title: Electro-active Polymer Actuator Based on Sulfonated Polyimide with Highly Conductive Silver Electrodes Via Self-metallization.
abstract: We report here a facile synthesis of high performance electro-active polymer actuator based on a sulfonated polyimide with well-defined silver electrodes via self-metallization. The proposed method greatly reduces fabrication time and cost, and obviates a cation exchange process required in the fabrication of ionic polymer-metal composite actuators. Also, the self-metallized silver electrodes exhibit outstanding metal-polymer adhesion with high conductivity, resulting in substantially larger tip displacements compared with Nafion-based actuators.
authors.affiliation: School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Systems Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Jiangxuan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Song
authors.affiliation: School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Systems Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Jin-Han
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Jeon
authors.affiliation: School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Systems Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea. ikoh@kaist.ac.kr.
authors.forename: Il-Kwon
authors.initials: IK
authors.lastname: Oh
authors.affiliation: Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado, Campus Box 429, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.
authors.forename: K C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Park
mesh_terms: D055664:Electrochemical Techniques; D004566:Electrodes; D012117:Resins, Synthetic / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry; D012834:Silver / Q000737:chemistry*; D013451:Sulfonic Acids / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D012117:Resins, Synthetic; D013451:Sulfonic Acids; C029945:polyimide resin; D012834:Silver