“Self-Peel-Off” Transfer Produces Ultrathin Polyvinylidene-Fluoride-Based Flexible Nanodevices

“Self‐Peel‐Off” Transfer Produces Ultrathin Polyvinylidene‐Fluoride‐Based Flexible Nanodevices

Here, a new strategy, self-peel-off transfer, for the preparation of ultrathin flexible nanodevices made from polyvinylidene-fluoride (PVDF) is reported. In this process, a functional pattern of nanoparticles is transferred via peeling from a temporary substrate to the final PVDF film. This peeling process takes advantage of the differences in the work of adhesion between the various layers (th...

Flexible Nanodevices: “Self‐Peel‐Off” Transfer Produces Ultrathin Polyvinylidene‐Fluoride‐Based Flexible Nanodevices (Adv. Sci. 4/2017)

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Yanlong Tai and Gilles Lubineau describe the mechanism of the “self-peel-off” transfer (SPOT) technique via the temperatureand humidity-sensitive properties of both polyvinylidene-fluoride (PVDF) and nanomaterials in article number 1600370. SPOT is a promising strategy to fabricate flexible, ultrathin, and light-weighted PVDFbased nanodevices. The authors acknowledge Xavier Pita, scientific Ill...

Polyvinylidene fluoride sensor-based method for unconstrained snoring detection.

We established and tested a snoring detection method using a polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) sensor for accurate, fast, and motion-artifact-robust monitoring of snoring events during sleep. Twenty patients with obstructive sleep apnea participated in this study. The PVDF sensor was located between a mattress cover and mattress, and the patients' snoring signals were unconstrainedly measured with...

Magnetoelectric CoFe2O4/polyvinylidene fluoride electrospun nanofibres.

Magnetoelectric 0-1 composites comprising CoFe2O4 (CFO) nanoparticles in a polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) polymer-fibre matrix have been prepared by electrospinning. The average diameter of the electrospun composite fibres is ∼325 nm, independent of the nanoparticle content, and the amount of the crystalline polar β phase is strongly enhanced when compared to pure PVDF polymer fibres. The piezo...