writer：Jiang Gong, Huijuan Lin, John W. C. Dunlop, Jiayin Yuan*
keywords：commercial cloth , nanoporous polymer
source：期刊
specific source：Advanced Materials 29(16) (2017) 1605103
Issue time：2017年
The first hygroscopically tunable cloth actuator is realized via impregnation of a commercial cloth template by a three dimensionally (3D) nanoporous polymer/carbon nanotube hybrid network. The nanoporous hybrid guarantees diffusion of water into the cloth actuator and amplifies the deformation scale. The cloth actuators are mechanically stable with high tensile strength. Because the commercial cotton cloth is inexpensive, such actuators capable of complex motions can be produced in a large size and scale for a wide variety of utilities (e.g. electric generators and “smart” materials).