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CPP: Fachverband Chemische Physik und Polymerphysik

CPP 48: P13: Charged Soft Matter

CPP 48.3: Poster

Wednesday, March 18, 2015, 10:00–13:00, Poster A

Developing simultaneous actuating and self-sensing technique for IPMC — •parisa bakhtiarpour, othmar marti, and masoud amirkhani — Institute of experimental physics, Ulm university, Germany

Electroactive polymer (EAP) is a class of material, which deforms under electrical stimulation. Ionic polymer metal composite (IPMC) is a type that can function in the both wet and dry mediums. IPMC is a perfluorinated sulfonic ionic polymer membrane sandwiched between two metallic electrodes and containing mobile cations and fixed anion. Application of IPMC as a smart material in soft robotic is an emerging and cutting-edge technology with a great potential to benefit aerospace, medical and automotive industry. However, a smart system requires a self-sensing mechanism, which allows interacting with environment and responding correspondingly. In this poster, we present a new simultaneous actuating and sensing technique, which is based on the resistance properties of IMPC across the sample.