TY - GEN
T1 - A novel fabrication of Ionic Polymer-Metal Composites (IPMC) actuator with silver nano-powders
AU - Chung, C. K.
AU - Hong, Y. Z.
AU - Fung, P. K.
AU - Ju, M. S.
AU - Lin, C. C.K.
AU - Wu, T. C.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is partially sponsored by National Science Council under contract no. NSC 93-2212-E-006-027 and Industrial Technology Research Institute under contract no. A331XS2X40. We also thank the Center for Micro/Nano Science and Technology (CMNST) in National Cheng Kung University, for the process equipment support.
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - This article reports a novel approach of applying silver nano-powders to the fabrication of ionic polymer-metal composites (IPMC) actuator with good adhesion between the electrodes and membrane without surface roughening pretreatment at low cost, high repeatability and short process time. Micro-fabrication technologies are used for this IPMC actuator fabrication including the dissolving and casting silver nano-particles (35 nm) in Nafion diluted solution followed embossing, nontoxic electroless plating of silver, and micro-electroforming of nickel. This IPMC actuator exhibits large deformation of bending curvature angle more than 90° at lower driving voltage of 3 V. The electronic active polymer, IPMC, could be potentially used as the actuator of the active guide-wire, effective biomimetic sensor and artificial muscles.
AB - This article reports a novel approach of applying silver nano-powders to the fabrication of ionic polymer-metal composites (IPMC) actuator with good adhesion between the electrodes and membrane without surface roughening pretreatment at low cost, high repeatability and short process time. Micro-fabrication technologies are used for this IPMC actuator fabrication including the dissolving and casting silver nano-particles (35 nm) in Nafion diluted solution followed embossing, nontoxic electroless plating of silver, and micro-electroforming of nickel. This IPMC actuator exhibits large deformation of bending curvature angle more than 90° at lower driving voltage of 3 V. The electronic active polymer, IPMC, could be potentially used as the actuator of the active guide-wire, effective biomimetic sensor and artificial muscles.
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U2 - 10.1109/SENSOR.2005.1496397
DO - 10.1109/SENSOR.2005.1496397
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:27544446895
SN - 0780389948
SN - 9780780389946
T3 - Digest of Technical Papers - International Conference on Solid State Sensors and Actuators and Microsystems, TRANSDUCERS '05
SP - 217
EP - 220
BT - TRANSDUCERS '05 - 13th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors and Actuators and Microsystems - Digest of Technical Papers
T2 - 13th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors and Actuators and Microsystems, TRANSDUCERS '05
Y2 - 5 June 2005 through 9 June 2005
ER -