Bayer MaterialScience acquires Artificial Muscle

Bayer MaterialScience has acquired Artificial Muscle, Inc. (AMI) of Sunnyvale, California, a leader in the field of electroactive polymers for the consumer electronics industry. AMI polymers are used in the development, design and manufacture of actuators and sensing components used for electronic devices like smart-phones, gaming controllers and touch-pads. Through the acquisition, Bayer MaterialScience gains exclusive access to a broad patent portfolio and patent applications owned or exclusively licensed by AMI. This will allow Bayer MaterialScience to address a significant part of the value chain for films in a broad range of applications, as well as to accelerate the introduction of the technology based on such products into the market within the next two years.