunities for the application of flexible piezoelectric materials. Based on the introduction of the classification and features of flexible piezoelectric materials, this paper explained the main additive manufacturing technologies, including fused deposition modeling, direct ink writing, selective laser sintering, electric-assisted direct writing, stereolithography, and inkjet printing that commonly used in processing these materials. Then, various structural designs, such as multi-layer structure, porous structure, and interdigital structure for the flexible piezoelectric materials produced by different additive manufacturing approaches were reviewed. Moreover, the applications of additive manufactured flexible piezoelectric materials in energy harvesting, piezoelectric sensing, human-computer interaction, and bioengineering were introduced. Finally, the challenges faced by additive manufacturing on processing flexible piezoelectric materials and the development trends in the future were summarized and prospected.

Key words: flexible piezoelectric material, additive manufacturing, ceramic, structure, functional application, review

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