Electrostatic actuation in ionic polymer-metal composites

Alain Boldini; Kevin Jose; Youngsu Cha; Maurizio Porfiri

doi:10.1117/12.2514277

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27 March 2019 Electrostatic actuation in ionic polymer-metal composites

Alain Boldini, Kevin Jose, Youngsu Cha, Maurizio Porfiri

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Proceedings Volume 10969, Nano-, Bio-, Info-Tech Sensors and 3D Systems III; 1096910 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2514277
Event: SPIE Smart Structures + Nondestructive Evaluation, 2019, Denver, Colorado, United States

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Materials engineering has greatly contributed to improving the performance of soft active materials, but these improvements have seldom met the compelling needs of science and engineering applications. Here, we demonstrate, for the first time, a new approach to the design of soft active materials, which embraces the complexity of multiphysics phenomena across electrostatics and electrochemistry. Through principled experiments and physically-based models we investigate the integration of electrostatic actuation in ionic polymer-metal composites (IPMCs).

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Alain Boldini, Kevin Jose, Youngsu Cha, and Maurizio Porfiri "Electrostatic actuation in ionic polymer-metal composites", Proc. SPIE 10969, Nano-, Bio-, Info-Tech Sensors and 3D Systems III, 1096910 (27 March 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2514277

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