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Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2022 Resulting from the restricted size of incisions and confined surgical space, the existing rigid and slender minimally invasive surgery (MIS) instruments are inefficient in providing an optimum articulation to handle certain minimally invasive surgery ...
HaoChen Wang, Saihui Cui, Fuzhou Niu
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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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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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, 2023 8891Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEA) consist of a thin dielectric elastomer film sandwiched between two compliant electrodes. The force and deformation provided by these actuators depend substantially on the electrical and mechanical material ...
Zhang, Qichen +5 more
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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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Artificial Asymmetric Cilia Array of Dielectric Elastomer for Cargo Transportation
, 2018 Inspired by natural ciliary movement, artificial cilia systems have recently been developed to transport microparticles and target biomolecules by the external stimuli-induced bend and twist. However, the directional transportation of cargo meets a major
Yuefeng Wang (2534923) +6 more
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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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Dielectric Spectroscopy of Hybrid Magnetoactive Elastomers [PDF]
Polymers, 2021 Dielectric properties of two series of magnetoactive elastomers (MAEs) based on a soft silicone matrix containing 35 vol% of magnetic particles were studied experimentally in a wide temperature range. In the first series, a hybrid filler representing a mixture of magnetically hard NdFeB particles of irregular shape and an average size of 50 μm and ...
Vitaliy G. Shevchenko +2 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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