PMID- 31226755 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20201001 IS - 2073-4360 (Electronic) IS - 2073-4360 (Linking) VI - 11 IP - 6 DP - 2019 Jun 20 TI - Piezoelectric Response in Hybrid Micropillar Arrays of Poly(Vinylidene Fluoride) and Reduced Graphene Oxide. LID - 10.3390/polym11061065 [doi] LID - 1065 AB - This study was dedicated to the investigation of poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) micropillar arrays obtained by soft lithography followed by phase inversion at a low temperature. Reduced graphene oxide (rGO) was incorporated into the PVDF as a nucleating filler. The piezoelectric properties of the PVDF-rGO composite micropillars were explored via piezo-response force microscopy (PFM). Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) showed that alpha, beta, and gamma phases co-existed in all studied samples, with a predominance of the gamma phase. The piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) data provided the local piezoelectric response of the PVDF micropillars, which exhibited a temperature-induced downward dipole orientation in the pristine PVDF micropillars. The addition of rGO into the PVDF matrix resulted in a change in the preferred polarization direction, and the piezo-response phase angle changed from -120 degrees to 20 degrees -40 degrees . The pristine PVDF and PVDF loaded with 0.1 wt % of rGO after low-temperature quenching were found to possess a piezoelectric response of 86 and 87 pm/V respectively, which are significantly higher than the |d(33)(eff)| in the case of imprinted PVDF 64 pm/V. Thus, the addition of rGO significantly affected the domain orientation (polarization) while quenching increased the piezoelectric response. FAU - Pariy, Igor O AU - Pariy IO AD - Physical Materials Science and Composite Materials Centre, National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, 634050 Tomsk, Russia. igor-parij1995@mail.ru. FAU - Ivanova, Anna A AU - Ivanova AA AD - Physical Materials Science and Composite Materials Centre, National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, 634050 Tomsk, Russia. metallurg_annet@mail.ru. FAU - Shvartsman, Vladimir V AU - Shvartsman VV AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-7155-2473 AD - Institute for Materials Science and Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen (CENIDE), University of Duisburg-Essen, 45141 Essen, Germany. vladimir.shvartsman@uni-due.de. FAU - Lupascu, Doru C AU - Lupascu DC AD - Institute for Materials Science and Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen (CENIDE), University of Duisburg-Essen, 45141 Essen, Germany. doru.lupascu@uni-due.de. FAU - Sukhorukov, Gleb B AU - Sukhorukov GB AD - School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK. g.sukhorukov@qmul.ac.uk. FAU - Ludwig, Tim AU - Ludwig T AD - University of Cologne, 50923 Cologne, Germany. tim.ludwig@uni-koeln.de. FAU - Bartasyte, Ausrine AU - Bartasyte A AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-8862-2669 AD - FEMTO-ST Institute, 25000 Besancon, France. ausrine.bartasyte@femto-st.fr. FAU - Mathur, Sanjay AU - Mathur S AD - University of Cologne, 50923 Cologne, Germany. sanjay.mathur@uni-koeln.de. FAU - Surmeneva, Maria A AU - Surmeneva MA AD - Physical Materials Science and Composite Materials Centre, National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, 634050 Tomsk, Russia. surmenevamaria@mail.ru. FAU - Surmenev, Roman A AU - Surmenev RA AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-8061-3047 AD - Physical Materials Science and Composite Materials Centre, National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, 634050 Tomsk, Russia. rsurmenev@mail.ru. AD - University of Cologne, 50923 Cologne, Germany. rsurmenev@mail.ru. LA - eng GR - 73/2019/Tomsk Polytechnic University/ PT - Journal Article DEP - 20190620 PL - Switzerland TA - Polymers (Basel) JT - Polymers JID - 101545357 PMC - PMC6632062 OTO - NOTNLM OT - hybrid film OT - piezoelectric response OT - poly(vinylidene fluoride) OT - reduced graphene oxide COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interests EDAT- 2019/06/23 06:00 MHDA- 2019/06/23 06:01 PMCR- 2019/06/20 CRDT- 2019/06/23 06:00 PHST- 2019/05/08 00:00 [received] PHST- 2019/06/12 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2019/06/17 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2019/06/23 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2019/06/23 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/06/23 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2019/06/20 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - polym11061065 [pii] AID - polymers-11-01065 [pii] AID - 10.3390/polym11061065 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Polymers (Basel). 2019 Jun 20;11(6):1065. doi: 10.3390/polym11061065.