Biomedical applications, ferroelectric polymers

Another strong area of technology devetopoKnt has been in the field of ultrasonics, with specific application to biomedical uses. There is a wide variety of devices that have featured ferroelectric polymers for this area. Included are needle hydrophones and probes,... 

The rest of this chapter is structured as follows. Section 5.2 gives a brief historical overview together with a description of the synthesis, structure and preparation of ferroelectric polymers. Section 5.3 defines the properties required to evaluate these materials, and includes typical values and brief accounts of the measurement methods. Section 5.4 details the applications of ferroelectric polymers, covering sound transducers, biomedical, pyroelectric and mechanical applications. Conclusions are briefly described in section 5,5. 

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