A wearable, nozzle‑diffuser microfluidic pump based on high‑performance ferroelectric nanocomposites

New target applications for microfluidic devices have been focused on home usability, wearability and cost-effectiveness. Towards these goals, in this work, a controllable, bendable, and all‑organic, nozzle‑diffuser microfluidic pump was designed, fabricated and tested. First, to resolve the crucial issue of high driving voltage, the ferroelectric polymer poly(vinylidene fluoride‑trifluoroethylene) (P(VDF‑TrFE)) was optimized by adding...