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ArticlePolymers2016

Fabrication of a Miniature Paper-Based Electroosmotic Actuator.

Deepa Sritharan, Elisabeth Smela

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Article in Polymers, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. A Low Voltage-Powered Flexible Electroosmotic Actuator for Wearable Haptics.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Deepa SritharanDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA. deepey@umd.edu.
Elisabeth SmelaDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA. smela@umd.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-3921-2265

Funding

National Science Foundation CNS 0931878
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A voltage-controlled hydraulic actuator is presented that employs electroosmotic fluid flow (EOF) in paper microchannels within an elastomeric structure. The microfluidic device was fabricated using a new benchtop lamination process. Flexible embedded electrodes were formed from a conductive carbon-silicone composite. The pores in the layer of paper placed between the electrodes served as the microchannels for EOF, and the pumping fluid was propylene carbonate. A sealed fluid-filled chamber was formed by film-casting silicone to lay an actuating membrane over the pumping liquid. Hydraulic force generated by EOF caused the membrane to bulge by hundreds of micrometers within fractions of a second. Potential applications of these actuators include soft robots and biomedical devices.

Indexed as

additive manufacturingartificial musclebiomimeticcompliantelectro-active polymer deviceelectrokinetic flownasticsmart material

Identifiers

PMID30974674
PMCPMC6432343

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