Superior performance of non-activated multi-walled carbon nanotube polymer actuator containing ruthenium oxide over a single-walled carbon nanotube

Carbon

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1888-1896

  Terasawa, Naohiro ^a   Mukai, Ken ^a   Yamato, Kentaro ^a   Asaka, Kinji ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE-LAYER CAPACITANCE; ELECTROMECHANICAL PROPERTY; LARGE STRAINS; POLYMER ACTUATORS; QUICK RESPONSE; RUTHENIUM OXIDE; TACTILE DISPLAY;

ELECTROMECHANICAL ACTUATORS; IONIC LIQUIDS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); POLYMERS; RUTHENIUM ALLOYS; RUTHENIUM COMPOUNDS;

ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES;

EID: 84856711077     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2011.12.039     Document Type: Article

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