Electromechanical materials and devices: actuators and sensors, transducers, and micro-electromechanical systems, energy harvesting. Dielectric materials and devices: electronic packaging, capacitors, electric energy storage, microwave dielectrics. Photonic structures, electro-optic and acousto-optic materials and devices. Pyroelectric materials and devices. Ferroelectric polymer thin and ultrathin films, nano-materials and devices based on functional polymers, for memory devices, MEMS, high energy storage, and sensors