Researchers at the NASA Langley Research Center have produced an advanced electro-active materials based transducer that can harvest orders of magnitude more energy in a given application than traditional solutions, yielding more power to drive devices and store in batteries.
In a complementary effort, researchers have also produced the first hybrid actuator or HYBAS system, with both an electroactive polymer and an electroactive ceramic that achieves enhanced displacement performance from a single power supply, greatly reducing electrical consumption while simultaneously improving mechanical displacement compared to current state-of-the-art actuators.
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Post time: Jun-12-2017