Force and stroke of a hydrogel actuator

Soft Matter

Volumn 9, Issue 35, 2013, Pages 8504-8511

  Illeperuma, Widusha R K ^a,b   Sun, Jeong Yun ^a,b   Suo, Zhigang ^a,b   Vlassak, Joost J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATOR MATERIALS; CROSS-LINK DENSITIES; EXPERIMENTAL CURVES; EXPERIMENTAL METHODS; EXTERNAL STIMULUS; HYDROGEL ACTUATORS; TEMPERATURE-SENSITIVE HYDROGELS; VOLUME PHASE TRANSITION;

ACTUATORS;

HYDROGELS;

EID: 84882796276     PISSN: 1744683X     EISSN: 17446848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c3sm51617b     Document Type: Article

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