Exploiting conducting polymer fiber radial expansion for bioinspired actuation

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5051, Issue , 2003, Pages 453-457

  Rocchia, W ^a   Mazzoldi, A ^a   Serra, G ^a   De Rossi, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Actuators; Conducting polymers; Strain amplification

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; ANISOTROPY; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; SYNTHETIC FIBERS; TRANSDUCERS;

BIOINSPIRED ACTUATION; RADIAL EXPANSION; STRAIN AMPLIFICATION;

ELASTOMERS;

EID: 0345359865     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.484328     Document Type: Conference Paper

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