Polymeric actuator analysis using bibliometric maps

Abstract

Humanity is in a continue research and development to find new materials in order to replace the classic ones. Smart materials are one of the solutions. In this article we present a review over the developed actuators in the last years, using polymers. This review highlights multiple type of the actuators, their structure and strategy and classifies them after the application domain and their main objective. Using VOSviewer we built bibliometric maps to present the importance of items as “performance”, “force”, “system”, “actuation”, etc. for the development of new actuators.