Symposium C Electroactive Polymers:Advances in Materials and Devices

摘要

The unique capability of inducing large displacements - as high as two orders of magnitude greater than the rigid and fragile piezoelectric ceramics - coupled with other attractive properties such as more favourable spectral response, lower density and higher resilience compared to shape memory alloys, make electroactive polymers (EAPs) of interest for a range of niche applications that exploit their intrinsic properties not only as actuators targeted to augment and possibly replace biological muscles, but also in a number of different areas as sensors, displays, energy harvesters, and microelectronic, optical, bio-mimetic and MEMS devices.