Abstract Synthesis of proton-conducting materials based on track-etched membranes from polyvinylidene fluoride and sulfonated cross-linked polystyrene is described. The synthesis has been carried out by filling the pores original or gamma-irradiated membrane copolymerization styrene/divinylbenzene followed sulfonation with chlorosulfonic acid. resulting have studied scanning electron microscopy...

Abstract The contact problem for thermoelectric materials with functionally graded properties is considered. material properties, such as the electric conductivity, thermal shear modulus, and expansion coefficient, vary in an exponential function. Using Fourier transform technique, electro-thermoelastic problems are transformed into three sets of singular integral equations which solved numeric...

Conducting polymers are known to mechanically respond to electrochemical stimuli and have been utilized as linear actuators. To date, the most successful mechanism for actuation is ionic ingress and egress, though mechanisms based on conformational changes and molecular interactions have also been proposed. In the pursuit of new conducting polymer actuators it is necessary to design, synthesize...

Over the past several years, TDA Research, Inc. has been developing solvent processable forms of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) commonly known as "PEDOT". Our approach is to make block copolymers with alternating conducting and non-conducting blocks. The conducting segments provide the electronic properties, while the non-conducting segments are designed to promote dispersion. TDA has two lin...