@inproceedings{7b09886fdd3045c39874857152186bff,
title = "Electrostatic actuation in ionic polymer-metal composites",
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).",
keywords = "contactless actuation, enhanced actuation range, pull-in instability, reduced-order modeling, soft actuators",
author = "Alain Boldini and Kevin Jose and Youngsu Cha and Maurizio Porfiri",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.1117/12.2514277",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Jaehwan Kim",
booktitle = "Nano-, Bio-, Info-Tech Sensors and 3D Systems III",
note = "Nano-, Bio-, Info-Tech Sensors and 3D Systems III 2019 ; Conference date: 04-03-2019 Through 06-03-2019",
}