The global challenge of clean water scarcity needs to be confronted with novel sustainable,
climate neutral solutions, over the entire spectrum of possible clean water availability …

Silicone rubbers are promising materials that have extensively been used in many areas,
including wearable electronic devices, actuator materials in soft robotics, and energy …

Ultrasensitive and highly stretchable strain sensors based on graphene nanoplatelet (GNP)
doped Ecoflex are proposed. First, the electrical and electromechanical properties are …

Silicone polymers have enormous applications, especially in the areas of biomedical
engineering. Ecoflex, a commercially available room temperature cured silicone polymer …

Ecoflex, a commercially available silicone polymer, has attracted considerable attention due
to its wide range of applications. The polymer has various Shore hardnesses that represent …

The additive manufacturing (AM) is a new paradigm across various disciplines of
engineering sciences. Despite significant advances in the areas of hard material printings …

Skin-like tactile sensors provide robots with rich feedback related to the force distribution
applied to their soft surface. The complexity of interpreting raw tactile information has driven …

Fracture toughness characterizes the ability of a material to maintain a certain level of
strength despite the presence of a macroscopic crack. Understanding this tolerance for …

Silicone implants and scaffolds are emerging as potential replacement of flexible tissues,
cosmetic and biomedical device implants due to their bioinert and flexible characteristics …

Silicone elastomers are extremely attractive materials due to their wide range of possible
applications, from biomedical engineering to soft robotics. In this work, an extensive thermo …