Advances in polymeric materials for electromechanical devices

BT White, TE Long - Macromolecular rapid communications, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Electroactive polymers (EAP) provide lightweight and cost‐effective materials that enable
the next generation of electromechanical devices. Commercial polymers have historically …

Development of ionic liquid-based electroactive polymer composites using nanotechnology

Y Dong, KW Yeung, CY Tang, WC Law… - Nanotechnology …, 2021 - degruyter.com
This review is intended to provide an overview of the design and fabrication of ionic liquid-
based ionic electroactive polymer (IL-iEAP) transducers for advanced applications in …

Development and analysis of a 3D printed hydrogel soft actuator

A Zolfagharian, AZ Kouzani, SY Khoo… - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2017 - Elsevier
Polyelectrolyte hydrogels produce mechanical motion in response to electrical stimulus
making them a good candidate for implementation of soft actuators. However, their …

Polyelectrolyte soft actuators: 3D printed chitosan and cast gelatin

A Zolfagharian, A Kaynak, SY Khoo… - 3D Printing and Additive …, 2018 - liebertpub.com
With increasing utilization of robots in daily tasks, especially in biomedical and
environmental monitoring applications, there would be demands for soft, biodegradable, or …

Simultaneous voltammetric determination of hydroquinone and catechol by using a glassy carbon electrode modified with carboxy-functionalized carbon nanotubes in …

Y Shen, D Rao, Q Sheng, J Zheng - Microchimica Acta, 2017 - Springer
The authors describe a method to anchor gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) on carboxy-
functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotubes (c-MWCNTs) utilizing chitosan as dispersing …

Improved output force response speed of the biological gel artificial muscle prepared from carboxylated chitosan and sodium carboxymethyl cellulose

J Wang, T Lang, H Liu, Y Chen, L Li… - Mechanics of Advanced …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
A high response speed biological gel artificial muscle (BGAM) with a networked pore
structure is proposed. The BGAM is prepared from carboxylated chitosan and sodium …

Conducting electrospun fibres with polyanionic grafts as highly selective, label-free, electrochemical biosensor with a low detection limit for non-Hodgkin lymphoma …

TE Kerr-Phillips, N Aydemir, EWC Chan… - Biosensors and …, 2018 - Elsevier
A highly selective, label-free sensor for the non-Hodgkin lymphoma gene, with an aM
detection limit, utilizing electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) is presented. The …

Preparation of thiolated chitosan/silver nanowire composite hydrogels with antimicrobial activity for obstetric wound care

J Li, L Li, J Lv, C Wang, Y Liu - Materials Letters, 2020 - Elsevier
Bacterial infection is one of the most crucial challenges toward the wound treatment. Thus,
the development of highly efficient antibacterial agents with enhanced wound healing ability …

Highly electro-responsive plasticized PVC/FMWCNTs soft composites: A novel flex actuator with functional characteristics

I Ali, W Yang, X Li, A Ali, Z Jiao, P **e, OAT Dias… - European Polymer …, 2020 - Elsevier
Electro-responsive devices are used in actuators and artificial muscles but susceptible low
deformation limits its applications. Herein, we prepared soft composites from functional multi …

Fabrication of a high-performance bending actuator made with a PVC gel

EJ Shin, WH Park, SY Kim - Applied Sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
This paper proposes a small, transparent, electroactive and highly deformable poly vinyl
chloride (PVC) gel-based bending actuator. The effect of the PVC molecular weight and …