Soft Plastic Robots and Artificial Muscles
Ionic polymeric materials suitably made into a functionally-graded composite with a conductor such as a metal, graphite or synthetic metal such as conductive polymers that act as a distributed electrode can exhibit large dynamic deformation if placed in a time-varying electric field (see Fig.s 1and...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2008-11-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems |
| Online Access: | http://www.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/soft_plastic_robots_and_artificial_muscles |