Ionic polymer-metal composites systems

A Systems Perspective on Modeling of Ionic Polymer-Metal Composites... 

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Paquette, J. W., Kim, K. J., Nam, J.-D. and Tak, Y. S. (2003). An Equivalent Circuit Model for Ionic Polymer-Metal Composites and their Performance Improvement by a Clay-Based Polymer Nano-Composite Technique, Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures 14, 10, pp. 633-642. 

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Kamamichi, N., Yamakita, M., Kozuki, T., et al. (2007) Doping effects on robotic systems with ionic polymer-metal composite actuators, Adv. Robotics, 21, 65-85. 

Fang, B.K., Ju, M.S., Lin, C.K. (2007) A new approach to develop ionic polymer-metal composites (IPMC) actuator Fabrication and control for active catheter systems. Sensors and Actuators A Physical, 137, 321-9. 

Fig. 8 Experimental setup for system identification (Reproduced from Development of an artificial muscle linear actuator using ionic polymer metal composites. Yamakita M, Kamamichi N, Kaneda Y, Asaka K, Luo ZW, Advanced Robotics, 2004, Taylor Francis Ltd, reprinted by permission of the publisher Taylor Francis Ltd, www.tandfonline.com)...

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Biomimetics is the development of novel technologies through the distillation of principles from the study of biological systems (Lepora et al. 2013). Because ionic polymer-metal composites (IPMCs) can be driven by low voltage and usually require water for work (Shahinpoor et al. 1998), it is an attractive idea to use IPMCs for biomimetic robots (Bar-Cohen and Breazeal 2003 Roper et al. 2011 Chu et al. 2012 Kim et al. 2013). 

This chapter describes how to start experiments with ionic polymer-metal composite (IPMC) actuators. In the first part, a fabrication of IPMC actuator element is summarized. In the next part, how to setup a measurement system of IPMC actuator and test the actuator performance is described. In the last part, a control method of IPMC actuator is discussed. From the information in this chapter, experiments with IPMC actuators can be started. 

The ionic conductivity of the MEEP/metal salt systems was improved by adding a-Al203 particles into the complexes. Chen-Yang [603] obtained a conductivity 0=9.7x10" S cm" for the composite polymer complex MEEP/Li-CIO4/2.5 wt% AI2O3. The cation transport number was in this case 0.77. 

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