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High Energy Harvesting Performances Silicone Elastomer via Filling Soft Dielectric with Stretching Deformability

Advanced Materials, 2023
Dielectric elastomer generators (DEGs) with high generated energy density and high conversion efficiency are of great interest. Among several dielectric elastomers (DEs), silicone elastomer filled with ceramic fillers have been extensively studied for ...
Yingjie Jiang, Xueying Liu, Yuhao Wang, Chenchen Tian, Daming Wu, N. Ning, Ming Tian   +6 more
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Printing Reconfigurable Bundles of Dielectric Elastomer Fibers

Advanced Functional Materials, 2021
Active soft materials that change shape on demand are of interest for a myriad of applications, including soft robotics, biomedical devices, and adaptive systems.
Alex Chortos, Jie Mao, Jochen Mueller, Ehsan Hajiesmaili, J. Lewis, D. Clarke   +5 more
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Repeatedly Programmable Liquid Crystal Dielectric Elastomer with Multimodal Actuation

Advanced Materials
Dielectric elastomers (DEs) are actuatable under an electric field, whose large strain and fast response speed compare favorably with natural muscles.
Chengcheng Zhang, Guancong Chen, Kaihang Zhang, Binjie Jin, Qian Zhao, Tao Xie   +5 more
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TENG-Bot: Triboelectric nanogenerator powered soft robot made of uni-directional dielectric elastomer

Nano Energy, 2021
A soft robot employing dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) exhibits a flexible body and dexterity locomotion in unstructured environments. However, conventional power supplies required by DEAs pose an obstacle for small-scale robotic system ...
Wenjie Sun, Bo Li, Fei Zhang, Chunlong Fang, Yanjun Lu, Xing Gao, Chongjing Cao, Guimin Chen, Chi Zhang, Zhong Lin Wang   +9 more
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Laser-assisted failure recovery for dielectric elastomer actuators in aerial robots

Science Robotics, 2023
Insects maintain remarkable agility after incurring severe injuries or wounds. Although robots driven by rigid actuators have demonstrated agile locomotion and manipulation, most of them lack animal-like robustness against unexpected damage.
Suhan Kim, Y. Hsiao, Younghoon Lee, Weikun Zhu, Zhijian Ren, F. Niroui, Yufeng Chen   +6 more
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Skin‐Mountable Vibrotactile Stimulator Based on Laterally Multilayered Dielectric Elastomer Actuators

Advanced Functional Materials, 2023
Skin‐stimulation technology has attracted intense attention for virtual/augmented reality applications and tactile‐feedback systems. However, bulky, heavy, and stiff characteristics of existing skin‐stimulating devices limit their wearability and comfort,
J. Son, Siyoung Lee, G. Bae, Giwon Lee, M. Duduta, Kilwon Cho   +5 more
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Superstretchable Liquid-Metal Electrodes for Dielectric Elastomer Transducers and Flexible Circuits.

ACS Nano, 2023
Dielectric elastomer transducers (DETs), with a dielectric elastomer (DE) film sandwiched between two compliant electrodes, are highly sought after in the fields of soft robotics, energy harvesting, and human-machine interaction.
Wenpeng Zang, Yuhao Wang, Wenju Wu, Jiashuai Yao, Xuesong Hao, Bing Yu, Daming Wu, P. Cao, Yingjie Jiang, N. Ning, Ming Tian, Liqun Zhang   +11 more
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Biomimetic Dielectric Elastomer Actuators

The First IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, 2006. BioRob 2006., 2006
Polymer actuators offer attractive properties as biomimetic devices capable of mimicking functional characteristics of biological muscles and structures. This paper presents the ongoing research activities and the latest results achieved in our lab in the development of soft actuators made of a particular class of electroactive polymers, consisting of ...
CARPI, FEDERICO, De Rossi, Danilo
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Stretching Dielectric Elastomer Performance

Science, 2010
Devices using materials that deform in response to electricity are based on a phenomenon that was observed more than two centuries ago.
CARPI, FEDERICO, Bauer, Siegfried, De Rossi, Danilo   +2 more
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A Wearable Textile-Embedded Dielectric Elastomer Actuator Haptic Display

Soft Robotics, 2022
With advances in mobile computing and virtual/augmented reality technologies, communicating through touch using wearable haptic devices is poised to enrich and augment current information delivery channels that typically rely on sight and hearing.
Dae-Young Lee, S. Jeong, A. Cohen, Daniel M. Vogt, M. Kollosche, Geoffrey Lansberry, Y. Mengüç, A. Israr, D. Clarke, R. Wood   +9 more
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