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AIP Advances, 2020 Dielectric elastomers can generate large voltage-induced deformation and have been widely used as soft actuators. Dielectric elastomer multilayer structures function as bending-type actuators, enhancing their stiffness and ability to resist external ...
Fanghao Zhou +5 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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Fabrication and characterization of nanometer thin films for low-voltage DEAs [PDF]
, 2016 Nanometer-thin films are the essential components of a low-voltage dielectric elastomer actuator (DEA). Comprising of two electrodes sandwiching a dielectric elastomeric material DEAs have evoked versatile materials research.
Weiss, Florian
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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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Electromechanical coupled deformation analysis of a hyper-elastic dielectric membrane under combined pressure and electric loading [PDF]
EPJ Web of ConferencesDielectric elastomers are soft, lightweight, and highly deformable electroactive polymers that undergo large deformations when subjected to mechanical and electrical loading.
Kumar Nirmal +2 more
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Fractal and Fractional, 2022 Actuators made of dielectric elastomers are used in soft robotics for a variety of applications. However, due to their mechanical properties, they exhibit viscoelastic behaviour, especially in the initial phase of their performance, which can be observed
Timi Karner, Rok Belšak, Janez Gotlih
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Dielectric elastomer actuators with enhanced permittivity and strain
, 2022 Paper 79762JThe impact of the modification of silicone rubber with barium titanate particles on the permittivity and hence on the performance of dielectric elastomer actuators has been investigated.
Schlaak, H. +3 more
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Soft, tough, and fast polyacrylate dielectric elastomer for non-magnetic motor
Nature Communications, 2021 Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) with large electrically actuated strain can be used in non-magnetic motors, but high stiffness, poor strength and slow response currently limit the application of DEAs.
Li-Juan Yin +7 more
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High-performance dielectric elastomer unimorph bending actuators without pre-stretch
, 2023 Dielectric elastomer (DE) single films for bending actuators are normally used with pre-stretch to increase the performance of the actuation. However, pre-stretch requires a high effort in the production of the actuators.
Ehrlich, Johannes +2 more
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Nano Select, 2023 Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) are one of the emerging areas of investigation in smart elastomer research and have attracted considerable interests due to their wide‐ranging applications, for instance in automation and soft robotic components ...
Jishnu Nirmala Suresh +6 more
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