Electroactive polymer actuators as artificial muscles: Are they ready for bioinspired applications?

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Carpi, Federico ^a,b   Kornbluh, Roy ^c   Sommer Larsen, Peter ^d   Alici, Gursel ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b Technology and Life Institute   (Italy)

^c SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL; POLYMER;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MECHANICAL STRESS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRANSDUCER; YOUNG MODULUS;

ANIMALS; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; ELASTIC MODULUS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POLYMERS; ROBOTICS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 82755192182     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/6/4/045006     Document Type: Article

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