Prof. Xiaoying Zhuang has been recently appointed as a Distinguished Lecturer (DL) for 2023 by the IEEE Nanotechnology Council (NTC).
Prof. Zhuang will work together with IEEE Nanotechnology Council on promoting NTC educational activities. Her talk will be on “Machine Learning Based Multiscale Exploration and Characterization of 2D materials”. This topic is mainly about the flexoelectricity, which is the generation of electric polarization under mechanical strain gradient or mechanical deformation due to the electric field gradient (converse flexo). It is a more general phenomenon than the linear change in polarization due to stress, the piezoelectric effect.
Flexoelectricity exists in a wider range of centrosymmetric materials especially nontoxic materials useful for biomedical application. It grows dominantly in energy density at submicro- or nanoscale enabling self-powered nano devices such as body implants and small-scale wireless sensors. Among the emerging applications of flexoelectricity, energy harvesters are the basic front devices of wide technological impact.
