• 文献标题:   A large-strain, fast-response, and easy-to-manufacture electrothermal actuator based on laser-reduced graphene oxide
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZHANG TY, WANG Q, DENG NQ, ZHAO HM, WANG DY, YANG Z, LIU Y, YANG Y, REN TL
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  • 出版物名称:   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0003-6951 EI 1077-3118
  • 通讯作者地址:   Tsinghua Univ
  • 被引频次:   9
  • DOI:   10.1063/1.5003610
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

In this paper, we have developed a high-performance graphene electrothermal actuator (ETA). The fabrication method is easy, fast, environmentally friendly, and suitable for preparing both largesize and miniature graphene ETAs. When applied with the driving voltage of 65 V, the graphene ETA achieves a large bending angle of 270 degrees with a fast response of 8 s and the recovery process costs 19 s. The large bending deformation is reversible and can be precisely controlled by the driving voltage. A simple robotic hand prepared by using a single graphene ETA can hold the object, which is more than ten times the weight of itself. By virtue of its large-strain, fast response, and easy-to-manufacture, we believe that the graphene ETA has tremendous potential in extensive applications involving biomimetic robotics, artificial muscles, switches, and microsensors in both macroscopic and microscopic fields.