TY - GEN
T1 - Electrostatic actuation in ionic polymer-metal composites
AU - Boldini, Alain
AU - Jose, Kevin
AU - Cha, Youngsu
AU - Porfiri, Maurizio
N1 - 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.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - 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).
AB - 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).
KW - contactless actuation
KW - enhanced actuation range
KW - pull-in instability
KW - reduced-order modeling
KW - soft actuators
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U2 - 10.1117/12.2514277
DO - 10.1117/12.2514277
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85068327701
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - Nano-, Bio-, Info-Tech Sensors and 3D Systems III
A2 - Kim, Jaehwan
PB - SPIE
T2 - Nano-, Bio-, Info-Tech Sensors and 3D Systems III 2019
Y2 - 4 March 2019 through 6 March 2019
ER -