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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2005
Yet-ming Chiang, Framingham, MA (US);
Steven R. Hall, Bedford, MA (US);
Yukinori Koyama, Osaka, JP;
Kyungyeol Song, Cambridge, MA (US);
E. Timothy Chin, Cambridge, MA (US);
Urs Rhyner, Schindellegi, CH;
Dimitrios Sapnaras, Cambridge, MA (US);
Fernando Tubilla, Cambridge, MA (US);
Yet-Ming Chiang, Framingham, MA (US);
Steven R. Hall, Bedford, MA (US);
Yukinori Koyama, Osaka, JP;
Kyungyeol Song, Cambridge, MA (US);
E. Timothy Chin, Cambridge, MA (US);
Urs Rhyner, Schindellegi, CH;
Dimitrios Sapnaras, Cambridge, MA (US);
Fernando Tubilla, Cambridge, MA (US);
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides devices and structures and methods of use thereof in electrochemical actuation. This invention provides electrochemical actuators, which are based, inter-alia, on an electric field-driven intercalation or alloying of high-modulus inorganic compounds, which can produce large and reversible volume changes, providing high actuation energy density, high actuation authority and large free strain.