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Conducting Polymers as EAPs: Applications

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Electromechanically Active Polymers

Part of the book series: Polymers and Polymeric Composites: A Reference Series ((POPOC))

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Artificial muscles are the longtime dream of human being to replace the existing engines, motors, and piezoelectric actuators because of the low-noise, environment-friendly, and energy-saving actuators (or power force generators). This chapter describes applications of conducting polymers (CPs) to EAPs such as bending actuators, microactuators, and linear actuators. The bending actuators were applied to diaphragm pumps, swimming devices, and flexural-jointed grippers with the trilayer configurations. On the other hand, the microactuators have the advantage of short diffusion times and thus fast actuation. Since the CP actuators operate in any salt solutions, such as a saline solution, cell culture media, and biological liquid, the PPy microactuators have potential applications in microfluidics and drug delivery, cell biology, and medical devices. Furthermore, the linear actuators were developed for the applications to the Braille cells, artificial muscles for soft robots.

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  1. Kyushu Institute of Technology, Eamex Co. Ltd, Chuoku, Fukuoka, Japan

    Keiichi Kaneto

  2. Osaka Institute of Technology, Eamex Co. Ltd., 5-16-1 Omiya, Asahi-ku, 535-8585, Osaka, Japan

    Keiichi Kaneto

  3. Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM), Linköping University, 58183, Linköping, Sweden

    Edwin W. H. Jager

  4. Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Linköping University, 58183, Linköping, Sweden

    Edwin W. H. Jager

  5. School of Mechanical, Materials, and Mechatronic Engineering, ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, 2522, NSW, Australia

    Gursel Alici

  6. Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering, University of Yamanashi, 4-4-37, Takeda, 400-8511, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan

    Hidenori Okuzaki

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Kaneto, K., Jager, E.W.H., Alici, G., Okuzaki, H. (2016). Conducting Polymers as EAPs: Applications. In: Carpi, F. (eds) Electromechanically Active Polymers. Polymers and Polymeric Composites: A Reference Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31530-0_16

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