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SPOTLIGHT
Fabrice Domingues Dos Santos,
Head of Development for the Piezotech® range
A NEW ERA OF
electronics
INTERVIEW WITH...
FABRICE DOMINGUES DOS SANTOS
As the world leader in fluoropolymers, Arkema believes in the development potential of applications that use electroactive polymers.
Fabrice Domingues Dos Santos, Head of Development
for the Piezotech® range, fills us in.
ELECTROACTIVE MATERIALS: FRENCH ORIGINS
1880
Piezoelectricity was discovered on Rochelle salt crystals by the brothers Pierre and Jacques Curie
1915-1918
The forerunner of sonar was developed by French physician Paul Langevin using piezoelectric transducers
1939-1945
Final developments in active sonar, which was used during World War II
1949
The chemist Aharon Katchalsky discovered piezoelectricity in natural polymers (cellulose, collagen)
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