..., it is important to comprehensively investigate the effects of surface elasticity, including surface residual stress, surface membrane stiffness, and surface bending stiffness, on the electromechanical responses of a PSC nanoplate. Additionally, it is crucial to examine the influence of flexoelectricity...

... coupling model for mechanical deformations of the microbeams immobilized single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) is established due to flexoelectricity. The governing equations and corresponding boundary conditions of ssDNA microbeams are derived by using the variational principle. The bending deformations of ssDNA...

...Jinchen Xie; Christian Linder Flexoelectricity, a remarkable size-dependent effect, means that strain gradients can give rise to electric polarization. This effect is particularly pronounced near defects within flexoelectric solids, where large strain gradients exist. A thorough understanding...

...Lingling Chen; Xinyu Xing; Chuo Zhao; Shengyou Yang Flexoelectricity exists in all inhomogeneously deformed dielectric materials and is of great interest in engineering science, especially in microelectromechanical systems. However, the flexoelectricity is relatively small compared to the commonly...

... flexoelectric fields. In contrast to classical crack–inclusion problems, the interactions between these flexoelectric fields may locally change the electromechanical behaviors of materials and result in some interesting phenomena. To better understand the crack–inclusion interactions in flexoelectric solids...

...Y. L. Qu; Z. W. Guo; G. Y. Zhang; X.-L. Gao; F. Jin A new model for circular cylindrical Kirchhoff–Love shells of flexoelectric–elastic materials with the centrosymmetric cubic symmetry is developed by considering both microstructure and flexoelectric effects. The couple stress theory is used...

...Xinpeng Tian; Mengkang Xu; Haiyang Zhou; Qian Deng; Qun Li; Jan Sladek; Vladimir Sladek Due to the stress concentration near crack tips, strong flexoelectric effect would be observed there, which might lead to new applications of flexoelectricity in material science and devices. However, different...

...Sihao Lv; Wenjun Yang; Qian Deng; Shengping Shen In this study, responses of Lamb waves to a bias electric field in a nanoplate with the consideration of piezoelectricity, flexoelectricity, and strain gradient elasticity are investigated. First, governing equations and boundary conditions...

...Yang Liu; Lingling Chen; Binglei Wang; Shengyou Yang; Pradeep Sharma Flexoelectricity is a universal phenomenon present in all dielectrics that couples electrical polarization to strain gradients and vice-versa. Thus, structures and configurations that permit large strain gradients facilitate...

...J. Yvonnet; X. Chen; P. Sharma Recent work has highlighted how the phenomenon of flexoelectricity can masquerade as piezoelectricity. This notion can not only be exploited to create artificial piezoelectric-like materials without using piezoelectric materials but may also explain measurement...

... speed of the surrounding solid, and we formulate the general dynamic flexoelectric problem and we investigate its plane strain/plane polarization specialization. The coupling of the mechanical problem is analogous to a problem of Toupin–Mindlin gradient elasticity, where two micromechanical...