Recently, a paper entitled Peptide Programming of Supramolecular Vinylidene Fluoride Ferroelectric Phases, the latest research result in the field of electrical materials in electrical engineering, was published online in the internationally renowned academic journal Nature. Dr. Yang Yang, a 2014 graduate of the Electrical Engineering and Automation Programme (Mao Yisheng Class) from the School of Electrical Engineering is the first author.

The finding was also featured in the well-known international journal Science (doi: 10.1126/science.zaibifc). The paper reported a new kind of water-soluble and degradable ferroelectric supramolecular assemblies with higher thermodynamical stability which exhibit a coercive field that is two orders of magnitude lower, compared with a ferroelectric copolymer. This discovery probably suggests more application potential for soft ferroelectrics in bioresorbable electronics, energy catalysis, and ultralow-power devices.