In pursuit of high-force / high-stroke conducting polymer actuators

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5759, Issue , 2005, Pages 314-321

  Spinks, Geoffrey ^a   Xi, Binbin ^a   Campbell, Toni ^a   Whitten, Philip ^a   Mottaghitalab, Vahid ^a   Samani, Mehrdad Bahrami ^a   Wallace, Gordon G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conducting polymers; Fibre; Helix tube; Modulus; Polyaniline; Polypyrrole; Polythiophene

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; BENDING (DEFORMATION); DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELASTIC MODULI; FIBERS; STRAIN;

CONDUCTING POLYMERS; HELIX TUBE; MODULUS; POLYANILINE; POLYTHIOPHENE;

POLYPYRROLES;

EID: 25144436409     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.598407     Document Type: Conference Paper

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