Electroactive polymers as actuators

Y Bar-Cohen, VF Cardoso, C Ribeiro… - Advanced piezoelectric …, 2017 - Elsevier
Electroactive polymers (EAP) are actuators that most closely emulate biological muscles
compared to any other actuators that are human-made; therefore they earned the moniker …

Electrets substituting external bias voltage in dielectric elastomer generators: application to human motion

T Vu-Cong, C Jean-Mistral… - Smart materials and …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Dielectric elastomer generators offer great potential for soft applications involving fluid or
human interactions. These scavengers are light, compliant, have a wide range of functions …

Performance evaluation of supercapacitors based on activated carbons and investigation of the impact of aging on the electrodes

A Erradi, S Touhtouh, J El Fallah, A El Ballouti… - Journal of Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Being reliability critical components, and widely used in electronics today, supercapacitors,
especially activated carbon (AC) based ones, are attracting great attentions for their …

A bibliometric analysis of low-cost piezoelectric micro-energy harvesting systems from ambient energy sources: Current trends, issues and suggestions

MR Sarker, MHM Saad, A Riaz, MSH Lipu… - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
The scientific interest in piezoelectric micro-energy harvesting (PMEH) has been fast-
growing, demonstrating that the field has made a major improvement in the long-term …

Theoretical modeling of power harvested by piezo-cellular polymers

C Ennawaoui, A Hajjaji, A Azim… - Molecular Crystals and …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
In recent years, piezoelectric polymers have been widely used as smart materials.
Electromechanical applications are currently focused on energy harvesting, including the …

Improvement in energy conversion of electrostrictive composite materials by new approach via piezoelectric effect: Modeling and experiments

R Farhan, A Eddiai, M Meddad… - Polymers for …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This study proposes a new model that couples the piezoelectric and electrostrictive behavior
to minimize the polarization power of composite polymer. The development of this model is …

Dielectric characterization of lead zirconate-titane (PZT)/polyurethane (PU) thin film composite: Volume fraction, frequency and temperature dependence

S Aboubakr, M Rguiti, M Yessari… - … Crystals and Liquid …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Lead Zirconate-titane (PZT) ceramic is known by its piezoelectric
characteristic, but also by its stiffness. The use of a composite based on a polyurethane (PU) …

Pedestrian crossing system for the mechanical energy harvesting using piezoelectric materials

Z Malki, C Ennawaoui, A Hajjaji, I Najihi… - IOP conference …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
In recent years, researchers have been develo** solutions to reduce our energy
consumption by optimizing existing systems in different ways. Indeed, it is not enough just to …

Model of piezoelectric self powered supply for wearable devices

M Meddad, A Eddiai, A Cherif, A Hajjaji… - Superlattices and …, 2014 - Elsevier
With the development in a few latter years, of micros electromechanical technology (MEMS),
the demand in wearable electronics and in cordless detectors is more and more important …

Electromechanical losses evaluation by energy-efficient method using the electrostrictive composites: experiments and modeling

R Farhan, A Eddiai, M Meddad… - Smart Materials and …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent directions in electromechanical conversion have explained the features of using
electrostrictive polymers as will create new opportunities in sensing and energy harvester …