Artificial Muscles

Using an interdisciplinary approach to smart materials and structures, this book explores the powerful new technology of electroactive polymeric nanosensors, nanoactuators, and artificial muscles. It highlights the experimental results of their properties and characteristics and describes several apparatuses for modeling and testing various artificial muscles. It also presents the theories, modeling, and numerical simulations of ionic polymeric artificial muscles' electrodynamics and chemodynamics, and feature current industrial and medical applications of IPMNCs. The book contains a CD-ROM with color images, muscle systems in action, and a presentation on state-of-the-art research.