PMID- 24338697
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20141006
LR  - 20200930
IS  - 1521-4095 (Electronic)
IS  - 0935-9648 (Linking)
VI  - 26
IP  - 7
DP  - 2014 Feb
TI  - Carbon nanotube and graphene-based bioinspired electrochemical actuators.
PG  - 1025-43
LID - 10.1002/adma.201303432 [doi]
AB  - Bio-inspired actuation materials, also called artificial muscles, have attracted 
      great attention in recent decades for their potential application in intelligent 
      robots, biomedical devices, and micro-electro-mechanical systems. Among them, 
      ionic polymer metal composite (IPMC) actuator has been intensively studied for 
      their impressive high-strain under low voltage stimulation and air-working 
      capability. A typical IPMC actuator is composed of one ion-conductive electrolyte 
      membrane laminated by two electron-conductive metal electrode membranes, which 
      can bend back and forth due to the electrode expansion and contraction induced by 
      ion motion under alternating applied voltage. As its actuation performance is 
      mainly dominated by electrochemical and electromechanical process of the 
      electrode layer, the electrode material and structure become to be more crucial 
      to higher performance. The recent discovery of one dimensional carbon nanotube 
      and two dimensional graphene has created a revolution in functional 
      nanomaterials. Their unique structures render them intriguing electrical and 
      mechanical properties, which makes them ideal flexible electrode materials for 
      IPMC actuators in stead of conventional metal electrodes. Currently although the 
      detailed effect caused by those carbon nanomaterial electrodes is not very clear, 
      the presented outstanding actuation performance gives us tremendous motivation to 
      meet the challenge in understanding the mechanism and thus developing more 
      advanced actuator materials. Therefore, in this review IPMC actuators prepared 
      with different kinds of carbon nanomaterials based electrodes or electrolytes are 
      addressed. Key parameters which may generate important influence on actuation 
      process are discussed in order to shed light on possible future research and 
      application of the novel carbon nanomateials based bio-inspired electrochemical 
      actuators.
CI  - (c) 2013 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
FAU - Kong, Lirong
AU  - Kong L
AD  - i-Lab, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of 
      Sciences, Suzhou, 215123, P. R. China.
FAU - Chen, Wei
AU  - Chen W
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PT  - Review
DEP - 20131212
PL  - Germany
TA  - Adv Mater
JT  - Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
JID - 9885358
RN  - 0 (Electrolytes)
RN  - 0 (Metals)
RN  - 0 (Nanotubes, Carbon)
RN  - 0 (Polymers)
RN  - 7782-42-5 (Graphite)
SB  - IM
MH  - *Electrochemical Techniques
MH  - Electrodes
MH  - Electrolytes/chemistry
MH  - Graphite/*chemistry
MH  - Metal Nanoparticles/chemistry
MH  - Metals/chemistry
MH  - Nanotubes, Carbon/*chemistry
MH  - Polymers/chemistry
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - air-working
OT  - carbon nanotube
OT  - electromechanical
OT  - graphene
OT  - ionic actuator
EDAT- 2013/12/18 06:00
MHDA- 2014/10/07 06:00
CRDT- 2013/12/17 06:00
PHST- 2013/07/24 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2013/09/09 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2013/12/17 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2013/12/18 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2014/10/07 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1002/adma.201303432 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Adv Mater. 2014 Feb;26(7):1025-43. doi: 10.1002/adma.201303432. Epub 2013 Dec 12.