Muscle-like actuators? A comparison between three electroactive polymers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4329, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 7-15

  Meijer, K ^a   Rosenthal, M ^a   Full, R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTOMERS; MUSCLE; SILICONES;

ARTIFICIAL MUSCLES; ELECTROACTIVE POLYMERS (EAP);

ACTUATORS;

EID: 0034784123     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.432649     Document Type: Article

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