PMID- 30357999
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20190301
LR  - 20190301
IS  - 1521-3927 (Electronic)
IS  - 1022-1336 (Linking)
VI  - 40
IP  - 1
DP  - 2019 Jan
TI  - Advances in Polymeric Materials for Electromechanical Devices.
PG  - e1800521
LID - 10.1002/marc.201800521 [doi]
AB  - Electroactive polymers (EAP) provide lightweight and cost-effective materials 
      that enable the next generation of electromechanical devices. Commercial polymers 
      have historically dominated research in EAP devices due to their availability. 
      However, several drawbacks of these materials have limited their commercial 
      applications, necessitating new materials for the commercial success of future 
      EAP devices. This review highlights recent advances in novel EAPs for ionic 
      polymer-metal composites (IPMC) and dielectric elastomer actuators (DEA). 
      Ion-containing block copolymers and charged segmented condensation polymers 
      demonstrate suitable electromechanical properties competitive with Nafion-based 
      IPMCs. In addition, swelling ionic polymer membranes with free ionic liquid 
      enhances ionic conductivity and promotes electromechanical actuation. Synthetic 
      approaches to increasing permittivity in dielectric elastomers are also explored 
      as a method of producing more efficient DEAs. Incorporating polar functional 
      groups into siloxane and acrylic elastomers through grafting or blending provides 
      high-dielectric elastomers for use in DEAs with low driving voltages.
CI  - (c) 2018 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
FAU - White, B Tyler
AU  - White BT
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-0266-1238
AD  - Department of Chemistry, Macromolecules Innovation Institute, Virginia Tech, 
      Blacksburg, VA, 24061, USA.
FAU - Long, Timothy E
AU  - Long TE
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-9515-5491
AD  - Department of Chemistry, Macromolecules Innovation Institute, Virginia Tech, 
      Blacksburg, VA, 24061, USA.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Review
DEP - 20181024
PL  - Germany
TA  - Macromol Rapid Commun
JT  - Macromolecular rapid communications
JID - 9888239
RN  - 0 (Elastomers)
RN  - 0 (Polymers)
RN  - 0 (Siloxanes)
SB  - IM
MH  - Elastomers/*chemistry
MH  - Electricity
MH  - *Micro-Electrical-Mechanical Systems
MH  - Polymers/*chemistry
MH  - Siloxanes/*chemistry
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - dielectric elastomers
OT  - electroactive actuators
OT  - ionic polymer metal composites
OT  - polymer transducers
EDAT- 2018/10/26 06:00
MHDA- 2019/03/02 06:00
CRDT- 2018/10/26 06:00
PHST- 2018/07/13 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2018/09/19 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2018/10/26 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2019/03/02 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2018/10/26 06:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1002/marc.201800521 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Macromol Rapid Commun. 2019 Jan;40(1):e1800521. doi: 10.1002/marc.201800521. Epub 
      2018 Oct 24.