Electroactive Polymer (EAP) Actuators as Artificial Muscles: Reality, Potential, and Challenges, Second Edition

By Y. Bar-Cohen. 2004

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Polymers and Plastics

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In Biomedical Engineering

1. Zhigang Suo
2. G. Kofod
3. Xuanhe Zhao
4. Herbert Shea
5. Katia Bertoldi
6. Samuel Rosset
7. Siegfried Bauer
8. Wei Hong

In Polymers and Plastics

1. H. Meng
2. Zhigang Suo
3. Xuanhe Zhao
4. Herbert Shea
5. Robert J. Wood
6. Jinlian Hu
7. Danilo de Rossi
8. Qibing Pei

Citations in the corpus

• Wing morphing control with shape memory alloy actuators (2013, background): “Table 1 lists the most common characteristics of some smart materials that include maximum free strain, maximum stress, deformation energy density, efficiency, and relative speed of response (Bar-Cohen, 2004).”
• Electroactive polymer-based devices for e-textiles in biomedicine (2005, background): “With respect to their actuating capabilities, EAPs can be classified in two major categories: ionic EAPs (activated by an electrically induced diffusion of ions or molecules) and electronic EAPs (activated by an external electric field and by Coulombian forces) [43].”
• Wearable soft sensing suit for human gait measurement (2014, background): “…actuators (Shulte Jr., 1961; Park et al., 2014; Wehner et al., 2013), wearable tendon-drive actuation (Kong and Jeon, 2006; Galiana et al., 2012; Asbeck et al., 2013), and even soft electroactive polymer actuators (Bar-cohen, 2004), all of which complement the work on sensors we present here.”
• A Brief Review of Stimulus-active Polymers Responsive to Thermal, Light, Magnetic, Electric, and Water/Solvent Stimuli (2010, background): “…systems (Gall et al., 2002), self-deployable sun sails in spacecrafts (Sokolowski et al., 1999), miniature manipulator (Smela et al., 1995), actuators and sensors (Bar-Cohen and Zhang, 2008; Leng et al., 2008a), active sound absorbing materials, flexible speakers (Bar-Cohen, 2001), and many more.”
• Electromechanical characterisation of dielectric elastomer planar actuators: comparative evaluation of different electrode materials and different counterloads (2003, neutral): “The isotonic transverse strain, the isometric transverse stress and the driving current, due to a 2 s high voltage impulse, were measured for four electrode materials (thickened electrolyte solution, graphite spray, carbon grease and graphite powder), four transverse prestress values (19.6, 29.4,…”