A multi-walled carbon nanotube/polymer actuator that surpasses the performance of a single-walled carbon nanotube/polymer actuator

Carbon

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 311-320

  Terasawa, Naohiro ^a   Ono, Norihiro ^a,b   Mukai, Ken ^a   Koga, Tomoyuki ^b   Higashi, Nobuyuki ^b   Asaka, Kinji ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b DOSHISHA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMECHANICAL PROPERTY;

ACTUATORS; CARBON; ELECTROCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; IONIC LIQUIDS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 80053617340     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2011.08.072     Document Type: Conference Paper

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