Soft robots based on dielectric elastomer actuators: A review

U Gupta, L Qin, Y Wang, H Godaba… - Smart Materials and …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Conventional robots are mainly made of rigid materials, such as steel and aluminum.
Recently there has been a surge in the popularity of soft robots owing to their inherent …

Increasing the performance of dielectric elastomer actuators: A review from the materials perspective

LJ Romasanta, MA López-Manchado… - Progress in Polymer …, 2015 - Elsevier
Electro-active polymers (EAPs) are emerging as feasible materials to mimic muscle-like
actuation. Among EAPs, dielectric elastomer (DE) devices are soft or flexible capacitors …

Flexible and stretchable electrodes for dielectric elastomer actuators

S Rosset, HR Shea - Applied Physics A, 2013 - Springer
Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) are flexible lightweight actuators that can generate
strains of over 100%. They are used in applications ranging from haptic feedback (mm-sized …

Advances in dielectric elastomers for actuators and artificial muscles

P Brochu, Q Pei - Macromolecular rapid communications, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
A number of materials have been explored for their use as artificial muscles. Among these,
dielectric elastomers (DEs) appear to provide the best combination of properties for true …

Recent advances in stretchable and transparent electronic materials

D McCoul, W Hu, M Gao, V Mehta… - Advanced Electronic …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Recent technological advances have made a myriad of soft and flexible electronic devices
possible. The essential materials behind many of these devices and systems are electrical …

Mechanics of dielectric elastomer structures: A review

T Lu, C Ma, T Wang - Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2020 - Elsevier
In the past decade, the development of theory has deeply revealed the electromechanical
coupling deformation mechanism of dielectric elastomer (DE). Many theoretical predictions …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-functional dielectric elastomer artificial muscles for soft and smart machines

IA Anderson, TA Gisby, TG McKay, BM O'Brien… - Journal of applied …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
Dielectric elastomer (DE) actuators are popularly referred to as artificial muscles because
their impressive actuation strain and speed, low density, compliant nature, and silent …

Morphological/nanostructural control toward intrinsically stretchable organic electronics

R Ma, SY Chou, Y Xie, Q Pei - Chemical Society Reviews, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of intrinsically stretchable electronics poses great challenges in
synthesizing elastomeric conductors, semiconductors and dielectric materials. While a wide …

A self-sensing dielectric elastomer actuator

K Jung, KJ Kim, HR Choi - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2008 - Elsevier
A novel self-sensing method based on the dielectric elastomer (DE) actuator/sensor, was
successfully developed and evaluated in order to extract accurate displacement information …

Harnessing large deformation and instabilities of soft dielectrics: Theory, experiment, and application

X Zhao, Q Wang - Applied Physics Reviews, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Widely used as insulators, capacitors, and transducers in daily life, soft dielectrics based on
polymers and polymeric gels play important roles in modern electrified society. Owning to …