Conjugated polymers are electroactive and have found applications as artificial muscles.
Actuators that have been developed over the last decade have now reached the early …

Among in situ techniques, the electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance (EQCM) is a
powerful tool for the study of electrochemical reactions that produce mass changes in the …

Conjugated polymers have a number of interesting properties that can be exploited in
microfabricated sensors and actuators. For example, polypyrrole is a conjugated polymer …

The charging and discharging processes of conducting polymers are accompanied by ion
exchange between the polymer and the electrolyte. The type, size and valency of the …

The electrochemically induced volume change in conjugated polymers is of interest for
actuator applications. Important parameters include the magnitude and speed of the volume …

Conjugated polymers such as polypyrrole (PPy) have potential use as artificial muscles or in
microsystems such as valves for microfluid handling. One of the most important parameters …

The conjugated polymer polypyrrole undergoes a volume change of several percent when
its oxidation state is changed electrochemically by the application of voltages between 0 and …

The method of self-organization used for manufacturing field-effect transistors (FET), was
investigated. Low-voltage polymer FETs based on poly (9, 9-dialkylfluorene-alt-triarylmine) …

Drawn polyaniline films and fibers doped with 2-acrylamido-2-methyl-propane-1-sulfonic
acid, PANI (AMPS), were electrochemically cycled in HCl and their material properties and …

Smart materials are the way of the future in a variety of fields, from biomedical engineering
and chemistry to nanoscience, nanotechnology, and robotics. Featuring an interdisciplinary …