Artificial muscles based on conducting polymers
✍ Scribed by T.F. Otero; J.M. Sansiñena
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 336 KB
- Volume
- 38
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1567-5394
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Electrical currents trigger oxidation or reduction reactions in conducting polymers. Changes in volume associated with these redox processes can be transformed into macroscopic movements of more than 180" by the construction of a bilayer: polypyrrole-flexible and inactive polymer (artificial muscle)
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