In the last few years, it has been recognized that the large deformation capacity of
elastomeric materials that are sensitive to electric fields can be harnessed for use in …

The basic modern theory of nonlinear electroelasticity and its use in the formulation of
constitutive laws governing the behaviour of dielectric elastomer materials was summarized …

Dielectric elastomers are capable of large voltage-induced deformation, but achieving such
large deformation in practice has been a major challenge due to electromechanical …

Rapid energy‐efficient movements are one of nature's greatest developments. Mechanisms
like snap‐buckling allow plants like the Venus flytrap to close the terminal lobes of their …

Low-order, explicit models of lithium ion cells are critical for real-time battery management
system (BMS) applications. This paper presents a seventh-order, electrolyte enhanced …

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 …

Designing smart devices with tunable shapes has important applications in industrial
manufacture. In this paper, we investigate the nonlinear deformation and the morphological …

In view of their unique shape morphing behaviour, dielectric elastomer-based minimum
energy structures (DEMES) have received an increasing attention in the technology of …

Actuation devices made of smart polymers typically show various instabilities, which can
adversely affect their performance and lead to device failure. In general, smart polymers …

This paper presents a novel engineering strategy for the design of Dielectric Elastomer (DE)
based actuators, capable of attaining complex electrically induced shape morphing …