Enhancing the Electromechanical Coupling in Soft Energy Harvesters by Using Graded Dielectric Elastomers. [PDF]
Micromachines (Basel), 2021 Soft dielectric elastomers can quickly achieve large deformations when they are subjected to electromechanical loads. They are widely used to fabricate a number of soft functional devices. However, the functions of soft devices are limited to the failure
Chen L, Yang S.
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Degradation patterns of silicone-based dielectric elastomers in electrical fields
International Journal of Smart and Nano Materials, 2018 Silicone elastomers have been heavily investigated as candidates for the flexible insulator material in dielectric elastomer transducers and are as such almost ideal candidates because of their inherent softness and compliance.
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A self healable dielectric elastomer artificial muscle. [PDF]
Nat CommunDielectric elastomers are soft electroactive polymers capable of large-strain actuation with the moniker artificial muscle. However, current dielectric elastomers exhibit limited operational stability when operated at strain and energy density in the ...
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The rate dependence of the dielectric strength of dielectric elastomers
International Journal of Smart and Nano MaterialsElastomers are widely used in electronics and electrical devices, either as insulators or transducers. The insulation and actuation performance of elastomers are highly susceptible to their dielectric strength.
Pan Jia
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Crosslinking Methodology for Imidazole-Grafted Silicone Elastomers Allowing for Dielectric Elastomers Operated at Low Electrical Fields with High Strains [PDF]
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2022 Yi Nie, Liyun Yu, Anne Ladegaard Skov
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Artificial Muscles: Electrostatic Actuation and Design Tradeoffs. [PDF]
Biomimetics (Basel)Artificial muscles are an emerging class of actuators designed to mimic the compliant, efficient, and versatile behavior of biological muscles for fields including the following: soft robotics, prosthetics, wearable enhancements, haptic interfaces, and ...
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Engineering Science and Technology, an International Journal, 2021 Dielectric elastomers (DEs) are electroactive polymers that could be used as soft actuators, stretchable generators and sensors. Their performance is dependent on both their mechanical and dielectric properties.
Ajeet Kumar, Karali Patra
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Enhancement of dielectric permittivity by incorporating PDMS-PEG multiblock copolymers in silicone elastomers†[PDF]
RSC Advances, 2015 A silicone elastomer from PDMS-PEG multiblock copolymer has been prepared by use of silylation reactions for both copolymer preparation and crosslinking.
Aliff Hisyam A. Razak +2 more
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Dynamic variation of the dielectric permittivity of elastomers with mechanical constraints
AIP Advances, 2023 Elastomers are commonly used as insulators or actuators in important fields such as robotics and electronics. The performance of elastomers is strongly influenced by their dielectric permittivity while determining the dielectric permittivity of ...
Pan Jia, Xianghe Zheng, Jianyou Zhou
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Dielectric elastomers, with very high dielectric permittivity, based on silicone and ionic interpenetrating networks [PDF]
RSC Advances, 2015 Dielectric elastomers (DEs), which represent an emerging actuator and generator technology, admittedly have many favourable properties, but their high driving voltages are one of the main obstacles to commercialisation.
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