Piezoelectric Materials for Medical Applications

This chapter describes the history and development strategy of piezoelectric materials for medical applications. It covers the piezoelectric properties of materials found inside the human body including blood vessels, skin, and bones as well as how the piezoelectricity innate in those materials aids in disease treatment. It also covers piezoelectric materials and their use in medical implants by explaining how piezoelectric materials can be used as sensors and can emulate natural materials. Finally, the possibility of using piezoelectric materials to design medical equipment and how current models can be improved by further research is explored. This review is intended to provide greater understanding of how important piezoelectricity is to the medical industry by describing the challenges and opportunities regarding its future development

Extensible and Community-Driven Thermodynamics, Transport, and Chemical Kinetics Modeling with Cantera: Expanding to Diverse Scientific Domains. NSF CSSI PI Meeting, September, 2023

Modeling and simulation play key enabling roles in accelerating the transition away from carbon-intensive and environmentally disruptive energy and chemical technologies. However, such software tools have not kept pace with the increasing chemical complexity and interdisciplinarity of advanced technology solutions. Software frameworks must rigorously connect thermodynamics, kinetics, and mass transport properties, but must also be flexible enough to incorporate new material models and mechanisms without requiring significant simulation changes.  This presentation gives an overview of Cantera, an open-source software package for problems involving chemical kinetics, thermodynamics, and species transport, with broad applications in chemistry, materials science, and engineering. The software provides a library of generalizable function calls, which automates calculations to support flexible modeling of complex thermo-kinetic and mass transport phenomena. In this presentation, we will give an overview of Cantera’s capabilities and highlight recent developments in both the software and the user and developer communities.</p