Ionic polymer metal composites as energy harvesters

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6524, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Dogruer, Deniz ^a   Tiwari, Rashi ^a   Kim, Kwang ^a  

^a Department of Computer Science and Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODES; ENERGY CONSERVATION; RESISTORS; TRANSDUCERS;

ELECTROACTIVE POLYMERS (EAP); ENERGY HARVESTERS; ION MIGRATION; IONIC POLYMER METAL COMPOSITES (IPMC);

POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES;

EID: 35148822687     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.715330     Document Type: Conference Paper

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