Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Sensors

By Y. Bar-Cohen, Qiming Zhang. 2008

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A biomimetic jellyfish robot based on ionic polymer metal composite actuators (2009, background): “Enormous advances in electro-active polymers (EAP, [1]) have been made for various applications to biomedical devices, micro-manipulators, micro-/nanotransducers, energy harvesters and biomimetic robots.”
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.”
Origami-inspired active structures: a synthesis and review (2014, background): “[168, 169] and other electro-active polymers [170] have made”
A review of stimuli-responsive polymers for smart textile applications (2012, background): “SRPs can be used in smart textiles and apparel [13], intelligent medical instruments and auxiliaries [14, 15], electrochemical devices [16], artificial muscles and robotics [17], biomimetic devices [18], heat shrinkable materials for electronics packaging [19], microelectromechanical systems [20], s”