Aaron Todd Sellinger

TL;DR: In general, peak electromechanical performance was reported around the electrical percolation threshold for CNT addition, and the increased conductivity at these higher nanotube loadings, however, can result in a leakage current that decreases the external power effi ciency for capacitive operation of the EAP.

TL;DR: The effect of the dynamic molecular rearrangements leading to compositional segregation is revealed in coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations of short pulse laser interaction with a polymer solution in a volatile matrix, explaining unexpected "deflated balloon" structures observed in films deposited by the matrix-assisted pulsed laser evaporation technique.

TL;DR: In this paper, a combined experimental and computational study is performed to investigate the origin and characteristics of the surface features observed in SEM images of thin polymer films deposited in matrix-assisted pulsed laser evaporation (MAPLE).

TL;DR: In this article, the origins of the surface features observed in films deposited by the Matrix-Assisted Pulsed Laser Evaporation (MAPLE) technique have been investigated in a coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulation.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of substrate heating on thin films deposited by matrix assisted pulsed laser evaporation (MAPLE) were investigated, and the degradation behavior was obtained from differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) where the glass transition temperatures (Tg) of native and MAPLE deposited PMMA samples were measured.