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Electroactive polymers (EAPs) are attracting considerable interest due to their special characteristics, including high flexibility and low weight. Ionic conductive polymers have the potential to play a main role in the realization of smart systems for applications such as bio-inspired and autonomous robotics, medical devices, and aerospace. In this chapter, the fundamental aspects of ionic polymer actuators such as fabrication methods, evaluation methods, and recent progresses are mainly described.

Especially, ionic polymer-metal composites (IPMCs) are one of the most promising EAP materials for the artificial muscle-like actuators and sensors. However, IPMC has some problems to overcome for practical uses. Among the problems, back relaxation and fabrication of IPMC are big issues. In this chapter, some challenges to solve these problems are introduced.

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Kikuchi, K., Tsuchitani, S. (2019). Ionic Conductive Polymers. In: Asaka, K., Okuzaki, H. (eds) Soft Actuators. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6850-9_7

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