Eurosensors, Date: 2011/09/04 - 2011/09/07, Location: Athens, Greece
Publication date:
2011-01-01
Volume:
25
Pages:
856 -
859
Publisher:
Elsevier
Procedia Engineering
Author:
Guan, Tiannan
Godts, Felix ; Ceyssens, Frederik ; Dubruel, Peter ; Neves, Hercules Pereira ; Puers, Bob ; Kaltsas, G ; Tsamis, C
Keywords:
Science & Technology, Technology, Instruments & Instrumentation, micropatterning, photo-crosslinkable, electroactive, Pluronic, hydrogel, GELS, 09 Engineering
Abstract:
This paper presents the controlled swelling of a novel active material for microsystems: a photopatternable electroactive polymer gel. It is very promising as an actuator material in biomedical and microfluidic applications as it shows a volume swelling of over 50% upon application of very modest voltages in a liquid environment. We present the synthesis of the novel material, the development of a MEMS compatible fabrication process and the measurements on fabricated test structures.