This article covers advances made in connection with Ionic Polymeric-Conductor Nano Composites
(IPCNCs) as distributed biomimetic nanosensors, nanoactuators, nanorobots and artificial muscles.
A review of the fundamental properties and characteristics of IPCNCs will first be presented. This
summary will include descriptions of the basic materials' molecular structure and subsequent
procedure to manufacture the basic material for chemical plating and electroactivation. Further
described are chemical molecular plating technologies to make IPCNCs, nanotechnologies of
manufacturing and trapping of nanoparticles, SEM, TEM, SPM and AFM characterization of
IPMNCs, biomimetic sensing and actuation characterization techniques, electrical characterization
and equivalent circuit modeling of IPCNCs as electronic materials.
A phenomenological model of the underlying sensing and actuation mechanisms is also presented
based on linear irreversible thermodynamics with two driving forces, an electric field and a solvent
pressure gradient and two fluxes, electric current density and the ionic+solvent flux. The
presentation concludes with a number of videos and some live demos.