Poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene) Based High Performance Electroactive Polymers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5051, Issue , 2003, Pages 133-142

  Xia, Feng ^a   Li, Hengfeng ^a   Huang, Cheng ^a   Huang, M Y M ^a   Xu, H ^a   Bauer, Francois ^c   Cheng, Z Y ^b   Zhang, Q M ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Actuators; Composites; Dielectric constant; Electroactive polymer; Electrostriction

Indexed keywords

ACTINIDES; CHEMICAL BONDS; CONFORMATIONS; ELASTIC MODULI; ELECTROSTRICTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PERMITTIVITY; STRAIN;

ELECTROACTIVE POLYMERS; ENERGY DENSITY;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

EID: 0242525574     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.484308     Document Type: Conference Paper

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