Soft actuators [electronic resource] : materials, modeling, applications, and future perspectives / Kinji Asaka, Hidenori Okuzaki, editors.
Asaka, Kinji, editor.; Okuzaki, Hidenori, editor.
2014
TJ223.A25 S64 2014eb
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Title
Soft actuators [electronic resource] : materials, modeling, applications, and future perspectives / Kinji Asaka, Hidenori Okuzaki, editors.
ISBN
9784431547679 electronic book
4431547673 electronic book
9784431547662
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54767-9
Published
Tokyo : Springer, [2014]
Copyright
©2014
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English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations (some color)
Item Number
10.1007/978-4-431-54767-9 doi
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TJ223.A25 S64 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
629.8
Summary
The subject of this book is the current comprehensive research and development of soft actuators, and encompasses interdisciplinary studies of materials science, mechanics, electronics, robotics, and bioscience. As an example, the book includes current research on actuators based on biomaterials to provide future perspectives for artificial muscle technology. Readers can obtain detailed, useful information about materials, methods of synthesis, fabrication, and measurements. The topics covered here not only promote further research and development of soft actuators, but also lead the way to their utilization and industrialization. One outstanding feature of the book is that it contains many color figures, diagrams, and photographs clearly describing the mechanism, apparatus, and motion of soft actuators. The chapter on modeling is conducive to more extensive design work in materials and devices and is especially useful in the development of practical applications. Readers can acquire the newest technology and information about the basic science and practical applications of flexible, lightweight, and noiseless soft actuators, which are quite unlike conventional mechanical engines and electric motors. The new ideas offered in this volume will provide inspiration and encouragement to researchers and developers as they explore new fields of applications for soft actuators.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed December 26, 2014).
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Asaka, Kinji, editor.
Okuzaki, Hidenori, editor.
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Progress and Current Status of Materials and Properties of Soft Actuators
Current Status of Applications and Markets of Soft Actuators
Electromagnetic Heating.-Thermo-Responsive Nanofiber Mats Fabricated by Electrospinning
Self-Oscillating Gels
Ionic Conductive Polymers
Conducting Polymers
Humidity-Sensitive Conducting Polymer Actuators
Carbon Nanotube/Ionic Liquid Composites
Ion Gels for Ionic Polymer Actuators
Ionic Liquid/Polyurethane/PEDOT:PSS Composite Actuators
Dielectric Gels
Dielectric Elastomers
Development of Actuators Using Slide Ring Materials and Their Various Applications
Piezoelectric Polymers
Spiropyran-Functionalized Hydrogel Actuators
Photomechanical Energy Conversion with Cross-linked Liquid-Crystalline Polymers
Photoredox Reaction
Magnetic Fluid Composite Gels
Magnetic Particle Composite Gels
Molecular Mechanism of Electrically Induced Volume Change of Porous Electrodes
Material Modeling
Distributed Parameter System Modeling
Modeling and Feedback Control of Electro-Active Polymer Actuators
Motion Design
A Gel Robot Approach
Motion Control
Application of Nano-Carbon Actuator to Braille Display
Underwater Soft Robots
IPMC Actuator-Based Multifunctional Underwater Microrobots
Medical Applications
Micro Pump Driven by a Pair of Conducting Polymer Soft Actuators
Elastomer Transducers
Tissue Engineering Approach to Making Soft Actuators
ATP-Driven Bio-Machine
Employing Cytoskeletal Treadmilling in Bio-Actuator.

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