Micro-Manipulation and Bandwidth Characterization of Ionic Polymer Actuators

Ionic polymer materials are a class of electroactive polymers that have been used in recent applications that take advantage of their large bending deflection. Although these materials have been around since the 1960s, it has only been in the last decade that their electromechanical coupling has be...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kothera, Curt S.
Other Authors: Mechanical Engineering
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35982
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12062002-110547/