Shape Memory Gel (SMG) is one of the most interesting unique soft and wet materials. The elastic modulus of the SMG is changed by the kinds of solvent ( S-switch SMG). Here we have an idea that these properties are possibly applied to develop a novel gel-switch chemical semiconductor, named “Gel-con(ductor)”. The Gel-con will be made from the combination of the different kinds of the S-switch gel membranes and is used to rectify the flux of the solvent in chemical circuits, where the solvent molecules behave as electron and hole.

Date Published: 1 April 2015
PDF: 6 pages
Proc. SPIE 9430, Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) 2015, 94302A (1 April 2015); doi: 10.1117/12.2084143

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9430:
Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) 2015
Yoseph Bar-Cohen, Editor(s)