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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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A Staggered Explicit-Implicit Finite Element Formulation for Electroactive Polymers
, 2018 Electroactive polymers such as dielectric elastomers (DEs) have attracted significant attention in recent years. Computational techniques to solve the coupled electromechanical system of equations for this class of materials have universally centered ...
Park, Harold S. +2 more
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Modeling of butterfly-shaped hysteresis in dielectric elastomer actuators
AIP Advances, 2021 Dielectric elastomer actuators exhibit butterfly-shaped hysteresis effects under unbiased periodic input signals. In comparison with single hysteresis effects, butterfly-shaped hysteresis effects are more complicated, which include two single hysteresis ...
Hongzhi Xu +3 more
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Cyclic performance of viscoelastic dielectric elastomers with solid hydrogel electrodes [PDF]
, 2015 Hydrogels containing electrolyte can work as ionic conductors to actuate dielectric elastomer (DE) artificial muscles. Based on a popular design of a circular actuator, we study theoretically and experimentally the cyclic performance of acrylic DE ...
Bai, Yuanyuan +8 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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Bio‐Inspired Molecular Events in Poly(Ionic Liquids)
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Originating from dipolar and polar inter‐ and intra‐chain interactions of the building blocks, the topologies and morphologies of poly(ionic liquids) (PIL) govern their nano‐ and micro‐processibility. Modulating the interactions of cation‐anion pairs with aliphatic dipolar components enables the tunability of properties, facilitated by “bottom‐up ...
Jiahui Liu, Marek W. Urban
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On the failure modes and maximum stretch of circular dielectric elastomer actuators
Materials Research Express, 2020 Dielectric elastomer actuators have been widely studied theoretically and experimentally thanks to its superior attributes such as large deformation.
Zezhou Li +4 more
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Actuators, 2022 An actuator built with flexible material has the advantage of smaller size and can withstand certain collisions better than actuators with rigid material.
Haiqiang Liu +4 more
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Monolithic shape-programmable dielectric liquid crystal elastomer actuators
, 2019 Macroscale robotic systems have demonstrated great capabilities of high speed, precise, and agile functions. However, the ability of soft robots to perform complex tasks, especially in centimeter and millimeter scale, remains limited due to the ...
Aghakhani, Amirreza +7 more
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Highly Stretchable and Transparent Ionogels as Nonvolatile Conductors for Dielectric Elastomer Transducers [PDF]
, 2014 Large deformation of soft materials is harnessed to provide functions in the nascent field of soft machines. This paper describes a new class of systems enabled by highly stretchable, transparent, stable ionogels. We synthesize an ionogel by polymerizing
Chen, Baohong +6 more
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