Origami actuators

Folded origami shapes, micro/nanorods, and bundled films have all displayed promising qualities for artificial muscles [108-110]. Origami actuators fabricated from folded PPy films have shown large strains at lower voltages and can be manipulated into a variety of shapes [110]. Nanotubular stmcture of conductive polymers is one of the ideal structures that can enhance device performance by improving... 

Okuzaki, H. Saido, T. Suzuki, H. Kara, Y. Yan, H. A biomorphic origami actuator fabricated by folding a conducting paper. J. Phys. Conf. Sen 2008,127, 012001. 

Fig. 21 Schematic illustrating the fabrication process (a-d) of accordionshaped origami actuator and the photographs before annealing (e) and after annealing under 0 V (f) and 2 V (g) (Reproduced from Okuzaki et al. (2008, 2013b))...

Fig. 3 (a) Linear actuation of a conducting polymer-coated fiber (Reproduced from Ismail et al. (2011), with permission irom Elsevier), (b) Origami shapes with polypyrrole-coated paper (Reproduced from Okuzaki et al. (2008), with permission from the Institue of Physics), (c) Linear actuator from two bending triple layer actuator (Reproduced from Otero et al. (2007), with... 

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