An active energy harvesting scheme with an electroactive polymer

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 13, 2007, Pages

  Ren, Kailiang ^a   Liu, Yiming ^a   Hofmann, H ^a   Zhang, Q M ^a   Blottman, John ^b  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b NAVAL UNDERSEA WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTING POLYMERS; ELECTROSTRICTION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

ACTIVE ENERGY HARVESTING; ELECTRIC ENERGY DENSITY; ELECTROMECHANICAL RESPONSES; ELECTROSTRICTIVE POLYMERS;

ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION;

EID: 34848917544     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2793172     Document Type: Article

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