The area of artificial muscle is a highly interdisciplinary field of research that has evolved
rapidly in the last 30 years. Recent advances in nanomaterial fabrication and …

An overview of capacitive technologies based on carbon materials (energy storage in
electrical double-layer capacitors (EDLCs), capacitive deionization (CDI), energy harvesting …

This article reviews properties and characteristics of soft ionic polymer–metal
nanocomposites as soft biomimetic multifunctional distributed robotic materials, soft …

We report here the development of an actuator with an ionic electromechanically active
polymer (IEAP) laminate that is exclusively designed to exhibit a combination of high …

In the past decades, ion conductive polymers and elastomers have drawn worldwide
attention for their advanced functions in batteries, electroactive soft robotics, and sensors …

Compared with traditional actuation materials, such as piezoelectric, ferroelectric and
conducting polymer materials which suffered from low flexibility, high driving voltages and …

Ionic polymer–metal composites (IPMCs) have been proposed as biomimetic actuators that
are operable at low applied voltages. However, the bending strain and generating force of …

Ionic polymer-metal composites (IPMCs) have recently received tremendous interest as soft
biomimetic actuators and sensors in various bioengineering and human affinity applications …

We report one-pot synthesis of Fe (III)–polydopamine (PDA) complex nanospheres, their
structures, morphology evolution, and underlying mechanism. The complex nanospheres …

Ionogel electrolytes can be fabricated for electrochemical actuators with many desirable
advantages, including direct low-voltage control in air, high electrochemical and thermal …