The main attractive characteristic of. Electroactive polymers. EAP is their operational similarity to biological muscles, particularly their resilience. The book is the first attempt to give a full review of the state-of-the-art within polymer actuators. Their contribution is highly appreciated and it helped making this book of significantly greater value to the readers:. This is one single chapter, but it is with good reasons that the editors choose to present it in a separate subtopic.
Chapter 3 covers the leading EAP materials and the principles that are responsible for their electroactivity. The reader should realize however, that conjugated polymers have been studied for decades and a whole book could have been attributed to the description of those materials. Natural muscles Two chapters by Gerald H.
This book covers EAP from all its key aspects, i. Structural reorganisation on the molecular level also occurs in a number of the other technologies, take an example: The chapter is informative and give a detailed account of much of the work on CP actuators. The team members included Dr. In this second edition the reader is brought current on promising advances in EAP that have occurred in electric EAP, electroactive polymer gels, ionomeric polymer-metal composites, carbon nanotube actuators, and more.
Both topics are devoted one chapter written by the editor and co-workers. The editor himself writes both. The chapter covers especially well the pioneering work performed in the group of professor Toribio Otero, at the University of the Basque Country, Spain now the Polytechnical University of Cartagena, Spain.
It covers the developments up to Light, flexible, noiseless actuators with stroke, force and efficiency similar to or better than that of human muscles are promises of polymer actuators. Polymers are a promising alternative to materials commonly used for actuators, such as piezoelectric ceramics, shape memory alloys, magnetostrictive materials, and electrorheological fluids. He sums up the advantages and disadvantages of EAP materials, point to challenges to be overcome in the future development of EAP and reviews a long list of possible and actual application areas.
Richard Claus, VT; Prof. This characteristic is a valuable attribute, which enabled myriad potential applications, and e,ectroactive has evolved to offer operational similarity to biological muscles. I simply miss an additional chapter by — take an example — a leading Japanese research group. IPMC actuators are also covered in a later chapter, but the book would certainly have been strengthened by a contribution from the group, who have been leading in the practical development of IPMC actuators: Making a floating robot fish may not be an exciting event, but this is the first commercial product to use an EAP actuator.
A special thanks to Dr. Lesson learned, Applications and Outlook This is the summary remark by the editor. Also, not all areas of polymer actuators are given equal attention. They always had enormous potential, but only now is this potential starting to materialize.
This book covers EAP from all its key aspects, i. It covers the developments up to EAPs are plastic materials that change shape and size when given some voltage or current. This topic is covered in five chapters. The chapter covers especially well the pioneering work performed in the group of professor Toribio Otero, at the University of the Basque Country, Spain now the Polytechnical University of Cartagena, Spain. Chapter 5 examines the processing methods of fabricating, shaping, electroding, and integrating techniques for the production of fibers, films, and other shapes of EAP actuators.
The editor would like to polyker everyone who contributed to his efforts, both as part of his team advancing the technology as well as those who helped with the preparation of this book.
The reader should realize however, that conjugated polymers have msucles studied for decades and a whole book could have been attributed to the description of those materials. Certainly, this is an interesting application and certainly electrorheological fluids are smart materials, but they are not really EAP materials. For a book reviewing the developments of polymer actuators, the many Japanese and European developments within electrically activated polymer gels are poorly covered, the development of actuators based on ionomeric polymer metal composites done at the University of New Mexico could have deserved more attention.
Processing techniques, such as ink-jet printing, may potentially be employed to make complete devices that are driven by EAP actuators. Two chapters by Gerald H. View 1 excerpt, cites results. The Imitation of Muscles Stretching Device.
This paper presents a review of some of the applications for artificial muscle and several material of artificial muscle. We focus attention on the polymer material artificial muscle, which responds … Expand. Development of nylon-based artificial muscles for the usage in robotic prosthetic limb.
This paper describes the development of nylon-based artificial muscles that is intended to be used in prosthetic limb for young amputees. Prosthetic limbs are very expensive and this situation is … Expand.
Medicine, Materials Science. View 1 excerpt, cites background. Exploring dielectric elastomers as actuators for hand tremor suppression. Computer Science, Engineering. Flexible dielectric elastomer actuators for wearable human-machine interfaces. Materials Science, Engineering.
Wearable dielectric elastomer actuators have the potential to enable new technologies, such as tactile feedback gloves for virtual reality, and to improve existing devices, such as automatic blood … Expand. Artificial exomuscle investigations for applications--metal hydride. Biomedical materials. Applied Materials Today. Abstract Inspired by Nature, one of the most ambitious challenge in soft robotics is to design actuators capable of reaching performances comparable to the skeletal muscles.
Considering the perfectly … Expand. Soft robotics.
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