Poly-3,4-ethylenedixoythiophene on carbide-derived carbon trilayer: combined linear actuation characterization

Alo Kivilo; Zane Zondaka; Sunjai Nakshatharan; Kadi-Anne Küppar; Tarmo Tamm; Rudolf Kiefer

doi:10.1117/12.2300133

27 March 2018 Poly-3,4-ethylenedixoythiophene on carbide-derived carbon trilayer: combined linear actuation characterization

Alo Kivilo, Zane Zondaka, Sunjai Nakshatharan, Kadi-Anne Küppar, Tarmo Tamm, Rudolf Kiefer

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Proceedings Volume 10594, Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) XX; 105942L (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2300133
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2018, Denver, Colorado, United States

Abstract

Carbide-derived carbon (CDC) based actuators have been typically formulated as trilayer systems and applied in bending displacement. In this work, we want to demonstrate that CDC deposited on glass fiber fabric (CDC-TL) with an additional poly-3.4-ethylenedioxythiophene (PEDOT) layer electropolymerized on top forming a polylayer (expressed as CDC-PEDOT-TL) can be used as a linear actuator. Isotonic and isometric electro-chemo-mechanical deformation (ECMD) measurements in lithium bis(trifluoromethane) sulfonamide propylene carbonate (LiTFSI-PC) were performed, revealing that the CDC expansion at discharging can be found in CDC-PEDOT-TL (main expansion at oxidation of 0.5% strain) in same extent of 0.24 %. The stress found in similar values of 30 kPa for both system. Besides the nearly 5times better conductivity of CDC-PEDOT-TL, the charge density reduce nearly half in comparison to CDC-TL.

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Alo Kivilo, Zane Zondaka, Sunjai Nakshatharan, Kadi-Anne Küppar, Tarmo Tamm, and Rudolf Kiefer "Poly-3,4-ethylenedixoythiophene on carbide-derived carbon trilayer: combined linear actuation characterization", Proc. SPIE 10594, Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) XX, 105942L (27 March 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2300133

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