Sign us up for some! Although the fabrication process looks a bit daunting, we love the results of working with electro-active polymers. These are sheets of plastic that can flex by contracting in ...

This “Pneupard” is actuated entirely by PAMs (Video source). Electroactive Polymers (EAP) Polymer-based artificial muscles save themselves from a lot of the drawbacks of pneumatic artificial ...

Electroactive Polymers Electroactive polymers represent a class of materials capable of reallocating their shape in response to an electric field and can harvest energy in the form of electrical ...

So he began to search for a way to manipulate the foil in a predictable manner, and eventually stumbled across some information on electroactive polymers. Commonly used as an actuator for industrial ...

Dr. Snow is currently head of the Materials Synthesis and Processing Section in the Chemistry Division at NRL His research interests are polymer synthesis, electroactive polymers, low-dielectric ...