Boosting Magnetoelectric Effect in Polymer-Based Nanocomposites

Alexander Omelyanchik; Valentina Antipova; Christina Gritsenko; Valeria Kolesnikova; Dmitry Murzin; Yilin Han; Andrei V Turutin; Ilya V Kubasov; Alexander M Kislyuk; Tatiana S Ilina; Dmitry A Kiselev; Marina I Voronova; Mikhail D Malinkovich; Yuriy N Parkhomenko; Maxim Silibin; Elena N Kozlova; Davide Peddis; Kateryna Levada; Liudmila Makarova; Abdulkarim Amirov; Valeria Rodionova

doi:10.3390/nano11051154

Boosting Magnetoelectric Effect in Polymer-Based Nanocomposites

Nanomaterials (Basel). 2021 Apr 28;11(5):1154. doi: 10.3390/nano11051154.

Authors

Alexander Omelyanchik^{1

2}, Valentina Antipova¹, Christina Gritsenko¹, Valeria Kolesnikova¹, Dmitry Murzin¹, Yilin Han³, Andrei V Turutin^{4

5}, Ilya V Kubasov⁴, Alexander M Kislyuk⁴, Tatiana S Ilina⁴, Dmitry A Kiselev⁴, Marina I Voronova⁴, Mikhail D Malinkovich⁴, Yuriy N Parkhomenko⁴, Maxim Silibin^{6

7

8}, Elena N Kozlova³, Davide Peddis^{2

9}, Kateryna Levada¹, Liudmila Makarova^{1

10}, Abdulkarim Amirov^{1

11}, Valeria Rodionova¹

Affiliations

¹ REC Smart Materials and Biomedical Applications, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, 236041 Kaliningrad, Russia.
² Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry (DCIC), University of Genova, 16146 Genova, Italy.
³ Biomedical Centre, Department of Neuroscience, Uppsala University, 751 24 Uppsala, Sweden.
⁴ Laboratory of Physics of Oxide Ferroelectrics and Department of Materials Science of Semiconductors and Dielectrics, National University of Science and Technology MISiS, 119049 Moscow, Russia.
⁵ Department of Physics and I3N, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal.
⁶ Institute of Advanced Materials and Technologies, National Research University of Electronic Technology "MIET", 124498 Moscow, Russia.
⁷ Institute for Bionic Technologies and Engineering, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, 119991 Moscow, Russia.
⁸ Scientific-Manufacturing Complex "Technological Centre" Shokin Square, House 1, Bld. 7, Zelenograd, 124498 Moscow, Russia.
⁹ Institute of Structure of Matter-CNR, Monterotondo Stazione, 00016 Rome, Italy.
¹⁰ Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1-2 Leninskie Gory, 119234 Moscow, Russia.
¹¹ Amirkhanov Institute of Physics of Dagestan Federal Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, 367003 Makhachkala, Russia.

Abstract

Polymer-based magnetoelectric composite materials have attracted a lot of attention due to their high potential in various types of applications as magnetic field sensors, energy harvesting, and biomedical devices. Current researches are focused on the increase in the efficiency of magnetoelectric transformation. In this work, a new strategy of arrangement of clusters of magnetic nanoparticles by an external magnetic field in PVDF and PFVD-TrFE matrixes is proposed to increase the voltage coefficient (α_ME) of the magnetoelectric effect. Another strategy is the use of 3-component composites through the inclusion of piezoelectric BaTiO₃ particles. Developed strategies allow us to increase the α_ME value from ~5 mV/cm·Oe for the composite of randomly distributed CoFe₂O₄ nanoparticles in PVDF matrix to ~18.5 mV/cm·Oe for a composite of magnetic particles in PVDF-TrFE matrix with 5%wt of piezoelectric particles. The applicability of such materials as bioactive surface is demonstrated on neural crest stem cell cultures.

Keywords: PVDF; PVDF-TrFE; barium titanate; cobalt ferrite; magnetoelectric effect; multiferroics; nanoparticles.