ARTMUS - Artificial Muscles list of publications

Final report: Report for ARTMUS.pdf

Some powerpoint presentations:

P. Sommer-Larsen et al, Polymer Actuators (545 KB), Nordic Polymer Days, Stockholm, June 13-15; 2001

 P. Sommer-Larsen, Polymer Actuators – Part I (540 Kb), Actuator 2002, Bremen, June 10-12; 2002. (Part II was given by Roy Kornbluh, SRI International, kornbluh@erg.sri.com )  

Patents and patent applications:

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Reviewed journals:

5. K.P. Vidanapathirana, M.A. Careem, S. Skaarup, and K. West, “The Influence of Preparation Conditions on the Electrical Conductivity of Poly N-Methylpyrrole Films”. Solid State Ionics, 123 287-92 (1999). 

6. Smela, E.; Gadegaard, N., Surprising volume change in PPy(DBS): An atomic force microscopy study. Adv. Mater. (1999) 11 , 953-957  

7. Steen Skaarup, Keld West, L.M.W.K. Gunaratne, K.P. Vidanapathirana and M.A. Careem, Determination of Ionic Carriers in Polypyrrole. Solid State Ionics 136-137 (2000) 577-582.  

8. Pelrine R, Kornbluh R, Kofod G, High-strain actuator materials based on dielectric elastomers, ADVANCED MATERIALS, 12: (16) 1223-1225 AUG 16 2000  

9. Maw, Sean; Smela, Elisabeth; Yoshida, Ken; Sommer-Larsen, Peter; Stein, Richard B., The effects of varying deposition current density on bending behaviour in PPy(DBS)-actuated bending beams, Sensors and Actuators - A - Physical Sensors 2001 - volume 89 - issue 3 - page 175 – 184  

10. Lasse Bay, Torben Jacobsen, Steen Skaarup and Keld West, Mechanism of Actuation in Conducting Polymers: Osmotic Expansion. J. Phys. Chem. B 2001, 105, 8492-8497  

11. Smela, E.; Gadegaard, N , Volume change in polypyrrole studied by atomic force microscopy, J PHYS CHEM B 105 (39): 9395-9405 OCT 4 2001  

12. G. Kofod, P. Sommer-Larsen, R. Kornbluh, R. Pelrine, Actuation response of polyacrylate Dielectric Elastomers, Accepted by J. Intelligent Materials Systems and Structures.  

13. L. Bay, S. Skaarup, and K. West, “Effect of Pentanol as Co-Surfactant in Polypyrrole Actuators”. POLYMER 2002, 43 (12): 3527-3532  

14. G. Kofod, P. Sommer-Larsen, Silicone elastomer actuators: complete model of actuation behaviour, under preparation for J. Applied Physics.  

15. Steen Skaarup, Lasse Bay, Kamal Vidanapathirana, Susanne Thybo, Pentti Tofte and Keld West, "Simultaneous Anion and Cation Mobility in Polypyrrole". Solid State Ionics 159 (1-2): 143-147 2003  

16. Bay L, Mogensen N, Skaarup S, Sommer-Larsen P, Jorgensen M, West K, “Polypyrrole doped with alkyl benzenesulfonates”, Macromolecules 2002, 35 (25): 9345-9351  

17. Bay L, West K, Sommer-Larsen P, Skaarup S, Benslimane M, “A conducting polymer artificial muscle with 12% linear strain, ”, Advanced Materials 2003, 15 (4): 310-313  

Popular science magazines:

18. Sommer-Larsen, P., Polymeraktuatorer som kunstige muskler. Risønyt (1999) (no.2), 17-19 Full text version  

19. Steen Skaarup, Ledende polymerer – og “kunstige muskler”. Danmarks Radios naturvidenskabelige hjemmeside www.dr.dk/orbitalen.  

20. Keld West og Klaus Bechgaard, Nobelprisen i kemi 2000: Ledende polymerer. Dansk Kemi, 2001.  

21. K. West, and P. Sommer-Larsen: “ARTMUS – Artificial Muscles”. WWW-EAP Newsletter 2(1) 5-6 (2000).   The project has furthermore been described in numerous newspaper articles and a radio interview  

Conference proceedings:

22. Steen Skaarup, Keld West, L.M.W.K. Gunaratne and K.P. Vidanapathirana, Ionic Motion in Polypyrrole Doped With Ions of Different Sizes. In B.V.R. Chowdari, K. Lal, S.A. Agnihotry, N. Khare, S.S. Sekhon, P.C. Srivastava and S. Chandra (eds.) "Solid State Ionics, Science and Technology", (World Scientific, Singapore) page 163-172 (1998).  

23. M. Benslimane, P. Gravesen, K. West, S. Skaarup and P. Sommer-Larsen, Performance of Polymer Based Actuators: The Three-layer Model. In Y. Bar-Cohen (ed.) “Electroactive Polymer Actuator and Devices”, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 3669 (1999) 87-93.  

24. K.P. Vidanapathirana, M.A. Careem, S. Skaarup and K. West, “Ion movement in poly-N-methylpyrrole films during redox processes” in B.V.R. Chowdari and Wenji Wang (eds.) “Solid State Ionics: Materials and Devices”, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., Singapore, p 421-425 (2000).  

25. M. Benslimane, P. Gravesen, K. West, L. Bay and S. Skaarup, Conducting Polymer Materials and their Mechanical Properties for Actuation: The Case of Polypyrrole. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on New Actuators, Bremen, Germany (2000) 635-638.  

26. L. Bay, K. West, N. Vlachopoulos, and S. Skaarup, “Potential Profile in a Conducting Polymer Strip”. Proc. SPIE, Smart Structures and Materials 2001: Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD), Y. Bar-Cohen, ed., 4329, 2001, 54-58  

27. L. Bay, S. Skaarup, K. West, T. Mazur, O. Jørgensen, and H.D. Rasmussen, “Porperties of Polypyrrole Doped Wirh Alkylbenzene Sulfonates”. Proc. SPIE, Smart Structures and Materials 2001: Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD), Y. Bar-Cohen, ed., 4329, 2001, 101-105  

28. Guggi Kofod, Roy Kornbluh, Ron Pelrine, Roy Kornbluh, and Peter Sommer-Larsen, (Denmark & USA), "Actuation response of polyacrylate dielectric elastomers", Proc. SPIE, Smart Structures and Materials 2001: Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD), Y. Bar-Cohen, ed., 4329, 2001, 141-147  

29. Peter Sommer-Larsen, Jacob Hooker, Guggi Kofod, Keld West, Mohammed Benslimane, and Peter Gravesen, Denmark, "Response of dielectric elastomer actuators", Proc. SPIE, Smart Structures and Materials 2001: Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD), Y. Bar-Cohen, ed., 4329, 2001, 157-163  

30. Ron Pelrine, Guggi Kofod, Roy Kornbluh, Qibing Pei, Joe Eckerle, Richard Heydt, S. Venkat Shastri, and Peter Sommer-Larsen (SRI International, USA& Denmark) "Applications of Dielectric Elastomer Artificial Muscles", Proc. SPIE, Smart Structures and Materials 2001: Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD), Y. Bar-Cohen, ed., 4329, 2001, 335-349  

31. Peter Sommer-Larsen, Keld West, Guggi Kofod, Steen Skaarup, Lasse Bay, Peter Gravesen, and Mohammed Benslimane, “Electroactive polymers as actuators – from gels to elastomers.” CD-Rom proceeding, Seminar, Medical Plastics, Denmark, September 2001.  

32. Peter Sommer-Larsen, Guggi Kofod, Mohammed Benslimane, Peter Gravesen, “Performance of dielectric elastomer actuators and materials “, To appear on SPIE EAPAD Conference SS02, March 2002, San Diego, CA  

33. Peter Sommer-Larsen, Roy Kornbluh, “Polymer Actuators”, To appear on ACTUATOR 2002, June 2002, Bremen, Germany.  

34. Mohamed Benslimane, Peter Gravesen, Peter Sommer-Larsen, “Dielectric elastomer actuators with smart metallic compliant electrodes”, To appear on ACTUATOR 2002, June 2002, Bremen, Germany.   Internal reports and summaries from meetings:

35. Project meeting 2-11, ARTMUS internal homepage.  

36. Guggi Kofoed, “Dielectric elastomer actuators”, Ph.D. thesis, The Technical University of Denmark (2001)  

37. Skaarup, S.; West,K., Analysis of PPY-DBS and NaDBS, Internal Report, 31 March 99  

38. Thybo, S.; Tofte, P., Kationers indflydelse på redox-egenskaber af polypyrrol dodecylbenzosulfonat film, Polyteknisk midtvejsprojekt rapport, Institut for Kemi, DTU, 29 juni 1999  

39. D. Enevoldsen, S.G. Eskesen og M.V. Nielsen, Elektrokemi og aktuatoregenskaber af polypyrrol doteret med benzensulfonater. Polyteknisk midtvejsprojekt rapport, Institut for Kemi, DTU, 13 juni 2000  

40. M.M. Nielsen, M. Nielsen, M. Gerstenberger, K. West, P. Sommer-Larsen, In-situ study of elctro-mechanical response in polypyrrole, Report 2001, Hasylab Hamburg  

41. P.Sommer-Larsen, “Yearly status report”, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001.  

Conference extended abstract books:

42. K.P. Vidanapathirana, M.A. Careem, S. Skaarup, and K. West, “The Influence of Preparation Conditions on the Electrical Conductivity of Poly N-Methylpyrrole Films”, 11th International Conference on Solid State Ionics, Honolulu (1997).  

43. K. West and S. Skaarup, “Conjugation Length: A Parameter with Critical Influence on the Functionality of Conducting Polymers”. 3rd Workshop on Multifunctional & Smart Polymer Systems, Tierrenia, Italy (1998).  

44. S. Skaarup, K. West, L.M.W.K Gunaratne, K.P. Vidanapathirana, and M.A. Careem, “Cation and Anion Mobility in Polypyrrole”. 12th International Conference on Solid State Ionics, Haldiki, Greece (1999).  

45. K. West, S. Skaarup, K. Vidanapathirana, M. Benslimane, P. Graversen, and I. Johannsen, (Invited Paper - “ECS fellow”) “Electro-chemo-mechanics of Poly(Pyrrole)-Dodecyl Benzene Sulphonate (PPy-DBS)”. Electrochem’99, Portsmouth, UK (1999). 

46. K. West, S. Skaarup, K. Vidanapathirana, M. Benslimane, P. Graversen, and I. Johannsen, “Electro-chemo-mechanics of Poly(Pyrrole)-Dodecyl Benzene Sulphonate (PPy-DBS)”. 4th Workshop on Multifunctional & Smart Polymer Systems, Malahide, Ireland (1999).  

47. K.P. Vidanapathirana, M.A. Careem, S. Skaarup, and K. West, “Ion Movement in Poly-N-Methylpyrrole Film During Redox Processes”. ASSSI, Fuzhou, China (2000).

48. S. Skaarup, L. Bay, K. Vidanapathirana, S. Thybo, P. Tofte, and K. West, “Simultaneous Anion and Cation Mobility in Polypyrrole”, SSI 2001, Cairns, Australia. 

49. Keld West, Lasse Bay, and Steen Skaarup, “Optimisation of the actuator properties of polypyrrole doped with alkyl benzene sulfonates.” International workshop: “Electroactive Polymers and Biosystems: New Directions in Electroactive Polymer Materials for Biomimetic and Interactive Processes”, Lucca, July 2001.       Other conference presentations:

50. Kofod, G.; Faldt, A.; Sommer-Larsen, P., Dielectric spectroscopy and rheology of graphite filled elastomer. In: Nordic polymer days 1999. Nordic polymer days, Danish Society for Polymer Technology, Copenhagen (DK), 31 May - 2 Jun 1999. (Ingeniørforeningen i Danmark, Copenhagen, 1999) P4  

51. Hooker, J.C.; Kofod, G.; Smela, E.; Gadegaard, N.; Sommer-Larsen, P.; West, K.; Skaarup, S.; enslimane, M.; Gravesen, P., Polymer actuators. In: Nordic polymer days 1999. Nordic polymer days, Danish Society for Polymer Technology, Copenhagen (DK), 31 May - 2 Jun 1999. (Ingeniørforeningen i Danmark, Copenhagen, 1999) P13  

52. Sommer-Larsen, P., Dielectrical spectroscopy of polymers. Danish Society for Polymer Technology (PTS) thematic meeting, Risø (DK), 5 Oct 1999.  

53. Hooker, J.C.; Sommer-Larsen, P.; Johannsen, I.; Eskildsen, J.; Smela, E., Monitoring volume expansion of PPy(DBS) with AFM and Dektak profilometry: Effects of DBS isomers. 4. Workshop on multifunctional and smart polymer systems, Malahide (IE), 20-23 Sep 1999.  

54. Hooker, J.C., Polymer gels: Materials for actuation devices. MODECS Spring meeting 1999: Gels - Science and technology, Værløse (DK), 27 May 1999.  

55. Hooker, J.C., Complementary probe tack techniques for measuring adhesion of a model PSA. Meeting at Coloplast, Humlebæk (DK), 24 Nov 1999.

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