State-of-the-Art and Perspectives for Electroactive Polymers

Certain polymers can be stimulated to change their physical and chemical properties by an environmental stimulus. This may be chemical, optical, magnetic, or electric (Bar-Cohen and Anderson, 2019). In particular, electrical fields are one of the most attractive stimulators and have received great attention from the scientific community (Kumar et al., 2007; Gonzalez, Garcia, and Newell, 2019; Wei et al., 2017; Bajpai et al., 2011; Aguilar and Román, 2019).