Electroactive polymer (EAP) actuators as artificial muscles : reality, potential, and challenges

• Other Authors: Bar-Cohen, Yoseph
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bellingham, Wash. : SPIE Press, ©2004.
• Edition: 2nd ed.
• Series: SPIE monograph ; PM136.
• Subjects: Polymers in medicine.; Conducting polymers.; Muscles.; Biophysics.; Musculoskeletal system.; Physiology.; Surgical instruments and apparatus.; Polymers.; Electrophysiology.; Life sciences.; Anatomy.; Manufactures.; Physical sciences.; Artificial organs.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781615837236; 161583723X; 9780819481122; 0819481122; 9780819452979; 0819452971
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 765 pages) : illustrations.

In concept and execution, this book covers the field of EAP with careful attention to all its key aspects and full infrastructure, including the available materials, analytical models, processing techniques, and characterization methods. In this second edition the reader is brought current on promis...