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Polymer Testing, 2021 Excellent dielectric properties are essential for electromechanical applications of dielectric elastomer. This work confirms that acrylic resin elastomer (AE)-based percolative composites using MXene (Ti3C2Tx) nanosheets modified with PANI (referred to ...
Xin-Hua Gao +6 more
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Dielectric elastomer actuator biased by magnetorheological elastomer with permanent magnet
Smart Materials and Structures, 2023 Abstract Dielectric elastomer actuators have become one of the most important smart material transducers in recent times. One of the crucial aspects in this field is the application of bias to find the best operating conditions. The basic task is to find the proper bias configuration to obtain a wide range of displacements in the ...
Jakub Bernat +3 more
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Optimization of shape control of a cantilever beam using dielectric elastomer actuators
AIP Advances, 2018 Dielectric elastomer (DE) is a kind of smart soft material that has many advantages such as large deformation, fast response, lightweight and easy synthesis. These features make dielectric elastomer a suitable material for actuators. This article focuses
Chong Liu +5 more
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Modeling of a Dielectric Elastomer Bender Actuator
Actuators, 2014 The current smallest self-contained modular robot uses a shape memory alloy, which is inherently inefficient, slow and difficult to control. We present the design, fabrication and demonstration of a module based on dielectric elastomer actuation.
Paul White, Stella Latscha, Mark Yim
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Materials Research Express, 2020 Dielectric elastomer materials have a great application potential in electromechanical sensing and energy-harvesting fields. However, the realization of high electro-actuation properties under a relatively low electric field is still a critical challenge.
Xin Wei, Shuyan Gao, Na Zhang, Hang Zhao
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Effects of Ferroelectric Fillers on Composite Dielectric Elastomer Actuator
Actuators, 2021 Integrating nano- to micro-sized dielectric fillers to elastomer matrices to form dielectric composites is one of the commonly utilized methods to improve the performance of dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs).
Stanislav Sikulskyi +4 more
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Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering, 2019 Introduction The use of a smart electromechanical material, dielectric elastomer, is investigated for the development of an active bracing technique, which modifies the stiffness and damping of the knee brace during energy harvesting so as to reduce knee
Heather Lai, Kristina Reid
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Effect of Diatomaceous Biosilica and Talc on the Properties of Dielectric Elastomer Based Composites
Energies, 2020 Currently, scientists are still looking for new polymeric materials characterized by improved mechanical, thermal as well as dielectric properties. Moreover, it should be stressed that new composites should be environmentally friendly.
Ewa Olewnik-Kruszkowska +5 more
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A Review of Dielectric Elastomer Generator Systems [PDF]
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2020 Dielectric elastomer generator systems (DEGSs) are a class of electrostatic soft‐transducers capable of converting oscillating mechanical power from different sources into usable electricity. Over the past years, a diversity of DEGSs has been conceived, integrated, and tested featuring diverse topologies and implementation characteristics tailored on ...
Giacomo Moretti +4 more
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Dielectric elastomer generator with piezoelectric offset
AIP Advances, 2020 In the past studies, dielectric elastomer generators (DEGs) need a high voltage DC power supply to provide an offset voltage, which restricts the application of DEG technology in practical projects.
Jianbo Cao +5 more
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