Multi walled carbon-nanotubes-sheet actuators - Theoretical and experimental investigations

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5759, Issue , 2005, Pages 203-213

  Haque, Mohammad H ^a   Kolaric, Ivica ^a   Vohrer, Uwe ^b   Wallmersperger, Thomas ^a   D'Ottavio, Michele ^a   Kröplin, Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR INTERFACIAL ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY IGB   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bucky Paper; Electric Stimulation; Experimental Investigations; Macroscopic Model; Multi Walled Carbon Nanotubes (MWNT); Numerical Simulations

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROLYTES; PAPER;

BUCKY PAPER; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; MACROSCOPIC MODELS; MULTI WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES;

ACTUATORS;

ACTUATORS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROLYTES; PAPER; SIMULATION;

EID: 25144495189     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.599727     Document Type: Conference Paper

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