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Sensing Properties and Physical Model of Ionic Polymer

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Ionic polymer shows great potential to imitate natural mechanical sensation because of ion-migration mechanism. In this chapter, sensing properties of IPMC sensor were introduced. Under a bending deformation, how ambient humidity influenced the voltage response of IPMC was investigated. And then the effect of various cations on the electrical responses of IPMC at various ambient humidities was revealed by a series of experiments. The electrical response evolvement with water content and cation type was explained thoroughly based on transport theory. Further, a multi-physical model was set up for IPMC sensor by utilizing the same equations for IPMC actuator. Numerical results showed that the model was capable to fit the voltage and current response of IPMC with various cations at different humidities well. Finally, we presented a new concept of ionic polymer senor based on deeply understanding on sensing mechanism. A 3 × 3 pressure sensor array was presented, which showed much higher voltage. It proved that ionic polymer sensor can work as a pressure sensor, not a cantilever anymore. It makes us believe that ionic polymer sensor is a promising direction and still far from well developed.

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  1. Shaanxi Key Lab of Intelligent Robots, School of Mechanical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

    Zicai Zhu & Hualing Chen

  2. School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Hohai University, Changzhou, China

    Yanjie Wang

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Zhu, Z., Chen, H., Wang, Y. (2019). Sensing Properties and Physical Model of Ionic Polymer. In: Asaka, K., Okuzaki, H. (eds) Soft Actuators. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6850-9_29

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