Overview
- Facilitates quick learning with the inclusion of the newest technology and information on basic science and practical applications of soft actuators
- Makes generous use of color figures, diagrams, and photographs to provide full descriptions of the mechanism, apparatus, and motion of soft actuators
- Inspires readers with new ideas and encourages their research and development, opening up a new field of applications for the utilization and industrialization of soft actuators
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Table of contents (41 chapters)
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Materials of Soft Actuators: Thermo-Driven Soft Actuators
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Materials of Soft Actuators: Electro-Driven Soft Actuators
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Kinji Asaka received his Ph.D. degree in Science from Kyoto University in 1990. He is currently a Group Leader of Hybrid Actuator Group, Inorganic Functional Material Research Institute at AIST. His current research interests include interfacial electrochemistry and polymer actuators. He is a member of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan and the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers.
Hidenori Okuzaki received his Ph.D. degree in Science from Hokkaido University in 1994. Since 1994, he has been working on organic electronics using conductive polymers as an assistant professor of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Yamanashi. He has been an associate professor in 2003 and he has dealt with conducting micro- and nano-fibers, and organic field-effect transistors. Since 2014, he has been a professor of the Graduate Faculty of Interdisciplinary Research, University of Yamanashi and he has been focusing on the synthesis of highly conductive polymers andapplications to soft sensors and actuators for organic robotics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Soft Actuators
Book Subtitle: Materials, Modeling, Applications, and Future Perspectives
Editors: Kinji Asaka, Hidenori Okuzaki
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6850-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-6849-3Published: 09 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-6852-3Published: 09 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-6850-9Published: 28 August 2019
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: X, 740
Number of Illustrations: 220 b/w illustrations, 275 illustrations in colour
Topics: Polymer Sciences, Biomaterials, Robotics and Automation, Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation