Thermo-mechanical characterization of polypyrrole compliance using system identification

Conducting polymers such as polypyrrole are studied as novel biologically inspired actuators. Their capacity to generate stresses of up to 5 MPa, strains of up to 10% at low voltages (2 V) make them ideal candidates to be used as artificial muscle materials. It has been shown that the modulus of pol...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Pillai, Priam Vasudevan, Hunter, Ian
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. BioInstrumentation Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/53517
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8251-5432