Actuator Using Electrostriction Effect of Fullerenol-Doped Polyurethane Elastomer (PUE) Films

• KYOKANE Jun

  Department of Electrical Engineering, Nara National College of Technology

• TSUJIMOTO Kenji

  Department of Electrical Engineering, Nara National College of Technology

• YANAGISAWA Yuki

  Department of Electrical Engineering, Nara National College of Technology

• UEDA Tsutomu

  Research and Development Division, Nitta Corporation Ltd.

• FUKUMA Masumi

  Department of Electrical Engineering, Matsue National College of Technology

Abstract

Polyurethane elastomer (PUE) films similar to polymer gel materials have been found to exhibit the electrostriction effect. We proposed the application their to a moving device such as an actuator without ionic solvent using the electrostriction effect of PUE. The actuators are of monomorph type fabricated by PUE film and metal electrodes evaporated at different thicknesses on the film surface. Because these actuators work at high voltage more than 1 KV, we controlled the molecular structure of the films by doping Ceo derivatives (fullerenol) into PUE so that the actuators could operate under a low voltage. In order to clear the bending mechanism of actuators, we measured the space charge of PUE films using the pulsed electroacoustic method.

Journal

• IEICE Trans. Electronics

  IEICE Trans. Electronics 87 (2), 136-141, 2004-02-01

  The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers

Keywords

• polyurethane elastomer films
• electrostriction effect
• actuators
• monomorph type
• C_<60> and derivatives
• control of morphology
• space charge

Details

• CRID: 1571698602418784896
• NII Article ID: 110003214829
• NII Book ID: AA10826283
• ISSN: 09168524
• Text Lang: en
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