Electromechanical actuation of buckypaper actuator: Material properties and performance relationships

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 376, Issue 12-13, 2012, Pages 1132-1136

  Cottinet, P J ^a   Souders, C ^a   Tsai, S Y ^a   Liang, R ^a   Wang, B ^a   Zhang, C ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Actuator; Buckypaper; Carbon nanotube; Electroactive polymer; Smart material

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; CARBON NANOTUBES; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; INTELLIGENT MATERIALS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOTUBES; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

BUCKYPAPER; ELECTRICAL DOUBLE LAYERS; ELECTRO-ACTIVE POLYMERS; ELECTRO-MECHANICAL ACTUATIONS; ENGINEERING SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBES; THIN FILM MATERIAL;

ELECTROMECHANICAL ACTUATORS;

EID: 84862776689     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2012.02.011     Document Type: Article

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