Cost-effective fabrication of ionic polymer based artificial muscles for catheter-guidewire maneuvering application

AS Tripathi, BP Chattopadhyay, S Das - Microsystem Technologies, 2019 - Springer
In this paper, we have designed and developed an ionic polymer metal composite (IPMC)-
based artificial muscles by physical vapor deposition based fabrication technique. This …

Microassembly by an IPMC-based flexible 4-bar mechanism

RK Jain, S Majumder, A Dutta - Smart materials and structures, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
A new design for a flexible 4-bar mechanism using ionic polymer metal composite (IPMC) for
micropeg-in-hole assembly is proposed. In such assembly a peg is inserted into a hole by a …

Preparation and experimental investigation of thermo-electro-mechanical behavior of Ag-IPMC actuator

DK Biswal, D Bandopadhya, SK Dwivedy - International Journal of …, 2012 - Springer
Traditional ionic polymer metal composites (IPMCs) composed of Nafion as the base
polymer and mostly precious metal platinum/gold as the surface electrode. The proposed …

A theoretical model for analysis of ionic polymer metal composite sensors in fluid environments

MR Salehi Kolahi, H Moeinkhah - Journal of Computational Applied …, 2020 - jcamech.ut.ac.ir
By the past two decades IPMCs have been intensively studied because of their special
capabilities for actuation and sensing. This paper presents a theoretical physics based …