ISSN:
1013-9826
Source:
Scientific.Net: Materials Science & Technology / Trans Tech Publications Archiv 1984-2008
Topics:
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
Notes:
The ionic-polymer-metal-composite actuators can easily actualize the bio-mimeticfish-like locomotion owing to their best merit for large deformation. And novel fabrication methodsof IPMC patterned with multiple electrodes were developed to apply the different driving waves tothe multiple electrodes. Generally, the IPMC actuator has been fabricated in electroless platingtechnique, while it is high time-consuming process, showing poor repeatability in the actuationperformance due to the variables in the process of fabrication. Therefore the several fabricatingmethods was newly investigated by combining electroless plating, photolithography, physicalsputtering and electroplating techniques capable of precisely patterning and actuating of the multipleelectrodes. On the whole, four different methods were compared and analyzed in similar thicknesslevel of Platinum electrodes. Consequently, the mixing the electroless chemical reduction andelectroplating can be a promising candidate for the low time-consuming method and the betterbending performance
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://www.tib-hannover.de/fulltexts/2011/0528/01/53/transtech_doi~10.4028%252Fwww.scientific.net%252FKEM.334-335.1005.pdf
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