Materials Science Forum, Vol.426-4, 2249-2254, 2003
Fabrication and development of electroactive ionic polymer-metal composites and their applications as smart materials
This paper presents a brief description of various techniques and experimental procedures in fabricating Ionic Polymeric-Metal Composites (IPMCs). If fully developed, they can be used as effective biomimetic sensors, actuators and artificial muscles. The performance of those IPMCs manufactured by different fabrication techniques is discussed. For a more detail description of IPMC fabrication techniques, the readers are referred to elsewhere [9, 11, and 31].