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2008
Journal Article
Titel
Physical foaming of fluorinated ethylene-propylene (FEP) copolymers in supercritical carbon dioxide: Single-film fluoropolymer piezoelectrets
Abstract
Cellular polymer foams with significant piezoelectric activity were prepared from fluorinated ethylene-propylene (FEP) copolymers. The required void structure is obtained by saturation of FEP films with supercritical carbon dioxide and a subsequent heat treatment for controlled inflation. After bipolar electric charging of the voids and evaporation of electrodes, the FEP films show piezoelectric d(33) coefficients up to 50 pC/N. The present physical foaming process generates cellular fluoropolymer piezoelectret films with usually only one single void across the film thickness.