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dc.contributor.authorSabouni Tabari, R
dc.contributor.authorChen, Y
dc.contributor.authorThummavichai, K
dc.contributor.authorZhang, Y
dc.contributor.authorSaadi, Z
dc.contributor.authorNeves, AIS
dc.contributor.authorXia, Y
dc.contributor.authorZhu, Y
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-07T08:57:17Z
dc.date.issued2022-04-26
dc.date.updated2022-11-04T20:20:29Z
dc.description.abstractThe death of hair cells and damage of natural tip links is one of the main causes of hearing-loss disability, and the development of an advanced artificial hearing aid holds the key to assisting those suffering from hearing loss. This study demonstrates the potential of using electrospun polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) fibers to serve as the artificial tip links, for long-term hearing-aid-device development based on their piezoelectric properties. We have shown that the electrospun PVDF-fiber web, consisting of fibers ranging from 30-220 nm in diameter with high β-phase content, possesses the high piezoresponse of 170 mV. Analyses based on combined characterization methods including SEM, TEM, XRD, FTIR, Raman, DSC, XPS, PFM and piezoelectricity have confirmed that an optimized value of 15 wt.% PVDF could act as an effective candidate for a tip-link connector in a vibration-frequency prototype. Based on this easily reproducible electrospinning technique and the multifunctionalities of the resulting PVDF fibers, this fundamental study may shed light on the bio-inspired design of artificial, self-powered, high performance, hair-cell-like sensors in cochlea to tackle the hearing loss issue.en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipEngineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipEngineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)en_GB
dc.format.extent1466-
dc.format.mediumElectronic
dc.identifier.citationVol. 12 (9), article 1466en_GB
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3390/nano12091466
dc.identifier.grantnumberEP/N034627/1en_GB
dc.identifier.grantnumberEP/S019855/1en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/131662
dc.identifierORCID: 0000-0002-4581-525X (Neves, Ana IS)
dc.identifierORCID: 0000-0001-9686-8688 (Xia, Yongde)
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherMDPIen_GB
dc.relation.urlhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35564175en_GB
dc.rights© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).en_GB
dc.subjectelectrospun PVDF fiberen_GB
dc.subjecthearing lossen_GB
dc.subjectpiezoelectric propertiesen_GB
dc.subjecttip links in cochleaen_GB
dc.titlePiezoelectric Property of Electrospun PVDF Nanofibers as Linking Tips of Artificial-Hair-Cell Structures in Cochleaen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2022-11-07T08:57:17Z
exeter.article-numberARTN 1466
exeter.place-of-publicationSwitzerland
dc.descriptionThis is the final version. Available from MDPI via the DOI in this record. en_GB
dc.identifier.eissn2079-4991
dc.identifier.journalNanomaterialsen_GB
dc.relation.ispartofNanomaterials (Basel), 12(9)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_GB
dcterms.dateAccepted2022-04-19
dc.rights.licenseCC BY
rioxxterms.versionVoRen_GB
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2022-04-19
rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Reviewen_GB
refterms.dateFCD2022-11-07T08:50:09Z
refterms.versionFCDVoR
refterms.dateFOA2022-11-07T08:57:25Z
refterms.panelBen_GB
refterms.depositExceptionpublishedGoldOA
refterms.dateFirstOnline2022-04-26


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