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Highly Stable Air Working Bimorph Actuator Based on a Graphene Nanosheet/Carbon Nanotube Hybrid Electrode

  1. Luhua Lu1,
  2. Jinghai Liu1,
  3. Ying Hu1,
  4. Yuewei Zhang1,
  5. Hyacinthe Randriamahazaka2,
  6. Wei Chen1,*

Article first published online: 14 JUN 2012

DOI: 10.1002/adma.201201320

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Advanced Materials

Advanced Materials

Volume 24, Issue 31, pages 4317–4321, August 16, 2012

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Lu, L., Liu, J., Hu, Y., Zhang, Y., Randriamahazaka, H. and Chen, W. (2012), Highly Stable Air Working Bimorph Actuator Based on a Graphene Nanosheet/Carbon Nanotube Hybrid Electrode. Adv. Mater., 24: 4317–4321. doi: 10.1002/adma.201201320

Author Information

  1. 1

    i-Lab, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou 215123, P. R. China

  2. 2

    Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, ITODYS, UMR 7086 CNRS, 15 rue Jean-Antoine de Baïf, 75205 Paris Cedex 13, France

*i-Lab, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou 215123, P. R. China.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 6 AUG 2012
  2. Article first published online: 14 JUN 2012
  3. Manuscript Revised: 12 MAY 2012
  4. Manuscript Received: 31 MAR 2012

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Keywords:

  • graphene;
  • carbon nanotubes;
  • actuation;
  • bio-inspired;
  • ionic liquids
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A RGO/CNT hybrid electrode of porous structure is prepared through a surfactant-free solution method to construct a bimorph ionic actuator, showing wide frequency range responsive and highly repeatable (over a million times) and stable bending actuation performance.

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