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Compliant Silver Nanowire-Polymer Composite Electrodes for Bistable Large Strain Actuation

  1. Sungryul Yun†,
  2. Xiaofan Niu†,
  3. Zhibin Yu,
  4. Weili Hu,
  5. Paul Brochu,
  6. Qibing Pei*

Article first published online: 3 FEB 2012

DOI: 10.1002/adma.201104101

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Advanced Materials

Advanced Materials

Volume 24, Issue 10, pages 1321–1327, March 8, 2012

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Yun, S., Niu, X., Yu, Z., Hu, W., Brochu, P. and Pei, Q. (2012), Compliant Silver Nanowire-Polymer Composite Electrodes for Bistable Large Strain Actuation. Adv. Mater., 24: 1321–1327. doi: 10.1002/adma.201104101

Author Information

  1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA

  1. †

    S. Y. and X. N. contributed equally to this work.

*Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 6 MAR 2012
  2. Article first published online: 3 FEB 2012
  3. Manuscript Revised: 8 DEC 2011
  4. Manuscript Received: 26 OCT 2011

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A new compliant electrode-based on silver nanowire-polymer composite has been developed. The composite electrode has low sheet resistance (as low as 10 Ω/sq), remains conductive (102–103 Ω/sq) at strains as high as 140%, and can support Joule heating. The combination of the composite and a bistable electroactive polymer produces electrically-induced, large-strain actuation and relaxation, reversibly without the need of mechanical programming.

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