Ionic Polymer Actuators: Principle, Fabrication and Applications

Wang, Yanjie; Sugino, Takushi

doi:10.5772/intechopen.75085

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“…The past decades have seen tremendous developments in microscale actuation systems capable of precise, stable, and robust locomotion control with minimum energy consumption. [27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36] These systems can walk, [134][135][136][137] roll, [138] swim, [139][140][141][142][143] glide, [55] and jump [55,143,144] through different environments similar to their biological counterparts.…”

Section: Locomotionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…[214,215] The demand for such actuators in soft and rigid robots at the small scale has triggered rapid development in materials science to produce many new actuation mechanisms that respond to a variety of stimuli, for example, light, heat, electrical, and magnetic fields. [27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][157][158][159][160][161][162][163][164][165][166][167][216][217][218] A wide range of polymer materials can be used for small-scale actuation. They can be classified into three main categories: magnetic, thermal, and electroactive polymer actuators.…”

Section: On-board Actuationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…[39,218] The materials for the development of soft actuators can be categorized into PDMS or related elastomers, hydrogels, photoresponsive polymers, and ionic polymers. [27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][157][158][159][160][161][162][163][164][165][166][167][216][217][218] When the LVSDEA expands, the leg is pushed forward. When the LVSDEA contracts, the leg remains nearly static due to directional friction, and the robot body moves forward.…”

Section: On-board Actuationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…respond to stimuli like electricity, heat, or light. [27][28][29] Actuators such as ionic-polymer metal composites, [30] ionic gels, [31,32] shape memory polymers, [33,34] and liquid crystal polymers [35,36] have led to soft and robust SEMRs. [37][38][39][40] The assembly of soft materials with simple structures makes the SEMR demonstrated in the study by Wu et al [37] exceptionally robust.…”

Section: Introduction To the Field: Coming From The Top And Going Downmentioning

confidence: 99%

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System‐Engineered Miniaturized Robots: From Structure to Intelligence

Bandari

Schmidt

2021

Advanced Intelligent Systems

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The development of small machines, once envisioned by Feynman decades ago, has stimulated significant research in materials science, robotics, and computer science. Over the past years, the field of miniaturized robotics has rapidly expanded with many research groups contributing to the numerous challenges inherent to this field. Smart materials have played a particularly important role as they have imparted miniaturized robots with new functionalities and distinct capabilities. However, despite all efforts and many available soft materials and innovative technologies, a fully autonomous system‐engineered miniaturized robot (SEMR) of any practical relevance has not been developed yet. In this review, the foundation of SEMRs is discussed and six main areas (structure, motion, sensing, actuation, energy, and intelligence) which require particular efforts to push the frontiers of SEMRs further are identified. During the past decade, miniaturized robotic research has mainly relied on simplicity in design, and fabrication. A careful examination of current SEMRs that are physically, mechanically, and electrically engineered shows that they fall short in many ways concerning miniaturization, full‐scale integration, and self‐sufficiency. Some of these issues have been identified in this review. Some are inevitably yet to be explored, thus, allowing to set the stage for the next generation of intelligent, and autonomously operating SEMRs.

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Section: On-board Actuationmentioning

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Section: Introduction To the Field: Coming From The Top And Going Downmentioning

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System‐Engineered Miniaturized Robots: From Structure to Intelligence

Bandari

Schmidt

2021

Advanced Intelligent Systems

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“…IPMC consists of a polyelectrolyte membrane, on which a noble metal is plated on both the faces. To balance the balance the electrical [11] charge of the anions, it is neutralized with certain counter ions that are covalently fix to the membrane [9].Ion exchange capability and the water uptake are the two mandatory criterias used for base-polymer selection for IPMC manufacturing; on the basis of which, Nafion [16]. Flemion, Aciplex etc are popularly used [10].…”

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Design Concept of a Bio-Electronic Heart using Artificial Muscle

Khan¹

2021

IJRASET

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The objective of this study paper is to introduce a new preliminary design of a bio-electronic heart which will facilitate the use of artificial muscle and an electric pulse generator which will enable the structure to act-alike the biological heart. The following research on this design will aim at creating a solution for less heart transplant donors available, transplant rejection and following immunosuppressant medication given to suppress the contradictory reactions between donors and recipients tissues.

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A 3D analytical ion transport model for ionic polymer metal composite actuators in large bending deformations

Annabestani

Naghavi

Maymandi-Nejad

2021

Sci Rep

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Ionic polymer metal composites (IPMCs) are a kind of soft electroactive polymer composites. An IPMC strip commonly has a thin polymer membrane coated with a noble metal as electrodes on both sides. Whenever an electric voltage is applied to the IPMC, it bends and whenever it is deformed, a low voltage is measurable between its electrodes, hence IPMC is an actuator as well as a sensor. They are well known for their promising features like low density, lightness, high toughness and remarkable stimulus strain, also, they have the potential for low-voltage operation while exhibiting acceptable large bending deformation. In this paper, a three-dimensional (3D), dynamic and physics-based model is presented analytically and experimentally for IPMC actuators. The model combines the ion transport dynamics within the IPMC and the bending dynamics of it as a beam under an electrical stimulation. In particular, we present an analytical model to create a relation between the input voltage and the output tip displacement of an IPMC actuator for large bending deformations. Experimental results show that the proposed model captures well the tip displacement.

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Ionic Polymer Actuators: Principle, Fabrication and Applications

Cited by 8 publications

References 43 publications

System‐Engineered Miniaturized Robots: From Structure to Intelligence

System‐Engineered Miniaturized Robots: From Structure to Intelligence

Design Concept of a Bio-Electronic Heart using Artificial Muscle

A 3D analytical ion transport model for ionic polymer metal composite actuators in large bending deformations

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