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).

Date Published: 27 March 2019
PDF: 6 pages
Proc. SPIE 10969, Nano-, Bio-, Info-Tech Sensors and 3D Systems III, 1096910 (27 March 2019); doi: 10.1117/12.2514277

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 10969:
Nano-, Bio-, Info-Tech Sensors and 3D Systems III
Jaehwan Kim, Editor(s)