All-organic dielectric-percolative three-component composite materials with high electromechanical response

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 4391-4393

  Huang, Cheng ^a   Zhang, Q M ^a   DeBotton, Gal ^b   Bhattacharya, Kaushik ^b  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROACTIVE POLYMERS (EAP); ELECTROMECHANICAL RESPONSE; ENERGY DENSITY; PERCOLATIVE COMPOSITES;

ANISOTROPY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONDUCTIVE PLASTICS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELASTIC MODULI; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OLIGOMERS; PERCOLATION (SOLID STATE); PERMITTIVITY; PLASTIC FILMS; PLASTICS FILLERS; POLYURETHANES; STRAIN; VOLUME FRACTION;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS;

EID: 3042820921     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1757632     Document Type: Article

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