Hostname: page-component-84b7d79bbc-4hvwz Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-25T15:03:14.240Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Deformation Behavior of Polymer Gels in Electric Field

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2011

Toshio Kurauchi ,
Tohru Shiga ,
Yoshiharu Hirose  and
Akane Okada
Toshio Kurauchi
Affiliation:
TOYOTA Central Research and Development Laboratories Inc. 41–1, Nagakute, Aichi, 480–11, JAPAN
Tohru Shiga
Affiliation:
TOYOTA Central Research and Development Laboratories Inc. 41–1, Nagakute, Aichi, 480–11, JAPAN
Yoshiharu Hirose
Affiliation:
TOYOTA Central Research and Development Laboratories Inc. 41–1, Nagakute, Aichi, 480–11, JAPAN
Akane Okada
Affiliation:
TOYOTA Central Research and Development Laboratories Inc. 41–1, Nagakute, Aichi, 480–11, JAPAN
Get access

Abstract

The deformation of poly(acrylic acid)—co—(acrylamide) gels and poly(vinyl alcohol)—poly(acrylic acid) gels under an electric field was investigated. Bending of these ionic gels was induced by an electic field. Using this deformation, we constructed a prototype of a robot hand having soft fingers, and an artificial fish able to swim.

Type
Research Article
Information
MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 171: Symposium O – Polymer Based Molecular Composites , 1989 , 389
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1990

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

1. Shiga, T. and Kurauchi, T., Japanese Polymer Preprints, 36, 2894 (1987).Google Scholar
2. Tanaka, T., Science 218, 467 (1982).Google Scholar
3. Flory, P.J., Principles of Polymer Chemistry, (Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca, 1953).Google Scholar
4. Ohmine, I. and Tanaka, T., J. Chem. Phys., 77, 5725 (1982).Google Scholar