2nd Edition

Artificial Muscles Applications of Advanced Polymeric Nanocomposites

By Mohsen Shahinpoor Copyright 2022
408 Pages 444 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

408 Pages 444 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

408 Pages 444 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

Smart materials are the way of the future in a variety of fields, from biomedical engineering and chemistry to nanoscience, nanotechnology, and robotics. Featuring an interdisciplinary approach to smart materials and structures, this second edition of Artificial Muscles: Applications of Advanced Polymeric Nanocomposite s has been fully updated to thoroughly review the latest knowledge of ionic... Read more

Chapter 1 Introduction to Ionic Polymers, Ionic Gels and Stimuli-Responsive Materials and Artificial Muscles

Chapter 2 Fundamentals of Ionic Polymer-Metal Composites (IPMCs) and Nanocomposites (IPMNCs)

Chapter 3 Ionic Polymer-Metal Nanocomposites: (IPMCs and IPMNCs) Manufacturing Techniques

Chapter 4 Ionic Polyacrylonitrile (PAN) Fibrous Artificial Muscles/Nanomuscles

Chapter 5 PAMPS Ionic Polymeric Artificial Muscles

Chapter 6 Modeling and Simulation of IPMCs as Distributed Soft Biomimetic Nanosensors, Nanoactuators, Nanotransducers and Artificial Muscles

Chapter 7 Sensing, Transduction, Feedback Control and Robotic Applications of Polymeric Artificial Muscles

Chapter 8 Conductive or Ion-Conjugated Polymers as Artificial Muscles

Chapter 9 Engineering, Industrial and Medical Applications of Ionic Polymer–Metal Nanocomposites

Chapter 10 Epilogue and Conclusions

Biography

Mohsen Shahinpoor is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maine and a leading expert in artificial muscles.