Download or read book Electroactive Polymers and Rapid Prototyping written by Yoseph Bar-Cohen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the proceedings of two symposia held at the 2001 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston. Electroactive polymers (EAPs) continue to emerge from anonymity to the spotlight of the science and engineering community. The characteristics of inducing large displacements, lightweight, easy processing, low cost and the functionality to emulate biological muscles are making EAPs attractive for consideration in an increasing number of applications. To make these materials actuators-of choice, however, it is necessary to solidify the technical foundations and identify niche applications where their unique capabilities provide the necessary edge. Papers focus on a wide range of these issues, from fundamental materials understanding and characterization, to new material development, to novel device concepts and demonstrations. Papers also outline many different rapid prototyping approaches including fused deposition of ceramics, stereolithography, microstamping, directed assembly, plasma spray, laser particle guidance, MAPLE DW, laser CVD, micropen, inkjet and several novel liquid or droplet microdispensing approaches.
Download or read book Electroactive Polymers and Rapid Prototyping Volume 698 written by Yoseph Bar-Cohen and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the contents of two symposia, both held in November 2001: the first part of the volume presents Symposium EE, "Electroactive Polymers and Their Applications as Actuators, Sensors, and Artificial Muscles." These papers address electroactive and nonelectroactive polymers; models, analysis, and simulation of EAP behavior; methods of testing and characterization of EAP properties and performance; support technologies including control, design, and fabrication processes; and applications of EAP actuators. The second part, Symposium Q titled "Rapid Prototyping Technologies--From Tissue Engineering to Conformal Electronics" contains five sections with papers addressing direct writing electronic components; rapid prototyping sensors and structures; energy storage and modeling; liquid and dispensing deposition; and tissue engineering. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Download or read book Electroactive Polymer EAP Actuators as Artificial Muscles written by Yoseph Bar-Cohen and published by SPIE Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the field of EAP with attention to all aspects and full infrastructure, including the available materials, analytical models, processing techniques, and characterization methods. This second edition covers advances in EAP in electric EAP, electroactive polymer gels, ionomeric polymer-metal composites, and carbon nanotube actuators.
Download or read book Dielectric Elastomers as Electromechanical Transducers written by Federico Carpi and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dielectric Elastomers as Electromechanical Transducers provides a comprehensive and updated insight into dielectric elastomers; one of the most promising classes of polymer-based smart materials and technologies. This technology can be used in a very broad range of applications, from robotics and automation to the biomedical field. The need for improved transducer performance has resulted in considerable efforts towards the development of devices relying on materials with intrinsic transduction properties. These materials, often termed as “smart or “intelligent , include improved piezoelectrics and magnetostrictive or shape-memory materials. Emerging electromechanical transduction technologies, based on so-called ElectroActive Polymers (EAP), have gained considerable attention. EAP offer the potential for performance exceeding other smart materials, while retaining the cost and versatility inherent to polymer materials. Within the EAP family, “dielectric elastomers , are of particular interest as they show good overall performance, simplicity of structure and robustness. Dielectric elastomer transducers are rapidly emerging as high-performance “pseudo-muscular actuators, useful for different kinds of tasks. Further, in addition to actuation, dielectric elastomers have also been shown to offer unique possibilities for improved generator and sensing devices. Dielectric elastomer transduction is enabling an enormous range of new applications that were precluded to any other EAP or smart-material technology until recently. This book provides a comprehensive and updated insight into dielectric elastomer transduction, covering all its fundamental aspects. The book deals with transduction principles, basic materials properties, design of efficient device architectures, material and device modelling, along with applications. Concise and comprehensive treatment for practitioners and academics Guides the reader through the latest developments in electroactive-polymer-based technology Designed for ease of use with sections on fundamentals, materials, devices, models and applications
Download or read book Soft Actuators written by Kinji Asaka and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of this book is the current comprehensive research and development of soft actuators, and encompasses interdisciplinary studies of materials science, mechanics, electronics, robotics and bioscience. As an example, the book includes current research on actuators based on biomaterials to provide future perspectives for artificial muscle technology. Readers can obtain detailed, useful information about materials, methods of synthesis, fabrication and measurements. The topics covered here not only promote further research and development of soft actuators but also lead the way to their utilization and industrialization. One outstanding feature of the book is that it contains many color figures, diagrams and photographs clearly describing the mechanism, apparatus and motion of soft actuators. The chapter on modeling is conducive to more extensive design work in materials and devices and is especially useful in the development of practical applications. Readers can acquire the newest technology and information about the basic science and practical applications of flexible, lightweight and noiseless soft actuators, which are quite unlike conventional mechanical engines and electric motors. The new ideas offered in this volume will provide inspiration and encouragement to researchers and developers as they explore new fields of applications for soft actuators.
Download or read book Organic Optoelectronic Materials Processing and Devices Volume 708 written by Zhenan Bao and published by . This book was released on 2002-07-02 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book from the Materials Research Society emphasizes the broad scientific and technological interest in applications of organic materials to optoelectronics and optics. Materials synthesis, modification, and characterization from the nanoscale to the mesoscale to the macroscale are discussed. Approaches for modeling and theoretical analysis of these materials are highlighted. Also featured in the volume are a keynote talk from Professor Alan Heeger, 2000 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, as well as five papers from the Microphotonics symposium that address photonic crystals involving organic materials. Additional topics include: metal/organic interfaces - electronic structure and charge injection; photonic/nonlinear optical materials and devices; design and synthesis of electroluminescent materials; applications in displays; electrochromic polymers/sensors; organic transistors; photovoltaics and photodetectors - transport in bulk organic materials and novel patterning schemes.
Download or read book Symposium written by Ichirō Takeuchi and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nanophase and Nanocomposite Materials written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Magnetic and Electronic Films Microstructure Texture and Application to Data Storage Volume 721 written by Patrick W. DeHaven and published by . This book was released on 2002-08-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The MRS Symposium Proceeding series is an internationally recognised reference suitable for researchers and practitioners.
Download or read book Spintronics written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thin Films Stresses and Mechanical Properties IX Volume 695 written by Materials Research Society. Meeting and published by . This book was released on 2002-04 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The MRS Symposium Proceeding series is an internationally recognised reference suitable for researchers and practitioners.
Download or read book BioMEMS and Bionanotechnology written by Ronald P. Manginell and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) can be a critical link between the macroworld and the realm of nanobiotechnology. Top-down MEMS methods and devices will likely serve as an important handle for interfacing with the bottom-up techniques and structures that typify nanobiotechnology. This volume focuses on recent advances in the fields of MEMS and BioMEMS, including microfluidics, bioanalysis, packaging, materials and fabrication methods. It is clear from these presentations that top-down semiconductor-based processing remains vital. Indeed, frontiers are expanding within this realm, with new research on materials like poly-SiGe. However, new materials, particularly polymers, and bottom-up methods such as soft lithography and chemical synthesis, are continually gaining in utility and importance. It is also apparent from this volume that microanalytical techniques continue to be advanced, including new ways of separating samples by optical, adhesion-based and dielectrophoretic methods. And sensors, always of interest, are demonstrated here by research into sensors for environmental and material analysis. Capacitance-based sensors for DNA analysis, and magnetic sensors for position sensing, are also highlighted. Finally, systems for direct interfacing with biological systems are addressed, with presentations on neural recording methods, retinal implants, and tissue engineering.
Download or read book Electrically Based Microstructural Characterization III Volume 699 written by Rosario A. Gerhardt and published by . This book was released on 2002-09-05 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the topics of invited papers are the electrical characterization of inhomogeneous and heterogeneous systems with microstructural periodicity, impedance spectroscopy in ferromagnetic materials, the materials characterization and device performance of a CMR- ferroelectric heterostructure, and broadband dielectric spectroscopic investigations into the influence of confinement on the molecular reorientational dynamics of liquid crystals. Many papers besides the 48 selected here are expected to appear in various scientific journals. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Nanophase and Nanocomposite Materials IV Volume 703 written by Sridhar Komarneni and published by . This book was released on 2002-04 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The MRS Symposium Proceeding series is an internationally recognised reference suitable for researchers and practitioners.
Download or read book Ferroelectric Thin Films X Volume 688 written by Materials Research Society. Meeting and published by . This book was released on 2002-05 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The MRS Symposium Proceeding series is an internationally recognised reference suitable for researchers and practitioners.
Download or read book Materials Science of Microelectromechanical Systems MEMS Devices written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book GaN and Related Alloys 2001 Volume 693 written by John E. Northrup and published by . This book was released on 2002-07-23 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The MRS Symposium Proceeding series is an internationally recognised reference suitable for researchers and practitioners.
