The performance of fast-moving low-voltage electromechanical actuators based on single-walled carbon nanotubes and ionic liquids

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Mukai, Ken ^a   Asaka, Kinji ^a   Hata, Kenji ^a   Oike, Hideaki ^b  

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

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BREAKING STRENGTH; DISPLACEMENT MEASUREMENTS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRO-MECHANICAL ACTUATOR; ELECTROLYTE LAYERS; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; LOW-VOLTAGE; MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; MODIFIED CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITIONS; YOUNG'S MODULUS;

ACTUATORS; CARBON; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; IONIC LIQUIDS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; WATER VAPOR;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 82755171694     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/20/12/124008     Document Type: Article

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