of large-area thin-film, micro-patterning, low-temperature process, and flexibility. [7,8] Ferroelectric polymers such as polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) have been investigated as alternatives to their inorganic counterparts. It is known that C-F dipoles in PVDF align parallel to the external electric field, and remanent polarization remains after removing the field, which leads to piezoelectricity and pyroelectricity in PVDF. Depending on preparation methods, PVDF exhibited several different crystalline phases, including α, β, γ, δ, and ε. While β-phase PVDF, whose backbone chain configuration is all trans, presents the highest ferroelectricity, non-ferroelectric α-phase is dominantly observed when PVDF is prepared by thermal crystallization method since trans-gauche alternating structure is thermodynamically most stable.There have been a lot of efforts in preparing β-rich PVDF, including stretching, copolymerization with trifluoroethylene (TrFE), or adding organic/inorganic additives. [9][10][11] Stretching αor γ-phase PVDF leads to β-phase PVDF, but the enhancement of β-phase (<85%) is practically limited by relatively low drawing ratio. [12] PVDF-TrFE has several advantages exhibiting high β-phase (≈90%) and eligibility of thin-film process. However, PVDF-TrFE copolymers easily lose ferroelectricity at elevated temperatures because they An additive, 1,4-butadiene sulfone (BDS), which generates H 2 SO 3 by in situ thermal retro-Diels-Alder decompositions, is used for preparing high β-phase polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) films. Because of preferential multiple noncovalent interactions of H 2 SO 3 with all-trans configuration of PVDF, β-phase PVDF is spontaneously induced without mechanical drawing and/or extensive thermal annealing process. PVDF films cast from PVDF/BDS/water solutions exhibit high β-phase content (f β = 95%) when the BDS concentration is only c BDS = 1.0 wt%, which is confirmed by polarized optical microscopy (POM), SEM, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), differential scan calorimetry (DSC), and 2D grazing incidence wide-angle X-ray scattering (GIWAXS). Because of the high β-phase content, PVDF films prepared by using BDS exhibit excellent ferroelectric and piezoelectric properties (E c = 50 MV/m, P r = 5 µC/cm 2 , and d 33 = ≈-25 pm/V). Furthermore, a triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) developed with high β-phase PVDF film exhibits enhanced performance as 2.5 times higher than neat PVDF film in output charge density, allowing reliable operation of conventional electronic devices.