Thermoplastic electroactive gels for 3D-printable artificial muscles

WorldWide ElectroActive Polymers EAP ( Artificial Muscles ) Newsletter

1 FROM THE EDITOR Yoseph Bar-Cohen, [email protected] This issue reports the latest progress in the fields of Electroactive Polymers (EAP) and biomimetics. Some of the latest development at the various lab worldwide is reported in this issue. From the perspective of Biomimetics, it is interesting to note that the SPIE’s Conference on Biomimetics has continued to grow in terms of the number of p...

Artificial Muscles Based on Electroactive Polymers

Electroactive Polymers as Artificial Muscles – Reality and Challenges

For many, the idea of a human with bionic muscles immediately conjures up images of science fiction -a superhuman character in a TV series. With bionic muscles, the hero is portrayed with strength and speed far superior to any normal human. As fantastic as that idea may seem, recent developments in electroactive polymers (EAP) may one day make such bionics possible. New effective EAP materials ...

Ionic electroactive polymer artificial muscles in space applications

A large-scale effort was carried out to test the performance of seven types of ionic electroactive polymer (IEAP) actuators in space-hazardous environmental factors in laboratory conditions. The results substantiate that the IEAP materials are tolerant to long-term freezing and vacuum environments as well as ionizing Gamma-, X-ray, and UV radiation at the levels corresponding to low Earth orbit...

Electroactive Polymers as Artificial Muscles - Capabilities, Potentials and Challenges

For many years, electroactive polymers (EAP) received relatively little attention due to the small number of available materials and their limited actuation capability. The recent emergence of EAP materials with large displacement response changed the paradigm of these materials and their potential capability. The main attractive characteristic of EAP is their operational similarity to biologic...