Bijan Nasri Nasrabadi
Deakin University, Australia
Title: Wet-spun carbon nanotubes for soft robotic applications
Biography
Biography: Bijan Nasri Nasrabadi
Abstract
Actuators are smart materials that convert light, heat, or electricity into motion and can be attractive in areas as diverse as biomedical surgery, sensing, and robotic. However, the practical applications of these actuators are limited by defective combination of the high generated force, fast response and large motion. Normally, actuators show large displacement with small force, such as polymeric devices, or display much less motion with a higher force, such as the alloy NiTi. Short operation time and slow reflexion are another weaknesses of current actuators. This study has demonstrated that a structure of carbon nanotube filaments, can represent long operation life time as well as quick and large bending actuation, in the absence of electrolytes.