IEICE Transactions on Electronics
Online ISSN : 1745-1353
Print ISSN : 0916-8524
Special Section on Recent Progress in Organic Molecular Electronics
Toward Long and Strong Electroactive Supercoiled Polymer Artificial Muscles: Fabrication with Constant-Load Springs
Kazuya TADA
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2023 Volume E106.C Issue 6 Pages 232-235

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An electroactive supercoiled polymer artificial muscle, which is made from a conductive sewing thread using self-coiling caused by inserting a twist with a hanged appropriate weight, is 1/4-1/3 of the thread in length. Therefore, it is necessary to move the weight vertically about two or three times as long as the desired electroactive supercoiled polymer artificial muscle, resulting in a large vertical dimension of the fabrication equipment. This study has attempted to solve this problem by using constant-load springs that enable horizontal table-top fabrication equipment. It has been also demonstrated that inserting a twist into the bundled threads results in a strong electroactive supercoiled polymer artificial muscle.

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