Artificial Muscles: Applications of Advanced Polymeric Nanocomposites

Mohsen Shahinpoor

CRC Press, Dec 30, 2021 - Technology & Engineering - 408 pages

Smart materials are the way of the future in a variety of fields, from biomedical engineering and chemistry to nanoscience, nanotechnology, and robotics. Featuring an interdisciplinary approach to smart materials and structures, this second edition of Artificial Muscles: Applications of Advanced Polymeric Nanocomposites has been fully updated to thoroughly review the latest knowledge of ionic polymeric conductor nanocomposites (IPCNCs), including ionic polymeric metal nanocomposites (IPMNCs) as biomimetic distributed nanosensors, nanoactuators, nanotransducers, nanorobots, artificial muscles, and electrically controllable intelligent polymeric network structures.

Authored by one of the founding fathers of the field, the book introduces fabrication and manufacturing methods of several electrically and chemically active ionic polymeric sensors, actuators, and artificial muscles, as well as a new class of electrically active polymeric nanocomposites and artificial muscles. It also describes a few apparatuses for modeling and testing various artificial muscles to show the viability of chemoactive and electroactive muscles. It presents the theories, modeling, and numerical simulations of ionic polymeric artificial muscles’ electrodynamics and chemodynamics and features current industrial and medical applications of IPMNCs.

By covering the fabrication techniques of and novel developments in advanced polymeric nanocomposites, this second edition continues to provides an accessible yet solid foundation to the subject while stimulating further research.

Key features:

• Fully up to date with the latest cutting-edge discoveries in the field
• Authored by a world expert in the subject area
• Explores the exciting and growing topic of smart materials in medicine

Mohsen Shahinpoor is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maine and a leading expert in artificial muscles.

Contents

• Fundamentals of Ionic PolymerMetal Composites IPMCs: xvi
• IPMCs and IPMNCs: 2-49
• ESHPA: 3-9
• Ionic Polyacrylonitrile PAN Fibrous Artificial: 3-67
• Bundle Muscles: 4-130
• PAMPS Ionic Polymeric Artificial Muscles: 4-141
• Modeling and Simulation of IPMCs as Distributed Soft Biomimetic: 4-158
• Ionic Gels: 6-21
• Sensing Transduction Feedback Control and Robotic: 6-42
• Sensors: 9-7
• Conductive or IonConjugated Polymers as Artificial Muscles: 9-22
• Epilogue and Conclusions: 9-54
• Engineering Industrial and Medical Applications of Ionic: 9-75
• Optical Lenses: 5

About the author

Mohsen Shahinpoor is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maine and a leading expert in artificial muscles.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Artificial Muscles: Applications of Advanced Polymeric Nanocomposites
• Author: Mohsen Shahinpoor
• Edition: 2, illustrated
• Publisher: CRC Press, 2021
• ISBN: 1000473384, 9781000473384
• Length: 408 pages
• Subjects: Medical / Rheumatology; Science / Life Sciences / Biophysics; Technology & Engineering / Biomedical; Technology & Engineering / Materials Science / General; Technology & Engineering / Nanotechnology & MEMS; Technology & Engineering / Robotics; Technology & Engineering / Textiles & Polymers