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Recent Advances in Electrospun Nanofibers for Triboelectric Nanogenerators: Performance Enhancement Strategies and Emerging Applications

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review highlights recent advances in electrospun nanofiber‐based triboelectric nanogenerators, emphasizing how material design, fiber architecture, and interface engineering collectively enhance output performance and mechanical durability. Key developments in porous, aligned, core‐shell, and hierarchical nanofibers are discussed alongside ...
MD Fajla Rabbi, Jee Hwan Ahn, Duy Linh Vu, Kyoung Kwan Ahn   +3 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, Ge Xu, Shiju E, Tianfeng Zhao, Zhao Gao, Hanpin Luo   +5 more
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New‐Era Polymer Thermoelectrics: Material Innovations, Doping Frontiers, Decoupling Strategies, and Unconventional Applications

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
The field of polymer thermoelectrics is entering a new era, featuring breakthroughs in addressing the conventional performance disparity between p‐type and n‐type polymers, pioneering doping frontiers, and sophisticated decoupling strategies. This review explores innovations in molecular design and superior stabilities, bridging the gap from ...
Suhao Wang
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The Temperature and Voltage Resistance Performance of Phenyl‐Modified Silicone Elastomers for High‐Voltage and High‐Power Semiconductor Device Encapsulation

High Voltage
Silicon carbide (SiC) high‐voltage, high‐power semiconductor devices are essential for next‐generation power systems, yet conventional silicone elastomer encapsulation materials suffer from insulation degradation under extreme thermal and electrical ...
Dongxin He, Haochen Wang, Yuchao Li, Yue Wang, Qingfa Li, Qingquan Li   +5 more
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Artificial intelligence artificial muscle of dielectric elastomers

Materials & Design
Artificial muscles (AMs), which encompass materials or devices capable of replicating the functions of natural muscles, have garnered significant attention in recent years, driven by the advent of various materials (advanced hydrogels, pneumatic AMs ...
Dongyang Huang, Jiaxuan Ma, Yubing Han, Chang Xue, Mengying Zhang, Weijia Wen, Sheng Sun, Jinbo Wu   +7 more
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Energy harvesting performance of viscoelastic polyacrylic dielectric elastomers

International Journal of Smart and Nano Materials, 2015
Viscoelasticity dissipates the mechanical energy, leading to a reduction of energy conversion efficiency in both dielectric elastomer (DE) actuators and generators.
Junshi Zhang, Yongquan Wang, Hualing Chen, Bo Li   +3 more
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Photonic gaps in cholesteric elastomers under deformation

, 2004
Cholesteric liquid crystal elastomers have interesting and potentially very useful photonic properties. In an ideal monodomain configuration of these materials, one finds a Bragg-reflection of light in a narrow wavelength range and a particular circular ...
A. R. Tajbakhsh, E. M. Terentjev, M. Warner, P. Bermel, P. Cicuta, P.-G. de Gennes, V. Belyakov   +6 more
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Neuromorphic Electronics for Intelligence Everywhere: Emerging Devices, Flexible Platforms, and Scalable System Architectures

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
The perspective presents an integrated view of neuromorphic technologies, from device physics to real‐time applicability, while highlighting the necessity of full‐stack co‐optimization. By outlining practical hardware‐level strategies to exploit device behavior and mitigate non‐idealities, it shows pathways for building efficient, scalable, and ...
Kapil Bhardwaj, Roshni Satheesh Babu, Yuxin Xia, Eva Bestelink, Radu Sporea, Nikos Hastas, Ioannis Zeimpekis, Dimitra G. Georgiadou, Sayani Majumdar   +8 more
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Soft Actuators for Soft Robotic Applications: A Review

Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2020
Soft robotics technologies are paving the way toward robotic abilities which are vital for a wide range of applications, including manufacturing, manipulation, gripping, human–machine interaction, locomotion, and more.
Nazek El-Atab, Rishabh B. Mishra, Fhad Al-Modaf, Lana Joharji, Aljohara A. Alsharif, Haneen Alamoudi, Marlon Diaz, Nadeem Qaiser, Muhammad Mustafa Hussain   +8 more
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Performance of soft dielectric laminated composites

, 2013
This paper contains a thorough investigation of the performance of electrically activated layered soft dielectric composite actuators under plane deformation. Noting that the activation can be induced controlling either the voltage or the surface charge,
Bortot, Eliana, Gei, Massimiliano, Springhetti, Roberta   +2 more
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