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Electroactive polymers: current capabilities and challenges

Author(s): Yoseph Bar-Cohen

Factors influencing performance of electrochemical actuators based on inherently conducting polymers (ICPs)

Author(s): Gordon G. Wallace; Jie Ding; Lu Liu; Geoffrey M. Spinks; Dezhi Zhou; Stewart Forsyth; Maria Forsyth; Douglas R. MacFarlane

Biomedical applications of electroactive polymers and shape-memory alloys

Author(s): Seung-Ki Lee; Sang-Jo Lee; Ho-Jeong An; Seung-Eun Cha; Jun Keun Chang; Byungkyu Kim; James Jungho Pak

Progress of experimental characterization and micromechanistic modeling of actuation of ionic polymer-metal composites

Author(s): Siavouche Nemat-Nasser

Nanometer-scale ionic reservoir based on ion-responsive hydrogels

Author(s): Sergey V. Kazakov; Marian Kaholek; Kalle Levon

Fabrication, morphology, and actuation from novel single-wall carbon nanotube/Nafion composites

Author(s): Debjit Chattopadhyay; Izabela E. Galeska; Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos; Edgar Munoz; Ray H. Baughman

Design of Nafion actuator with enhanced displacement

Author(s): Mikio Uchida; Chunye Xu; Marie Le Guilly; Minoru Taya

Electrically induced permanent strain in ionic polymer-metal composite actuators

Author(s): Kenneth M. Newbury; Donald J. Leo

Nafion-based smart membrane as an actuator array

Author(s): Marie Le Guilly; Mikio Uchida; Minoru Taya

Electrically controllable deformation memory effects in ionic polymers

Author(s): Mohsen Shahinpoor; Kwang J. Kim

Actuators based on conducting poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)/PEO semi-IPN

Author(s): Frederic Vidal; Jean-Francois Popp; Claude Chevrot; Dominique Teyssie

Performance evaluation of bending actuators made from electrostrictive graft elastomers

Author(s): Ji Su; Robert C. Costen; Joycelyn S. Harrison; Kenneth M. Newbury; Donald J. Leo

Electrostrictive response of an ideal polar rubber: comparison with experiment

Author(s): Geoff R. Davies; Teerapon Yamwong; Alison M. Voice

Effects of electrical properties of papers and electrodes for electroactive paper actuators

Author(s): Jaehwan Kim; Yung B. Seo; Sang H. Choi; Ji Su; Joycelyn S. Harrison

Dielectric elastomer artificial muscle actuators: toward biomimetic motion

Author(s): Ron Pelrine; Roy D. Kornbluh; Qibing Pei; Scott Stanford; Seajin Oh; Joseph Eckerle; Robert J. Full; Marcus A. Rosenthal; Kenneth Meijer

Biomimetic actuator based on dielectric polymer

Author(s): Hyoukryeol Choi; Sungmoo Ryew; Kwangmok Jung; Jaewook Jeon; Hunmo Kim; Jaedo Nam; Atsuo Takanishi; Ryutaro Maeda; K. Kaneko; Kazuo Tanie

Mechanical properties of dielectric elastomer actuators with smart metallic compliant electrodes

Author(s): Mohammed Benslimane; Peter Gravesen; Peter Sommer-Larsen

Performance of dielectric elastomer actuators and materials

Author(s): Peter Sommer-Larsen; Guggi Kofod; M. H. Shridhar; Mohammed Benslimane; Peter Gravesen

Electromechanical properties and molecular conformation in P(VDF-TrFE)-based terpolymer

Author(s): Zhong-Yang Cheng; Hengfeng Li; Feng Xia; Haisheng Xu; Dana Olson; Cheng Huang; Qi Ming Zhang; G. J. Kavarnos

Conducting polymer actuators as engineering materials

Author(s): John D. Madden; Peter G. Madden; Ian W. Hunter

State of water and transport properties of solid polymer electrolyte membranes in relation to polymer actuators

Author(s): Kinji Asaka; Naoko Fujiwara; Keisuke Oguro; Kazuo Onishi; Shingo Sewa

Large deformation model of ion-exchange actuators using electrochemical potentials

Author(s): Eniko T. Enikov; Geon S. Seo

Ionic polymer-metal composites: manufacturing techniques

Author(s): Kwang J. Kim; Mohsen Shahinpoor

Measurements and macro models of ionomeric polymer-metal composites (IPMC)

Author(s): Xiaoqi Bao; Yoseph Bar-Cohen; Shyh-Shiuh Lih

Extensional transduction properties of ionic polymer materials

Author(s): Orion Parrott; Alyssa Nicolaisen; Donald J. Leo

Carbon nanotube sensors

Author(s): Liming Dai

In-situ measurement of conducting polymers on evaporated and electrochemically deposited Au surfaces

Author(s): Clayton C. Bohn; Myoungho Pyo; Said Sadki; Elisabeth Smela; John R. Reynolds; Anthony B. Brennan

Mechanical characterization of artificial muscles with computer vision

Author(s): R. Verdu; Juan Morales-Sanchez; Antonio J. Fernandez-Romero; M. T. Cortes; Toribio F. Otero; Luis Weruaga-Prieto

Use of piezoelectric resonators for the characterization of mechanical properties of polymers

Author(s): Stewart Sherrit; Virginia Olazabal; Jose M. Sansinena; Xiaoqi Bao; Zensheu Chang; Yoseph Bar-Cohen

New method for characterizing the dynamic properties of electroviscoelastic materials

Author(s): Stanley C. Mak; John B. Kosmatka

Characterization of the electromechanical properties of ionomeric polymer-metal composite (IPMC)

Author(s): Yoseph Bar-Cohen; Xiaoqi Bao; Stewart Sherrit; Shyh-Shiuh Lih

Ionic polymer-metal composites: fundamentals and phenomenological modeling

Author(s): Mohsen Shahinpoor; Kwang J. Kim

Numerical simulation of a coupled chemo-electric-formulation for ionic polymer gels in electric fields

Author(s): Thomas Wallmersperger; Bernd Kroeplin; Rainer W. Guelch

Biologically inspired control for artificial muscles

Author(s): Robert C. Richardson; Kevin Watterson; Mike D. Brown; Martin C. Levesley; Jamie A. Hawkes; Peter G. Walker

Control system design for a dielectric elastomer actuator: the sensory subsystem

Author(s): Landy A. Toth; Andrew A. Goldenberg

Simulation and control of iono-elastic beam dynamic deflection model

Author(s): Robert J. Alvarez; Mohsen Shahinpoor

Electroviscoelastic materials as active dampers

Author(s): Janet M. Biggerstaff; John B. Kosmatka

Electroactive polyacrylonitrile nanofibers as artificial nanomuscles

Author(s): Mohsen Shahinpoor; Ian D. Norris; Benjamin R. Mattes; Kwang J. Kim; Laurel O. Sillerud

Control system for conducting polymer actuators

Author(s): Baohua Qi; Wen Lu; Benjamin R. Mattes

Characterization of electroactive behavior and of progress in developments and applications of ionic polymer gels

Author(s): Rainer W. Guelch; Andrea Weible; Thomas Wallmersperger

Characterizing electroactive polymers for use in robotic surgical instruments

Author(s): Alan J. Snyder; Adam L. Cohen; Zhong-Yang Cheng; Qi Ming Zhang; James P. Runt

Development of electroactive silicate nanocomposites prepared for use as ionic polymer-metal composites (IPMCs) artificial muscles and sensors

Author(s): Jaedo Nam; Jun-Ho Lee; Hyuk Ryul Choi; Hunmo Kim; Jaewook Jeon; Jason Paquette; Kwang J. Kim; Yong Suk Tak; Huifang Xu

Macroscopic devices and complex movements developed with artificial muscles

Author(s): Toribio F. Otero; M. Teresa Cortes; Iker Boyano

Importance of nonverbal expression to the emergence of emotive artificial intelligence systems

Author(s): Giovanni Pioggia; David Hanson; Serena Dinelli; Fabio Di Francesco; R. Francesconi; Danilo De Rossi

Hyper-redundant robot manipulators actuated by optimized binary-dielectric polymers

Author(s): Andreas Wingert; Matthew D. Lichter; Steven Dubowsky; Moustapha Hafez

Thiophene-based conducting polymer molecular actuators

Author(s): Patrick A. Anquetil; Hsiao-hua Yu; John D. Madden; Peter G. Madden; Timothy M. Swager; Ian W. Hunter

Thermally actuated polymer benders

Author(s): D. Laurence Thomsen III; Grayson Bush; Patrick Keller; Robert G. Bryant

Enhanced contrast ratios and rapid-switching color-changeable devices based on poly(3,4-propylenedioxythiophene) derivative and counterelectrode

Author(s): Chunye Xu; Hirohisa Tamagawa; Mikio Uchida; Minoru Taya

Reduced voltage artificial eyelid for protection of optical sensors

Author(s): Scott H. Goodwin-Johansson; Mark R. Davidson; David E. Dausch; Paul H. Holloway; Gary McGuire

Electrically controllable liquid crystal elastomer-graphite composite artifical muscles

Author(s): Heino Finkelmann; Mohsen Shahinpoor

Development of a novel composite based on polyethylene and low-melting-point metal alloy

Author(s): Edward Bormashenko; Semion Sutovski; Roman Pogreb; Avigdor Sheshnev; Alexander Shulzinger; Mark Levin; Zahava Barkay; Abraham Katzir

Wave transmission and attenuation characteristics of EAP

Author(s): Jaehwan Kim; Joon-Hyung Kim; Vasundara V. Varadan; Vijay K. Varadan

Bending of partially sulfonated ionic electroactive polymer gels in DC electric fields: hydrated cation effect and applications

Author(s): Li Yao; Sonja Krause

Electrochemical and mechanical investigations of new fluorinated composites

Author(s): Wen-Liang Liu; Jen-Luan Chen; Zhi-Hsien Huang; Chih-Yang Yeh; Lon-Cheng Cheng; Tsung-Lung Yang

Development of a new actuator using artificial muscle

Author(s): Norihiko Saga; Qui Jianhui; Junichi Uehara; Takashi Iwade

Smart Structures and Materials 2002: Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) (Proceedings Volume)

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