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Polymer Substrates for Flexible Sensors: Advances and Contributions to Smart Agriculture

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review comprehensively summarizes recent advances in polymer‐based flexible sensors for smart agriculture, focusing on polymer substrate design, interface engineering, and applications in soil, plant, animal, aquaculture, and post‐harvest monitoring.
Yihui Li, Zhangzheng Xiao, Zheng Yan, Adnan Raza Altaf, Qun Song, Dingding Yao, Afshan Sohail, Yixin Wang, Wenxiu Ma, Shanjun Li, Yaohui Chen, Peiwen Liu, Kai Zhang   +12 more
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Electromechanical coupled deformation analysis of a hyper-elastic dielectric membrane under combined pressure and electric loading [PDF]

EPJ Web of Conferences
Dielectric elastomers are soft, lightweight, and highly deformable electroactive polymers that undergo large deformations when subjected to mechanical and electrical loading.
Kumar Nirmal, Kumar Srivastava Arpit, Sharma Arun   +2 more
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Soft Actuators and Robotic Devices for Rehabilitation and Assistance

Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2022
Soft actuators and robotic devices have been increasingly applied to the field of rehabilitation and assistance, where safe human and machine interaction is of particular importance.
Min Pan, Chenggang Yuan, Xianrong Liang, Tianyun Dong, Tao Liu, Junhui Zhang, Jun Zou, Huayong Yang, Chris Bowen   +8 more
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Self-stabilizing dielectric elastomer generators [PDF]

Smart Materials and Structures, 2017
Dielectric elastomer generators (DEGs) are an emerging technology for the conversion of mechanical into electrical energy. Despite many advantageous characteristics, there are still issues to overcome, including the need for charging at every cycle to produce an electrical output.
P Zanini, J Rossiter, M Homer
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Biomimetic Vascular Scaffold with Seamless Electrospun Aligned Nanofiber Conduit and 3D‐Printed Coil Reinforcement

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
We introduce a new fabrication method that overcomes the current limitation of tubular gap electrospinning. We successfully fabricated a seamless hollow tube with fibers aligned along the longitudinal axis in diameters as small as 300 µm, and then reinforced it using 4‐axis 3D printing.
Seyed Aliakbar Hosseini Toopghara, Young‐Ook Hwang, In A Kim, Che‐I Hyun, Hochung Ryu, Won‐Jae Kim, Jeong‐Tae Koh, Hyun‐Pil Lim, Jin‐Ho Kang, Sang‐Won Park   +9 more
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Research of dielectric elastomer actuator parameters for an active vibration insulation system

Вестник Самарского университета: Аэрокосмическая техника, технологии и машиностроение
One of the ways of improving the characteristics of technological and analytical equipment is an application of “smart” materials, among which dielectric elastomers are promising due to their low elastic modulus and its high effect of internal vibration ...
A. M. Bazinenkov, V. S. Shcherbakova, S. V. Sidorova, A. D. Kuptsov, A. A. Felde   +4 more
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High temperature vulcanized ethylene propylene diene rubber nanocomposites as high voltage insulators: Dielectric breakdown measurements and evaluation

Polymers and Polymer Composites, 2022
The use of porcelain and thermoplastic based materials as High voltage insulators has always been dominant in the industry. Several elastomers were also investigated, mainly Ethylene Propylene Rubber and Silicone rubbers were used as replacement of the ...
Ahmed I Abou-Kandil, Loai Nasrat, Eman L. Fareed   +2 more
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Dielectric Elastomer Cooperative Microactuator Systems—DECMAS

Actuators, 2023
This paper presents results of the first phase of “Dielectric Elastomer Cooperative Microactuator Systems” (DECMAS), a project within the German Research Foundation Priority Program 2206, “Cooperative Multistable Multistage Microactuator Systems” (KOMMMA)
Stefan Seelecke, Julian Neu, Sipontina Croce, Jonas Hubertus, Günter Schultes, Gianluca Rizzello   +5 more
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Bioinspired Adaptive Sensors: A Review on Current Developments in Theory and Application

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review comprehensively summarizes the recent progress in the design and fabrication of sensory‐adaptation‐inspired devices and highlights their valuable applications in electronic skin, wearable electronics, and machine vision. The existing challenges and future directions are addressed in aspects such as device performance optimization ...
Guodong Gong, You Zhou, Qingxiu Li, Wenyu Zhao, Sunyingyue Geng, Hangfei Li, Yan‐Bing Leng, Shirui Zhu, Guanglong Ding, Yongbiao Zhai, Ziyu Lv, Ye Zhou, Su‐Ting Han   +12 more
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Synthesis and Self‐Assembly of Diborate Ester Polymers for Dielectric Elastomer Actuators

Small Structures
Inorganic nanoparticles have been widely used as fillers to modify dielectric elastomers to simultaneously improve mechanical and dielectric performances. Elegant interface design is crucial for achieving synergy between fillers and elastomers.
Chunying Yang, Zhenwu Lu, Juguo Dai, Wenkang Wei, Yu Luo, Xiaohong Wang, Xiaohui Liu, Siyu Yang, Yiting Xu, Conghui Yuan, Lizong Dai   +10 more
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