Polymer Sensors and Actuators

✍ Scribed by Yoshiro Sakai (auth.), Prof. Yoshihito Osada, Prof. Danilo E. De Rossi (eds.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Leaves: 429
Series: Macromolecular Systems — Materials Approach
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Sensors and Actuators using polymeric systems is one of the most promising fields of "Intelligent Polymers", which is becoming more and more important associating with artificial sensing and actuating systems in living organisms. Some practical applications have now started to test in industry. The book covers optical, gas, taste, and other sensing systems using various kinds of polymers. Soft and wet actuating systems using polymer gels and networks are another field which caused excitation in the last year. The contributors are all pioneers in the field, and were selected from world-wide level. They provide the necessary background information and science to develop a basic understanding of the field, its supporting technologies and current applications. Besides, the overviews will provide a sense of how these supporting technologies can be combined to meet the requirements of advanced systems. Finally, the readers will learn about potential future developments.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XIX
Ion Conducting Polymer Sensors....Pages 1-13
Ultrathin Films for Sensorics and Molecular Electronics....Pages 15-90
Polymers for Optical Fiber Sensors....Pages 91-107
Smart Ferroelectric Ceramic/Polymer Composite Sensors....Pages 109-147
Sensing Volatile Chemicals Using Conducting Polymer Arrays....Pages 149-181
Molecular Machines Useful for the Design of Chemosensor....Pages 183-206
Conducting Polymer Actuators: Properties and Modeling....Pages 207-244
Electrically Induced Strain in Polymer Gels Swollen with Non-Ionic Organic Solvents....Pages 245-258
Actuating Devices of Liquid-Crystalline Polymers....Pages 259-272
Gel Actuators....Pages 273-294
Electrochemomechanical Devices Based on Conducting Polymers....Pages 295-323
Ion-Exchange Polymer-Metal Composites as Biomimetic Sensors and Actuators....Pages 325-359
Motor Protein Mechanism Coupled with Hydrophobic Hydration/Dehydration Cycle....Pages 361-369
Actuating Systems in Biology....Pages 371-383
Magnetic Field Sensitive Polymeric Actuators....Pages 385-408
Back Matter....Pages 409-420

✦ Subjects

Polymer Sciences; Analytical Chemistry; Biomedical Engineering; Condensed Matter Physics; Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering

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