Congratulations to Jim Carrico and Nick Traeden, winners of 2015 ASME SMASIS (Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures, and Intelligent Systems) Conference Student Best Paper Award, held September 21-23, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Jim and Nick’s work describes a new 3D printing technique for fabricating ionic polymer-metal composite actuators for applications such as soft robotics.
J. D. Carrico, N. W. Traeden, M. Aureli and K. K. Leang: Fused Filament Additive Manufacturing of Ionic Polymer-Metal Composite Soft Active 3D Structures. ASME Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS), September 21-23, 2015 in Colorado Springs, Colorado., Colorado Springs, Colorado, 2015.
The paper can be downloaded for review here [ PDF ].
