Electroactive Polymer Material Based Soft Actuators
A special issue of Actuators (ISSN 2076-0825). This special issue belongs to the section "Actuator Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2021) | Viewed by 3154
Special Issue Editors
Interests: lignin-derived resins; nanocellulose multifunctional composites; smart materials and devices, including electroactive polymers; power harvesting; soft actuators; biosensors; flexible electronics; smart optics
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Interests: smart materials and devices; nanocellulose; elecro active materials; nanocarbon; microfabrication; high strength nanocomposites; energy harvestor; sensor and actuators; optical applications
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Interests: electroactive polymers; active nanocomposite; stretchable electronics; biocompatible polymers; wearable electronic systems; haptic interfaces; soft robotics; smart optics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Soft actuators change their shape or size in response to stimuli such as electricity, heat, light, chemical, or pH. These actuator materials are compliant and well suited for soft mechatronics and robots. Several solid-state actuator materials include shape memory alloy, piezoelectric, magnetostrictive, electrostrictive, and electroactive polymer (EAP). In the last three decades, the field of EAP has received much attention as a result of the development of new EAP materials that exhibit a large deformation. EAP-based soft actuators can offer a range of performance and soft characteristics that other technologies may not reproduce. Owing to light-weight, flexible, and high energy efficiency, soft actuators allow the researchers the opportunity to design compact, light-weight, and compliant actuators to be used in autonomous soft robots. The field of soft actuators faces many fundamental scientific challenges and the optimal exploitation of their properties in applications needs to be better understood. Therefore, this Special Issue targets high-quality publications spanning the following topics:
- Modeling and design of novel EAP-based soft actuators;
- Discovery of EAP materials: IPMC, gels, conducting polymers, carbon-based EAPs, dielectric elastomers, bio-based EAPs, hybrid EAPs, etc.;
- Force, motion, and stiffness control;
- Energy efficiency, actuator performance;
- Applications with a strong focus on the role of soft actuator.
Prof. Dr. Jaehwan Kim
Dr. Hyun Chan Kim
Dr. Sungryul Yun
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- soft actuators
- electroactive polymers
- conducting polymers
- dielectric elastomers
- bio-based EAPs
- hybrid EAPs, gels
- carbon nanotubes
- graphene
