Cristian C. Rusa, Min Wei, Todd A. Bullions, Xintao Shuai, Tamer Uyar and Alan E. Tonelli* Fiber & Polymer Science Program, North Carolina State University, Campus Box 8301, Raleigh, NC 27695-8301, USA Center For High Performance Manufacturing, ESM, Mail Code: 0219, 219 Norris Hall, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0219, USA Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve Universi...

Introduction Man’s war against dangerous afflictions has led to the development of potent formulations and requires complicated dosage patterns. They require controlled and targeted delivery to maximize therapeutic efficacy and minimize side-effects. Chemotherapy has been recognized as a successful means of arresting cancer, which is the third biggest killer among humans. Cancerous tumors are c...

Some people may be laughing when looking at you reading in your spare time. Some may be admired of you. And some may want be like you who have reading hobby. What about your own feel? Have you felt right? Reading is a need and a hobby at once. This condition is the on that will make you feel that you must read. If you know are looking for the book enPDFd electroactive polymer gel robots modelli...

1 Definition of bioplastics The two main groups of bioplastics are biobased polymers and biodegradable plastics. Biobased polymers are derived from biomass sources, which are not necessarily biodegradable. Biodegradable plastics, on the other hand, can be either made of natural or fossil sources. In 2012, the IUPAC recommended a terminology for biorelated polymers [1, 2]. Two further, special c...

ii I dedicate my thesis to my loving parents who have always stood by my side. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

In last few years, the rate of development and advances in the field of EAP has accelerated significantly and it is increasingly getting closer to the point of finding them used in commercial products. Substantial development has been reported in the understanding of their drive mechanisms and the parameters that control their electro-activation behavior. Further, efforts are being made to deve...

This talk will cover two classes of electroactive polymers under development recent at Penn State. One is the modified poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene) (P(VDF-TrFE)) polymer and the other is the high dielectric constant all-organic composite. Recently, making use of the defect structure modification in P(VDF-TrFE) based polymers, we converted normal ferroelectric P(VDF-TrFE) into rel...

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