Key Laboratory of Inorganic Functional Material and Device, CAS, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
中国科学院无机功能材料与器件重点实验室

Nanoscale piezoelectricity of functional materials: from oxides to bioinspired nanotubes and tissues

Prof. Andrei L. Kholkin

Department of Materials and Ceramics Engineering and Center for Research in Ceramic and Composite Materials (CICECO), University of Aveiro, Portugal

时间：2013年07月09日（星期二）下午14:00

　　地点： 4号楼14楼 第一会议室

联系人：李国荣 研究员

　　　  曾华荣 研究员

欢迎各位老师同学光临!

Brief Introduction

Prof. Andrei Kholkin:

IEEE Fellow; Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control; Research coordinator, DEMaC & CICECO, University of Aveiro, Portugal;

Electromechanical coupling is ubiquitous in inorganic and biological materials and directly underpins sensing/actuating functionalities of various systems. Rapidly developing Piezoresponse Force Microscopy (PFM) and Electromechanical Strain Microscopy (ESM) offer a pathway to explore electromechanical activity at the nanoscale with a few nm resolution that allows to uncover fundamental mechanisms of the local piezoelectric phenomena. In this presentation, I will briefly overview the new features in PFM and ESM and present our recent results on nanoelectromechanical imaging in various materials used in ferroelectric memories, piezoelectric transducers, and microelectromechanical systems. Finally, recent results on bioferroelectricity in peptide nanotubes and aminoacids will be discussed.