{"id":26192,"date":"2024-08-30T11:33:59","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T06:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=26192"},"modified":"2025-04-08T00:20:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T18:50:29","slug":"piezoelectric-polymer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/piezoelectric-polymer\/","title":{"rendered":"Piezoelectric Polymer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Piezoelectric Polymer:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>These are polymers that can <strong>generate electric charges<\/strong> on the surface under pressure\/strain thus convert <strong>mechanical energy<\/strong> into <strong>electrical energy<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Characteristics<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>These polymers have much <strong>higher piezoelectric stress constants<\/strong> indicating that they are much better sensors than ceramics.<\/li>\n<li>They have <strong>low dielectric constant<\/strong>, <strong>low elastic stiffness<\/strong>, and low density, which result in a high voltage sensitivity and low acoustic and mechanical impedance (crucial for medical and underwater applications).<\/li>\n<li>Piezoelectric polymeric sensors and actuators offer the advantage of processing flexibility because they are <strong>lightweight, tough, readily manufactured<\/strong> into large areas, and can be cut and formed into complex shapes.<\/li>\n<li>Polymers also typically possess a high dielectric breakdown and high operating field strength, which means that they can withstand much <strong>higher driving fields than ceramics.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Electricity?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a physical phenomenon that is caused by the presence and movement of electric charges. It manifests itself in a variety of ways, such as static electricity, electric currents, and electromagnetic fields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Piezoelectric Polymer are polymers that can generate electric charges on the surface under pressure\/strain thus converting mechanical energy into electrical energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}