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Soft Capacitors for Wave Energy Harvesting
, 2011 Wave energy harvesting could be a substantial renewable energy source without impact on the global climate and ecology, yet practical attempts have struggle d with problems of wear and catastrophic failure.
Abel, Markus +4 more
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Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.Deployable medical devices typically need external stimuli to trigger deployment. However, external stimuli are difficult to supply within tissues. Here, we describe a strategy to deploy small‐scale structures into soft tissues after insertion without the need for any stimulus. We demonstrate deployment within a tissue phantom.
Yeh‐Chia Tseng +13 more
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International Journal of Smart and Nano Materials, 2015 Dielectric elastomers are widely investigated as soft electromechanically active polymers (EAPs) for actuators, stretch/force sensors, and mechanical energy harvesters to generate electricity.
Bin Chen +4 more
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Photonic band structure of highly deformable, self-assembling systems
, 2001 We calculate the photonic band structure at normal incidence of highly deformable, self-assembling systems - cholesteric elastomers subjected to external stress.
A. Urbas +20 more
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Active tuning of photonic device characteristics during operation by ferroelectric domain switching [PDF]
, 2007 Ferroelectrics have many unusual properties. Two properties that are often exploited are first, their complex, nonlinear optical response and second, their strong nonlinear coupling between electromagnetic and mechanical fields through the domain ...
Bhattacharya, Kaushik, Dayal, Kaushik
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Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.This review examines how in vitro electrical and mechanical stimulation modulates wound healing in fibroblasts and keratinocytes. Analyzing over 560 experimental data points, we relate stimulation parameters to proliferation and migration outcomes, evaluate platform designs, and highlight the need for multi‐parameter optimization to advance targeted ...
Matthew K. Burgess +3 more
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Compression-induced failure of electro-active polymeric thin films
, 2010 The insurgence of compression induces wrinkling in actuation devices based on EAPs thin films leading to a sudden decrease of performances up to failure.
De Tommasi, Domenico +2 more
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Enhancing the electro-mechanical properties of polydimethylsiloxane elastomers through blending with poly(dimethylsiloxane-co-methylphenylsiloxane) copolymers [PDF]
, 2018 In this work, improved electro-mechanical properties of silicone-based dielectric elastomers are achieved by means of adding so-called “voltage-stabilisers” prepared from phenyl-functional copolymers prepared using oxyanionic ring-opening polymerisation ...
Boucher, Sarah +3 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 +12 more
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Theory progress and applications of dielectric elastomers
International Journal of Smart and Nano Materials, 2013 This paper summarizes the research progress of dielectric elastomer (DE) and its composite materials, including the introduction of materials, theoretical research development, and typical applications.
Liwu Liu, Yanju Liu, Jinsong Leng
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