An electrorheological fluid and siloxane gel based electromechanical actuator: Working toward an artificial muscle

provided by the General Electric Silicones Division,Waterford, NY, was used. The PDMS gel was preparedStriated skeletal muscle responds to a nerve impulse by mixing equal parts of A and B and allowing thein less than 100 ms. In the past, polymeric gels (1) and mixture to cure. A swollen gel was made by mixingconducting polymers (2) have been investigated for use silicone fluid with the RTV 6136 before it had cured.as artificial muscle. However, the main problem with The gels had a cure time of about 1 h.these materials is their relatively slow response (œ3 The ERF used was a commercial sample, Rheobays).