• 대한전기학회논문지:전기물성ㆍ응용부문C
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• 제51권3호
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• pp.125-133
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• 2002

In order to fabricate stable conductive polymer actuators which can be operated in air, conductivity and solidity of polymer electrolyte materials have been studied. It was found that Nafion+LiCl is appropriate material to be used for conductive polymer actuator. Using the Nafion+LiCl solid polymer electrolyte, single layer PPy actuators have been fabricated and their deflection was measured. Double layer PPy actuators make up for shortcoming of single layer PPy actuator and displacement and frequency response can be improved by fabrication of double layer PPy actuator. This kind of all-solid-polymer actuator can be used for practical applications.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전기물성ㆍ응용부문C
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• 제49권12호
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• pp.698-704
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• 2000

Mechanical performances of beam shaped and bridge-shaped conductive polymer actuator have been measured and analyzed varying polymerization conditions and operating conditions such as applied current, polymerizing time, frequency of the current and kinds of electrolytes. For the application of conductive polymer actuator to micropump, the diaphragm structure has been fabricated, which is composed of polypyrrole, solid polymer electrolyte and parylene. Measured results how the possibility of the practical application of conductive polymer actuator.

• 한국복합재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국복합재료학회 2004년도 추계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.9-14
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• 2004

An approximate relationship of the strain and applied potential was derived for SWNTs and conductive polymer composite actuator. During the deriving process, we used an electrochemical system to model the electromechanical actuation of the composite film. This relationship can give us a direct understanding to the actuation of a nanoactuator

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2004년도 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.275-278
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• 2004

Electro-Active Paper (EAPap) is attractive for EAP actuator due to its merit in terms of light weight, dry condition, large displacement output, low actuation voltage and low power consumption. The EAPap is based on cellulose paper, and is shown to involve primarily transport of ions in response to an external electric field. This actuating mechanism is similar to conductive polymer based actuators. For performance improvement of EAPap, hybrid actuators are tried. The actuators based on cellulose paper attached conducting polypyrrole, polyaniline and single wall carbon nanotube/polyaniline(emeraldine base) have been achieved by Electro chemical deposition and mechanical deposition of the polymers onto cellulose paper.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제18권12호
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• pp.1310-1316
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• 2008

Bi-layer and tri-layer structures of electro-active paper(EAPap) using conductive polyaniline(PANI) coating were investigated to improve bending displacement of cellulose EAPap. Two different counter ions, perchlorate($CIO_4^-$) and tetrafluoroborate($BF_4^-$), are used as dopant ions in the PANI processing. The actuation performances of hi-layer and tri-layer structure are evaluated in terms of tip displacement, blocked force, strain energy density and power output density. The actuation performance of the tri-layer actuator was better than the hi-layer structure, and the maximum displacement and blocked force of tri-layer $CIO_4^-$ doped-PANI-EAPap were 13.2 mm and 0.15 mN, respectively. Also the power output of the actuator is similar to the required power of biological muscle application.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.180-187
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• 2005

This paper is focused on the development of the flexible electrode for disc-type polymer actuators using Segmented Polyurethane(SPU). This paper consists of two parts. The one is about the mechanical property such as elastic modulus. these parameters mainly affect behaviors of polymer actuators and the other is about the electro-chemical property such as the surface resistance of the composite electrode affects the strength of electrostatic force, results in the deformation of polymer actuators. The Young's modulus was measured by UTM. As result, by increasing the modulus of a body of polymer actuators, the maximum displacement of polymer actuators are decreased. The surface resistance of the electrode was measured by 4 point probe system. Compared with the conductive silver grease, the displacement of polymer actuators using carbon black(CB) composite electrodes is comparably small but CB composite electrode should be the practical approach for the improvement of the performance of all-solid actuators, compared with another types of electrode materials.

• 한국복합재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국복합재료학회 2005년도 추계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.117-120
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• 2005

The relationship between strain and applied potential was derived for composite actuators consisting single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) and conductive polymers (CPs). During deriving the relationship, an electrochemical ionic approach is utilized to formulate the electromechanical actuation of the composite film actuator. The results show that the well-aligned SWNTs composite actuator can give good actuation responses and high actuating forces available. The actuation is found to be affected by both SWNTs and CPs components and the actuation of SWNTs component has two kinds of influences on that of the CPs component: reinforcement at the positive voltage and abatement at the negative voltage. CNT/EAP was fabricated successfully using the chemical polymerization method.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2001년도 하계학술대회 논문집 C
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• pp.1878-1880
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• 2001

In order to fabricate the stable conductive polymer actuators which are operated in air. Nafion with mixture of LiCl has been used as solid polymer electrolyte material. Based on these materials, beam type and sandwich type actuators have been fabricated and mechanical properties are measured. This kind of all-solid-polymer actuator can be used for practical applications.

• 센서학회지
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• 제7권6호
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• pp.446-451
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• 1998

전도성 고분자는 전기적 에너지를 기계적 에너지로 직접 전환할 수 있는 물질로서 액츄에이터 물질로 사용될 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 다양한 합성조건에서 합성한 폴리피롤의 두께를 측정하고 여러 두께의 고분자 필름의 기계적 벤딩을 측정하고 해석하였다. 기계적 벤딩의 측정을 위해 bridge 형태의 시편으로 bending beam method를 사용하였다. 폴리피롤의 두께는 합성시간에 선형적으로 비례하며 전류밀도에도 비교적 큰 전류밀도를 제외하고는 선형적으로 증가하였다. 가장 큰 변위는 $5.4{\mu}A/mm^2$, 120분에서 합성된 $18.35{\mu}m$ 두께의 필름이 0.1Hz의 주파수에서 나타났다.

• 공업화학
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.527-532
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• 2005

이온성고분자-금속복합체(Ionic Polymer Metal Composites, IPMC)는 전기활성 고분자이며, 낮은 구동전압에서도 큰 변위를 나타내는 유연한 스마트 소재(soft smart material)이다. 이온성고분자-금속복합체의 표면전극 제조는 일반적으로 화학적 환원방법(무전해 전기도금)에 의해 제조되고 있지만, 이러한 방법에서는 그 재료가 다공성 고분자 막으로 표면이 균일한 전극을 제조하기에 어려움이 있다. 본 연구에서는 전극의 표면 저항을 감소시켜 응답속도를 증가시킴과 동시에 낮은 전압에서 큰 변위를 낼 수 있는 IPMC 제조방법을 고안하여 수행하였다. 화학적 환원방법으로 이온고분자-금속 복합체를 형성시킨 후, 이온빔보조증착법(Ion Beam Assisted Deposition)으로 균질한 표면 전극 층을 형성시켜 화학적 특성을 개선하여 전기적 자극에 의한 구동반응 속도를 향상시킬 수 있는 구동체 제조방법을 제안하였다.