written on January 21st, 2010 at 2:49 pm by kirsty
I just had a delivery of some Electroactive Polymer (EAP) to experiment with. EAP
changes shape when voltage is applied, making it a great material for actuators or sensors.
I found a great reference which lists fabrication recipes for making your own EAP. Some of the contributions include -
Ion-exchange Polymer Metal matrix Composite (IPMC)
Freeform Fabrication of Polyacrylamide and Polyacrylic acid cross-linked gels
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1 year ago
Dear Kristy
I’m a manufacturing engineer and I don’t have any useful knowledge in polymers. Have you tried to use the proposed methods?
Thank you for nice links.
Best wishes
11 months ago
Dear Kirsty
I am a textile student in london and at the moment, I have been exploring shape memory alloys, shape memory polymers for my project. I also want to explore electroactive polymers but I could not find where to supply them. Would you mind to e-mail me the address or the web site where you ordered the material please? Many thanks
3 weeks ago
Dear Kristy
I am an industrial designer and I also try to find EAP material but I cannot find anywhere else, except how to make it. Could you please tell me the website that you ordered the material? I would really appreciate it. Thank you so much!
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July 1st, 2011 at 2:02 pm
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