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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"polymer actuation"”.
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Design, fabrication, and characterization of controllable conducting polymer actuation systems
… muscle and the neuromuscular system consists of actuation elements, length sensors, force sensors, localized energy storage, controlled energy delivery, computational components, and intercommunication pathways. Conducting polymer materials are versatile enough to perform all of the above …
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Actuation of shape memory polymer using magnetic fields for applications in medical devices
A novel approach to the heating and actuation of shape memory polymer using dispersed Curie temperature thermo-regulated particles is proposed. Such a material has potential applications in medical devices which are delivered via catheters. A variety of tests were performed to determine the …
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Development of dielectric elastomer actuators for MRI devices
… (DE) actuators are an emerging class of polymer actuation devices. They exhibit large strains and have high force and energy densities. They can be designed in a variety of geometries and are inexpensive to manufacture. Currently, the use of DE Actuation is limited because quantitative …
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Three-dimensional polymeric capillary network: fabrication and applications
… and moving parts using partially crosslinked polymer as sacrificial supports. This was realized on a projection microstereolithography (PμSL) which produced both the micro structure and the sacrificial part simultaneously using digital grayscale images. To establish the selectivity of the …