We have measured the electrical resistivity, , its specific temperature dependence, , and the thermopower, S, of two series of ternary liquid alloys: and . We also provide new analysis for the binary liquid alloy AlCa. We do not see the unusually large values for S that were found earlier for amorphous solid ternary alloys of the approximate composition . We do find that, while chemical short-range order (CSRO) appears to occur in the liquid binary alloy , CSRO is apparently destroyed by substitution of one Ga atom for one Al per complex: . CSRO may exist in the liquid alloy . And we find that the activated conductivities of these ternary liquid alloys (and also of liquid AlCa) are consistent with the Meyer - Neldel rule (MNR), extending the range of applicability of the MNR to systems with activation energies about an order of magnitude smaller than previously observed. These results appear to rule out two physical models as universal bases for the MNR, but are consistent with one based on a hopping conductivity whose characteristic energy is that of a polaron shift.

The 0-3 PZT/PVDF piezoelectric composites were prepared by the solution-mixing method with hydrothermal synthesized PZT powders and ethanol as the appropriate solution. The results of properties measurement show that the piezoelectric and dielectric constants are improved to 65pc/N and 201, respectively, when PZT volume content in PZT/PVDF composites was 60%.

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