Release Date: 18 March, 2004
Hardcover
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From Book News, Inc.
Discusses the materials, analytical models, processing techniques, and characterization methods being employed to develop electroactive polymers that change size and shape when given some voltage or current. The 21 chapters describe the mechanisms of muscle operation and their behavior as actuators, electroactive polymer gels, ionomeric polymer-metal composites, computation methods, and progress in creating miniature insect-like robotics that can crawl, swim, or fly. The second edition reports advances in understanding material behavior. Bar-Cohen is a senior research scientist and group leader at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and a Fellow of SPIE and the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT).Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Steven S. Saliterman, MD, FACP, Chief of Medicine Methodist Hospital; Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota
"...a delightful book dealing with one of the hottest topics in biomedical engineering....It is thorough in every way…."
Book Description
In concept and execution, this book covers the field of EAP with careful attention to all its key aspects and full infrastructure, including the available materials, analytical models, processing techniques, and characterization methods. In this second edition the reader is brought current on promising advances in EAP that have occurred in electric EAP, electroactive polymer gels, ionomeric polymer-metal composites, carbon nanotube actuators, and more. Rating 4.0
OK, but not greatThis book is a collection EAP research material. It is very handy having it in one organized book that's always at your fingertips. The big problem for me was that the different EAP materials weren't covered uniformly. There was a huge emphasis on IPMC (most likely because that is the EAP that excites the editor the most). I was really hoping for more information on Ionic Polymer Gels (IPG) but found that they were only mentioned in passing (covering 2 pages). You will most likely give this book a `5' if you are interested in IPMC but otherwise the local university library is the best bet for studying this exciting subject. The Final FrontierA delightful book dealing with the soon to be hottest topic in biomedical engineering, electroactive polymer actuators. Virtually every known method of generating displacement is introduced, except of course for the ones I have kept secret. This book is a must for anyone interested in actuators and sensors, including electrical engineers. Applications reach far beyond medicine, and there is simply no other textbook available that covers this topic. It is thorough in every way, covering the basic sciences, fabrication techniques and applications. I wish I could work in Dr. Bar-Cohen's lab! |
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