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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Electroactive materials"”.
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Electrospinning as a Processing Method for Electroactive Polymers and Composites
… examined for its potential to create functional materials. Three distinct electroactive materials were electrospun into fibers and fiber mats and then characterized with the intent of determining their utility in aerospace and biomedical applications such as micro-air vehicles and the …
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Nanostructured electroactive polymeric composites for energy storage and separation applications
Electroactive polymeric materials have garnered considerable interest due to their potential applications in advancing electrochemical energy storage, sensing, catalysis, and separations systems. Electroactive polymers include conducting polymers with a-conjugated backbones and redox polymers with …
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Large displacement fast conducting polymer actuators
Conducting polymers are a promising class of electroactive materials that undergo volumetric changes under applied potentials, which make them particularly useful for many actuation applications. Polypyrrole , is one of the most common conducting polymers of choice for the development of actuator …
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Homogenization Methods for Problems with Multiphysics, Temporal and Spatial Coupling
There are many natural and man-made materials with heterogeneous micro- or nanostructure (fine-scale structure) which represent a great interest for industry. Therefore there is a great demand for computational methods capable to model mechanical behavior of such materials. Direct numerical …
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Towards the development of calcium ion batteries
A novel system for the study of calcium-ion electroactive materials has been developed, characterized, and utilized to screen a number of candidate calcium intercalation compounds. The system is comprised of a dried, pre-electrolyzed calcium perchlorate salt in acetonitrile solvent electrolyte …
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Electromechanical Characterization of Poly(Dimethyl Siloxane) Based Electroactive Polymers
… properties of the resulting CN-PDMS blend as an electroactive actuator. Materials responding to an external stimulus are referred to as electroactive materials. There are several phenomena, which govern the mechanism in these materials, such as piezoelectricity, Maxwell's effect, …
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Supercapacitor electrode materials based on nanostructured conducting polymers and metal oxides
… and the surface areas of their electrode materials. Therefore, current research in the field of supercapacitors has been carried out with increased emphasis on the development of new electrode materials. Optimal novel synthesis of electrode materials for supercapacitor application in …
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Water-Soluble Redox Materials and Their Applications in Aqueous Batteries
… battery systems by exploring the existing electroactive materials in the new systems and by exploring new redox-active materials for achieving the high-performance aqueous batteries. Specifically, in the first project, hydrophilic tannic acid modified WS2 nanosheets are developed as …
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Dielectric elastomer composites: analytical and numerical non-convex homogenization methods and applications
… dielectric behavior of this class of soft electroactive materials directly in terms of their microscopic behavior. The macroscopic behavior of dielectric elastomer composites is first investigated within the classical asymptotic context of small deformations and moderate electric fields. …
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Anisotropic Morphologies and Properties in Perfluorosulfonate Ionomer-Based Materials
… in perfluorosulfonate ionomers (PFSIs)-related materials. The project can be broken into two primary foci. First, we explored the current state of understanding related to morphology-property relationships in PFSIs with specific attention to the nano-scale organization of the ionic and …
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Bucky gel actuator for morphing applications
… novel applications for electro-active morphing materials. Three-layered bimorph nanocomposite has become an excellent candidate for morphing applications since it can be easily fabricated, operated in air, and driven with few volts. There has been limited published study on the mechanical …
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Some simple explicit results for the elastic dielectric properties and stability of layered composites
A string of partial results — aimed at shedding light on the behavior of dielectric elastomer composites — have been recently reported in the literature for the macroscopic electroelastic response and stability of layered composites with ideal elastic dielectric phases. Such results have been …