# Presentation: 504263

## 2003 EAPAD Conference EAP-in-Action SessionMarch 3, 2003, San Diego, CA

| Title | Presenters |
| --- | --- |
| Electronic Braille Prototype Cell;
Valve + Sensor Smart Packaging System
Remote Control Rudder for Model Aircraft. | Geoffrey Spinks, Gordon Wallace, Dezhi Zhou, Binbin Xi and William Megill - IPRI, University of Wollongong, Australia
John Gillespie -  Quantum Technologies Ltd, Australia.  |
| Dielectric EAP - Actuators that were fabricated from the electrostrictive PVDFs and high dielectric polymers will be demonstrated showing new high dielectric constant polymers that can generate large actuation with much lower electric fields.    | Cheng Huang and Qiming Zhang, Penn State University, 167 Materials Research Lab, Materials Research Lab |
| Dielectric Electro-elastomer EAP: A demo will be made showing the stretching capabilities of this EAP and its applications as actuators, generators and sensors | Roy Kornbluh, Ron Pelrine, Qibing Pei, Jonathan Heim, Richard Heydt, Joseph Eckerle, Seajin Oh, Scott Stanford, Neville Bonwit, Philip von Guggenberg, and Don Czyzyk, SRI International, Menlo Park, California, USA |
| EAP Based Braille Display – A self supporting and hydraulic (SSH) system in an EAP based Braille Cell will be demonstrated. | Paul Yang - Arizona State University |
| EAP products - NanoSonics will present its EAP products including ionomeric transducers.  The demonstration will include EAP sensors, analysis methods and design software.  NanoSonic is a materials supplier for electroactive polymers, including ionomeric transducers, conductive polymers, conducting coatings and carbon nanotubes.   | Don Leo, Rick Claus, Matt Bennett, Marten de Vries and Tingying Zeng, NanoSonic Inc., Blacksburg, VA  |
| Humanoid Robot Head enacting facial expressions –The model that will be presented represents several steps forward in making an EAP testbed ideal for demonstration of artificial muscles   | David Hanson - UT Dallas  |
| VIDEO - Robotic Fish – the first commercial EAP-based product and a major milestone for the field - EAP actuators (1mm x 12mm is size) are responsible for the fish swimming and they are attached between the body and fish tail and fins.   | Kazuo Onishi and Shingo Sewa, EAMEX Corp– development of the high performance EAP actuator and the fish robots 
DAIICHI KOGEI Corp – manufacturing and marketing  |
| VIDEO - Carbon Nanotubes EAP 
The video will show the response to +2V square wave signal where the Nanotube film changes its shape.  The sample was tested using cyclic, differential, and normal signals showing a similar response.  During activation bubbles are seen emitted from the film and the presenters are concerned that the shape change is not an EAP behavior but a result of the bubbles emission.  When the film is placed in a strong organic base there is no movement in the potential range of -2V (< reduction potential for electrolysis in this base).
Sample - A gold plated Nanotube electrode in a three electrode system of a single compartment cell. The electrolyte is 2M Nano3 with platinum and an Ag/AgCl as the counter and the reference electrodes.  | Liming Dai and Prabhu Soundarrajan - University of Akron, OH |

## Robotic Fish The first commercial EAP-based productDeveloped by Kazuo Onishi and Shingo Sewa, EAMEX Corp Manufactured and marketed by DAIICHI KOGEI Corp.

## Carbon Nanotube EAPLiming Dai, University of Akron