Electroactive polymers (EAPs) respond to electrical stimulation with large deformations. They are dynamic actuators which have attracted attention from an interdisciplinary audience of engineers and ...

Dublin, Jan. 19, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Electroactive Polymer Market - Global Industry Size, Share, Trends, Opportunity, and Forecast, 2018-2028 Segmented By Type (Conductive Plastics, ...

IDTechEx Research finds that the electroactive polymer (EAP) market will be US$245 million in 2013. EAP materials have been used for some time in actuators, capacitors and nanocomposites but, with new ...

Electroactive polymers, characterised by their ability to alter physical and electronic properties under an applied electrical stimulus, have emerged as promising candidates for energy storage, ...

Electroactive polymer actuators represent a rapidly evolving field in materials science, where electrically induced deformations in polymers are harnessed to produce controlled mechanical motion.

In the Artificial Muscle Research Institute at the University of New Mexico, electricity is in the air. When lab director Mohsen Shahinpoor applies a voltage to an artificial “hand” made of a ...

Ras Labs, LLC, developers of contractile electroactive polymers (EAPs), today announced that its Synthetic Muscle™ polymers have returned to Earth after a year of extensive radiation exposure on the ...

IT IS difficult to imagine a world without electric motors. They are everywhere: spinning discs inside DVD players, powering washing machines and fans, keeping trains and escalators moving, starting ...

Machine systems are the drivers of manufacturing, industries, and everyday devices. These system drive our economy, but can also be the source of safety issues. No matter how complex, machine systems ...

Polymer dielectrics having high dielectric constant, high temperature capability, and low loss are attractive for a broad range of applications such as film capacitors, gate dielectrics, artificial ...