Abstract
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).
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Nano-, Bio-, Info-Tech Sensors and 3D Systems III |
| Editors | Jaehwan Kim |
| Publisher | SPIE |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781510625938 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2019 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | Nano-, Bio-, Info-Tech Sensors and 3D Systems III 2019 - Denver, United States Duration: 2019 Mar 4 → 2019 Mar 6 |
Publication series
| Name | Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering |
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| Volume | 10969 |
| ISSN (Print) | 0277-786X |
| ISSN (Electronic) | 1996-756X |
Conference
| Conference | Nano-, Bio-, Info-Tech Sensors and 3D Systems III 2019 |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Denver |
| Period | 19/3/4 → 19/3/6 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This research was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. OISE-1545857 and by KIST flagship program under Project No. 2E29460.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 SPIE.
Keywords
- contactless actuation
- enhanced actuation range
- pull-in instability
- reduced-order modeling
- soft actuators
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Computer Science Applications
- Applied Mathematics
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering