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  • High Performance Ionic Polymer-Metal Composite Actuators Based on Nanopatterned Nafion by Thermal Imprinting Lithography

  • Dong-Heon Han# , Jaewon Choi#,*, Seung-Ju Oh, Jae-Uk Yoon, In-Sun Woo, Jinah Kim, and Jin Woo Bae†

  • Multifunctional Organic Polymer Laboratory, Future Convergence Engineering, School of Energy,
    Materials and Chemical Engineering, Korea University of Technology and Education, Cheonan 31253, Korea
    *Department of Carbon Convergence Engineering, Jeonju University, Jeonju 55069, Korea

  • 열압착으로 나노구조가 도입된 나피온을 이용한 고성능 이온성 고분자-금속 복합체 구동기

  • 한동헌# · 최재원#,* · 오승주 · 윤재욱 · 우인선 · 김진아 · 배진우†

  • 한국기술교육대학교 에너지신소재화학공학부 미래융합공학전공
    *전주대학교 탄소융합공학과

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This Article

  • 2022; 46(4): 491-496

    Published online Jul 25, 2022

  • 10.7317/pk.2022.46.4.491
  • Received on Mar 28, 2022
  • Revised on May 15, 2022
  • Accepted on May 18, 2022

Correspondence to

  • Jin Woo Bae

  • Multifunctional Organic Polymer Laboratory, Future Convergence Engineering, School of Energy,
    Materials and Chemical Engineering, Korea University of Technology and Education, Cheonan 31253, Korea

  • E-mail: jwbae@koraetech.ac.kr