With the increasing demand for clean and sustainable energy, self-powered technologies
based on environmental vibrations have attracted a lot of attention recently. Natural vibration …

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 …

Dielectric elastomer transducers consist of thin electrically insulating elastomeric
membranes coated on both sides with compliant electrodes. They are a promising …

Dielectric elastomer (DE) actuators are popularly referred to as artificial muscles because
their impressive actuation strain and speed, low density, compliant nature, and silent …

Dielectric elastomers are being developed as generators to harvest energy from renewable
sources, such as human movements and ocean waves. We model a generator as a system …

Dielectric elastomer generators (DEGs) for harvesting electrical energy from mechanical
work have been demonstrated but the energy densities achieved are still small compared …

The development of intrinsically stretchable electronics poses great challenges in
synthesizing elastomeric conductors, semiconductors and dielectric materials. While a wide …

Abstract Dielectric Elastomer Generator (DEG) has been used to harvest energy from
reciprocating mechanical motion due to its variable capacitance under tension, and thus it …

The potential to produce light-weight, low-cost, wearable dielectric elastomer generators has
been limited by the requirement for bulky rigid, and expensive external circuitry. In this letter …

Clean, renewable and abundant sources of energy, such as the vast energy of ocean
waves, are untapped today, because no technology exists to convert such mechanical …