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This monograph is intended to provide an overview on the achievements in the field of flexoelectricity. Flexoelectricity is a fundamental property of condensed matter, with significant potential for further scientific study, and is highly promising to many applied activities.
Organized by the type of condensed matter considered — solid, soft and living — for detailed comparison and analysis, the focus is on the fundamentals of the topic, on experimental methods applied over the years to determine flexoelectric coefficients, as well as on reviewing different and even controversial approaches, all of which could provoke an examination of the subject with fresh eyes.
Contents:
- Flexoelectricity in Solids:
- Introduction
- Theoretical Remarks
- Microscopic Mechanisms of Solids' Flexoelectricity
- Experiments and Applications
- Concluding Remarks
- Flexoelectricity in Soft Living Matter (Bioflexoelectricity and Biohelielectricity):
- Introductory Remarks
- Curvature, Polarization and Bioflexoelectricity
- Experimental Studies of Bioflexoelectricity
- Flexoelectricity and Cell Biology
- Biohelielectricity
- Flexoelectricity of Liquid Crystals:
- Introduction
- Theory and Modelling
- Flexoelectric Effect in DC and AC Electric Fields
- Flexoelectricity in Nematic Liquid Crystals
- Flexoelectricity in Cholesterics
- Flexoelectricity in Smectic Liquid Crystals
- Experimental Techniques
- Applications
- Conclusion
Readership: Caters to undergraduates, graduates and researchers interested in the subject of flexoelectricity with focus mainly on fundamental flexoelectric studies and possible practical implementations.
