Overview
- Covers all aspects of electromechanically active polymers (EAP) for researchers, practitioners and students
- Shares device configurations, models, applications and operative guidelines for smart materials
- Makes fundamental and practical information on EAP and artificial muscles accessible
- Presents chapters by the most important contributors to the field of EAP
Part of the book series: Polymers and Polymeric Composites: A Reference Series (POPOC)
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Table of contents (34 entries)
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Ionic Polymer–Metal Composites
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Conducting Polymers
Keywords
- Actuators, Mechano-electrical sensors and Energy Harvesters
- Dielectric Elastomers
- Electrically-driven Active Strains or Stresses
- Electronic EAPs
- European Scientific Network for Artificial Muscles ESNAM
- Handbook of Artificial Muscles
- Introduction to Electroactive Polymers
- Ionic EAPs
- Smart Materials for Electromechanical Transduction
- Soft Robotics
About this book
Prepared under the aegisof the ‘European Scientific Network for Artificial Muscles’, the book is the product of extensive collaborative efforts led by European researchers and involving respected experts from around the globe.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr Carpi is the Programme Director of the MSc in Medical Electronics and Physics and he is a member of the Institute of Bioengineering at Queen Mary College.
Further, he is the President of “EuroEAP – European Society for Electromechanically Active Polymer Transducers & Artificial Muscles” (organizing the annual 'EuroEAP’) and he coordinates the 'European Scientific Network for Artificial Muscles - ESNAM, focused on transducers and artificial muscles based on electroactive polymers.
His main research focus is on biomedical & bioinspired mechatronic devices made of soft smart materials.
He is an Editorial Board member of four international journals, and member of the scientific committees of several conferences. His publications include some 60 articles in international journals, 2 edited books and several contributions to books and conferences.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Electromechanically Active Polymers
Book Subtitle: A Concise Reference
Editors: Federico Carpi
Series Title: Polymers and Polymeric Composites: A Reference Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31530-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Reference Module Physical and Materials Science, Reference Module Chemistry, Materials and Physics
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-31528-7Published: 07 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-31530-0Published: 27 August 2016
Series ISSN: 2510-3458
Series E-ISSN: 2510-3466
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 798
Number of Illustrations: 233 b/w illustrations, 200 illustrations in colour
Topics: Optical and Electronic Materials, Polymer Sciences, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Mechatronics, Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics, Materials Engineering