Dielectric elastomer actuators for active microfluidic control

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8687, Issue , 2013, Pages

  McCoul, David ^a   Murray, Coleman ^b   Di Carlo, Dino ^b   Pei, Qibing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Engineering IV   (United States)

Author keywords

Active microfluidic control; Artificial muscle; Blockage clearing; Dielectric elastomer actuator; Electroactive polymer; MEMS; Microchannel actuation; Tunable channel geometry

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE; BLOCKAGE CLEARING; CHANNEL GEOMETRY; DIELECTRIC ELASTOMER ACTUATORS; ELECTRO-ACTIVE POLYMERS; MICROFLUIDIC CONTROL;

CONDUCTING POLYMERS; ELASTOMERS; MEMS; MICROFILTRATION; MICROFLUIDICS; PLASTICS; SILICONES;

ELECTROACTIVE POLYMER ACTUATORS;

EID: 84878701849     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2009576     Document Type: Conference Paper

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