High performance conducting polymer actuators utilising a tubular geometry and helical wire interconnects

Synthetic Metals

Volumn 138, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 391-398

  Ding, Jie ^a   Liu, Lu ^a   Spinks, Geoffrey M ^a   Zhou, Dezhi ^a   Wallace, Gordon G ^a   Gillespie, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b Quantum Technology Pty Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

Helical wire interconnects; High performance conducting polymer actuators; Tubular geometry

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; DEGRADATION; ELECTRIC WIRE; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES;

CONDUCTING POLYMER ACTUATORS;

CONDUCTIVE PLASTICS;

EID: 0038381497     PISSN: 03796779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0379-6779(02)00453-8     Document Type: Article

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