Automated Spray Deposition Platform for Additive Manufacturing of P(VDF-TrFE CTFE) Actuators

Unlike conventional actuators, unimorph bending cantilever actuators rely on deformation of bulk material, and therefore require no complex mechanisms or moving components. This allows for simple fabrication, and makes them suitable for miniaturisation. This enables various applications not feasible or practical with conventional actuators,...

Measuring Sensing Characteristics of Bending Electroactive Polymer Transducers

Electroactive polymers (EAPs) are smart materials that have electromechanical and mechanoelectrical transduction properties. They are flexible, lightweight, easy to shape and cheap to produce. These properties allow EAPs to be used as actuators or sensors in applications such as soft robotics, metamaterial structures, or other future...