Impact of carbon nanotube additives on carbide-derived carbon-based electroactive polymer actuators

Carbon

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4351-4358

  Palmre, Viljar ^a   Torop, Janno ^a   Arulepp, Mati ^b   Sugino, Takushi ^c   Asaka, Kinji ^c   Jänes, Alar ^a   Lust, Enn ^a   Aabloo, Alvo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b Skeleton Technologies OÜ   (Estonia)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLIED VOLTAGES; BENDING FORCE; BENDING STRAIN; CARBIDE DERIVED CARBON; CARBON-BASED; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRO-ACTIVE POLYMERS; ELECTROCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS; HIGH FREQUENCY; LOWER FREQUENCIES; MESOPOROSITY;

ACTUATORS; ADDITIVES; CARBIDES; CARBON; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROACTIVE POLYMER ACTUATORS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES;

EID: 84863719686     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2012.04.071     Document Type: Article

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