Review on improvement, modeling, and application of ionic polymer metal composite artificial muscle

Q He, G Yin, D Vokoun, Q Shen, J Lu, X Liu… - Journal of Bionic …, 2022 - Springer
Recently, researchers have concentrated on studying ionic polymer metal composite (IPMC)
artificial muscle, which has numerous advantages including a relatively large strain under …

Review on the use of impedance spectroscopy for IPMC-like devices: application, models, and a new approach to data treatment

R Gonçalves, KA Tozzi, MC Saccardo… - Materials …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Although efforts to model the electrochemical behavior of ionomeric polymer-metal
composite (IPMC) devices through electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) have …

Mechanics and electrochemistry of ionic polymer metal composites

Y Cha, M Porfiri - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2014 - Elsevier
Ionic polymer metal composites (IPMCs) are electroactive materials composed of a hydrated
ionomeric membrane that is sandwiched between noble metal electrodes. Here, we propose …

On Maxwell stress and its relationship with the dielectric constant in the actuation of ionic polymer metal composites

A Boldini, M Porfiri - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2022 - Elsevier
Ionic polymer metal composites (IPMCs) are unique electroactive polymers that show
promise as actuators in soft robotics and biomedical applications. The modeling and …

Encapsulation of ionic polymer-metal composite (IPMC) sensors with thick parylene: Fabrication process and characterization results

H Lei, W Li, X Tan - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2014 - Elsevier
Ionic polymer-metal composites (IPMCs) tend to have inconsistent sensing properties when
operating in air under different humidity levels, or after exposure to different ambient media …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling back-relaxation in ionic polymer metal composites: The role of steric effects and composite layers

M Porfiri, H Sharghi, P Zhang - Journal of Applied Physics, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Ionic polymer metal composites (IPMCs) are a new class of active materials that are gaining
traction as soft actuators in medical and industrial applications. IPMCs can undergo large …

Printing single-walled carbon nanotube/Nafion composites by direct writing techniques

B Luo, H Chen, Z Zhu, B Xie, C Bian, Y Wang - Materials & Design, 2018 - Elsevier
Preparation of inks with proper rheological performance is the key for extrusion-based direct
writing. Nafion solutions with tailored rheological properties have been developed for direct …

A hyperelastic porous media framework for ionic polymer-metal composite actuators and sensors: thermodynamically consistent formulation and …

ZJ Olsen, KJ Kim - Smart Materials and Structures, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Ionic polymer-metal composites (IPMCs) are smart materials that exhibit large deformation in
response to small applied voltages, and conversely generate detectable electrical signals in …

An alternative explanation of back-relaxation in ionic polymer metal composites

M Porfiri, A Leronni, L Bardella - Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2017 - Elsevier
The phenomenon of back-relaxation in ionic polymer metal composites (IPMCs) has
attracted the interest of the scientific community for two decades, but its physical origins …

Electrochemo-poromechanics of ionic polymer metal composites: identification of the model parameters

L Bardella, A Panteghini - Smart Materials and Structures, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We propose a procedure to identify the parameters of a model for the multiphysics response
of ionic polymer metal composites (IPMCs). Aiming at computational efficiency and …