Implantable Heart-Assist and Compression Devices Employing an Active Network of Electrically-Controllable Ionic Polymer-Metal Nanocomposites

Biomedical Applications of Electroactive Polymer Actuators

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 137-159

  Shahinpoor, Mohsen ^a  

^a The University of Maine   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed nanosensing and transduction; Electrically induced robotic actuation; Heart failure; Implantable heart assist and compression devices employing active network of electrically controllable ionic polymer metal nanocomposites; IPMNC application to heart compression; IPMNCs background; Manufacturing thick IPMNC fingers; Modeling and simulation; Three dimensional fabrication of IPMNCs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866675502     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470744697.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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