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16. Conducting Polymers as EAPs: Applications

Authors : Keiichi Kaneto, Edwin W. H. Jager, Gursel Alici, Hidenori Okuzaki

Published in: Electromechanically Active Polymers

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Artificial muscles are the longtime dream of human being to replace the existing engines, motors, and piezoelectric actuators because of the low-noise, environment-friendly, and energy-saving actuators (or power force generators). This chapter describes applications of conducting polymers (CPs) to EAPs such as bending actuators, microactuators, and linear actuators. The bending actuators were applied to diaphragm pumps, swimming devices, and flexural-jointed grippers with the trilayer configurations. On the other hand, the microactuators have the advantage of short diffusion times and thus fast actuation. Since the CP actuators operate in any salt solutions, such as a saline solution, cell culture media, and biological liquid, the PPy microactuators have potential applications in microfluidics and drug delivery, cell biology, and medical devices. Furthermore, the linear actuators were developed for the applications to the Braille cells, artificial muscles for soft robots.

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Title: Conducting Polymers as EAPs: Applications
Authors: Keiichi Kaneto
Edwin W. H. Jager
Gursel Alici
Hidenori Okuzaki
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Electromechanically Active Polymers
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-31528-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-31530-0

Copyright Year: 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31530-0_16