Ionic Polymer Metal Composites (IPMCs)

Smart Multi-Functional Materials and Artificial Muscles, Volume 1

Mohsen Shahinpoor

• Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
• Year: 2015
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781782622581
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Chemistry
• Index: Chemistry

Ionic polymer metal composites (IPMCs) can generate a voltage when physically deformed. Conversely, an applied small voltage or electrical field can induce an array of spectacular large deformation or actuation behaviours in IPMCs, such as bending, twisting, rolling, twirling, steering and undulating. An important smart material, IPMCs have applications in energy harvesting and as self-powered strain or deformation sensors, they are especially suitable for monitoring the shape of dynamic structures. Other uses include soft actuation applications and as a material for biomimetic robotic soft artificial muscles in industrial and medical contexts. This comprehensive volume on ionic polymer metal composites provides a broad coverage of the state of the art and recent advances in the field written by some of the world's leading experts on various characterizations and modeling of IPMCs. Topics covered in this two volume set include uses in electrochemically active electrodes, electric energy storage devices, soft biomimetic robotics artificial muscles, multiphysics modeling of IPMCs, biomedical applications, IPMCs as dexterous manipulators and tactile sensors for minimally invasive robotic surgery, self-sensing, miniature pumps for drug delivery, IPMC snake-like robots, IPMC microgrippers for microorganisms manipulations, Graphene-based IPMCs and cellulose-based IPMCs or electroactive paper actuators (EAPap). Edited by the leading authority on IMPCs, the broad coverage will appeal to researchers from chemistry, materials, engineering, physics and medical communities interested in both the material and its applications.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Preface
• Chapter 1 Fundamentals of Ionic Polymer Metal Composites (IPMCs)
• Chapter 2 Ionic Polymer Metal Composites(IPMCs) Optimal Manufacturing
• Chapter 3 Graphene-based Ionic Polymer Actuators
• Chapter 4 What Happens at the Ionomer-Electrode Interfaces and How it Influences Sensing and Actuation in Ionic Polymer Metal Composites
• Chapter 5 Modeling Ionic Polymer Metal Composites with COMSOL: Step-by-Step Guide
• Chapter 6 Ionic Polymer Metal Composites with Electrochemically Active Electrodes
• Chapter 7 Electromechanical Distributed Modeling of Ionic Polymer Metal Composites
• Chapter 8 Modeling for Engineering Design of Ionic Polymer Metal Composite Devices: From a Continuum Electromechanical Model to its Lumped-parameter Representation
• Chapter 9 Electric Energy Storage using Ionic Polymer Metal Composites: Towards a Flexible Ionic Polymer Metal Composite Capacitor for Low-power Devices
• Chapter 10 Modeling of Environment-dependent Ionic Polymer Metal Composite Actuation and Sensing Dynamics
• Chapter 11 Precision Feedback and Feedforward Control of Ionic Polymer Metal Composite Actuators
• Chapter 12 Design, Test, and Micromanipulation using an Ionic Polymer Metal Composite Microgripper
• Chapter 13 Phenomenon of Spatially Growing Wave of a Snake-like Robot: Natural Generation of Bio-mimetic Swimming Motion
• Subject Index