Performance and work capacity of a polypyrrole conducting polymer linear actuator

Synthetic Metals

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 93-100

  Della Santa, A ^a   De Rossi, D ^a   Mazzoldi, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Actuators; Polypyrrole and derivatives

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; CONDUCTIVE FILMS; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CONDUCTING POLYMER FILM ACTUATOR; POLYPYRROLES;

ION EXCHANGE RESINS;

EID: 0031246530     PISSN: 03796779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0379-6779(97)81256-8     Document Type: Article

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