Electroactive Carbon Nanotube Actuators: Soft-Lithographic Fabrication and Electro-chemical Modelling
2008
Abstract Carbon nanotube (NT) actuators were fabricated using the micromolding method. In order to prevent the nanotubes from aggregating, they were enclosed in a partially cross-linked polyvinylalcohol–polyallylamine matrix. A unimorph matrix bender in the form of a small multi-layered strip, 5 mm × 15 mm was fabricated. The resulting composite system: NT/PVA, solid polymer electrolyte and metal contact, was characterised using impedance analysis and cyclic voltammetry. Initial measurements on electro-mechanical transduction show a conversion efficiency of 0.2 μm/mV. An electrochemical model of the impedance of the system was then developed, with which the experimental results agree fairly well.
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