Current status and future prospects of power generators using dielectric elastomers

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Chiba, Seiki ^a   Waki, Mikio ^b   Kornbluh, Roy ^c   Pelrine, Ron ^c  

^a Chiba Science Institute   (Japan)

^b Wits Inc   (Japan)

^c SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE; CURRENT STATUS; DIELECTRIC ELASTOMERS; ELECTRICAL ENERGY; ELECTRICAL POWER; ELECTRO-ACTIVE POLYMERS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENERGY; FREQUENCY OF OPERATION; FUTURE PROSPECTS; GENERATOR APPLICATIONS; HIGH ENERGY; HIGH ENERGY DENSITIES; HUMAN MOTIONS; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; POWER OUT PUT; SCALE-UP; WATER CURRENTS; WATER TURBINES; WAVE HEIGHTS;

CONDUCTING POLYMERS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELASTOMERS; FUEL STORAGE; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN FUELS; HYDROGEN STORAGE; POWER QUALITY; TOXIC MATERIALS; WATER WAVES;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 82755176008     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/20/12/124006     Document Type: Article

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