1. Introduction to Organic Piezoelectrics and Ferroelectrics 2. Ferroelectric Charge-Transfer Complexes and Electronic Ferroelectricity 3. Hydrogen-Bonded Organic Molecular Ferroelectrics/Antiferroelectrics 4. Synthesis of PVDF and its Copolymers 5. VDF and its Blends 6. Nylons 7. Dipole Switching Dynamics in Organic Ferroelectrics 8. In-Situ Characterization of Ferroelectric Films by Scanning Probe Microscopy 9. Dielectric Spectroscopy of Ferroelectric Polymers 10. Theory of Solution Processing 11. Solution Processing of Piezoeletric Unconventional Structures 12. Polarization of Ferroelectric Polymers through Electrolytes 13. Piezoelectric Composites 14. High-K Composites for Energy Storage 15. Energy Harvesting (Nano-Generators) 16. Electro-Caloric Effects in Ferroelectric Polymers 17. Biomedical Applications
Kamal Asadi is a Professor of Physics at the University of Bath in the United Kingdom. He obtained his PhD in Physics from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. During his PhD research, he worked on ferroelectric memories and opto-electronic devices based on ferroelectric polymers and invented two new types of ferroelectric memory devices. Following his PhD, he joined Philips Research Labs in Eindhoven in the Netherlands to work on oxide-semiconductors and graphene for lighting and microelectronics, and on ferroelectrics for sensing and actuating applications. Subsequently, he moved to the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz (Germany), where he received the highly prestigious Sofja Kavaleskaja Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2014. His current research focuses on piezoelectric polymers and multi-ferroic composites for application in memories, energy harvesting and sensors.