Sentences with word «electroactive»

One NASA - sponsored study sketches designs for probes crafted from sheets of electroactive polymer, which can change its shape to twist and flap like a thrush's wings.

The new battery is based on a redox flow design — similar in design to a fuel cell, with two tanks of electroactive materials dissolved in water.

The tanks of electroactive materials can be made as large as needed — increasing total amount of energy the system can store — or the central cell can be tweaked to release that energy faster or slower, altering the amount of power (energy released over time) that the system can generate.

Herein, we report the first electroactive MOF with the UiO / PIZOF topology (Zr (dcphOH - NDI)-RRB-, i.e., one of the most widely used MOFs for catalyst incorporation, by using redox - active naphthalene diimide - based linkers (dcphOH - NDI).

Researchers coat electroactive polymers with carbon for fewer moving parts in consumer electronics

In the as - prepared electroactive threads, the carbon nanotube sheets coated the fiber core with a thickness of less than half a micron.

This is not the first time electroactive polymers (EAPs) have been used to create rotary motion, says Anderson.

These kinds of EAPs are extremely strong, says Yosef Bar - Cohen, who specialises in electroactive materials at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California — many times stronger than their biological counterparts.

The muscles themselves are electroactive structures consisting of two layers of conducting carbon grease separated by an extremely stretchy insulating polymer film, says Anderson.

They are the first commercial products based on a new generation of improved electroactive polymers (EAPs), plastics that move in response to electricity.

But many applications would demand electroactive materials that grow by more than just a fraction of a percent.

An unconventional solution is now presented by Singaporean and Chinese scientists: as reported in the journal Angewandte Chemie, they coated live, electroactive bacteria with a conducting polymer and obtained a high - performance anode for microbial fuel cells.

The Reynolds lab's electrochromic films are made with conjugated polymers, colorful and electroactive organic molecules.

Specific enrichment of hyperthermophilic electroactive Archaea from deep - sea hydrothermal vent on electrically conductive support — Guillaume Pillot — Bioresource Technology

The accumulation of mineral precipitates, such as iron sulfide, and electroactive ions, such as ferrous and hydrogen sulfide) altered the ability of fluids in the subsurface pore spaces to conduct electrical charge.

In a paper published in Chemical Science, an open access journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry, researchers in the lab of Ellen Matson, assistant professor of chemistry, describe modifying a metal - oxide cluster, which has promising electroactive properties, so that it is nearly twice as effective as the unmodified cluster for electrochemical energy storage in a redox flow battery.

The team's breakthrough centered around the electroactive materials.

Carbon nanotubes are well known to be electroactive and mechanically stable; they can be spun and aligned in sheets.

A few years ago several individuals, including Yoseph Bar - Cohen, a senior research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., posted a challenge to the electroactive polymer research community to drum up interest in the field: a race to build the first EAP - driven robotic arm that could beat a human arm wrestler one on one.

Back during the field's infancy, «the electroactive polymer materials I read about in scientific papers didn't work as advertised,» he recalls, chuckling slyly.

AMI now manufactures actuators and transducers (touch sensors) that employ its electroactive polymer artificial - muscle technology.

A metal - free and all - organic redox flow battery with polythiophene as the electroactive species.