Artificial Muscles from Hybrid Carbon Nanotube-Polypyrrole-Coated Twisted and Coiled Yarns

Aziz, Shazed (författare): Linköpings universitet,Sensor- och aktuatorsystem,Tekniska fakulteten

Martinez Gil, Jose Gabriel (författare): Linköpings universitet,Sensor- och aktuatorsystem,Tekniska fakulteten

Jager, Edwin (författare): Linköpings universitet,Sensor- och aktuatorsystem,Tekniska fakulteten,Univ Wollongong, Australia

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2020-09-11
2020
Engelska.
Ingår i: Macromolecular materials and engineering. - : WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH. - 1438-7492 .- 1439-2054. ; 305:11

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Electrochemically or electrothermally driven twisted/coiled carbon nanotube (CNT) yarn actuators are interesting artificial muscles for wearables as they can sustain high stress. However, due to high fabrication costs, these yarns have limited their application in smart textiles. An alternative approach is to use off-the-shelf yarns and coat them with conductive polymers that deliver high actuation properties. Here, novel hybrid textile yarns are demonstrated that combine CNT and an electroactive polypyrrole coating to provide both high strength and good actuation properties. CNT-coated polyester yarns are twisted and coiled and subjected to electrochemical coating of polypyrrole to obtain the hierarchical soft actuators. When twisted without coiling, the polypyrrole-coated yarns produce fully reversible 25 degrees mm(-1)rotation, 8.3x higher than the non-reversible rotation from twisted CNT-coated yarns in a three-electrode electrochemical system operated between +0.4 and -1.0 V (vs Ag/AgCl). The coiled yarns generate fully reversible 10 degrees mm(-1)rotation and 0.22% contraction strain, 2.75x higher than coiled CNT-coated yarns, when operated within the same potential window. The twisted and coiled yarns exhibit high tensile strength with excellent abrasion resistance in wet and dry shearing conditions that can match the requirements for using them as soft actuators in wearables and textile exoskeletons.

Av författaren/redakt...: Aziz, Shazed; Martinez Gil, Jo ...; Foroughi, Javad; Spinks, Geoffrey ...; Jager, Edwin

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