For decades, the revolution in design and fabrication methodology of flexible capacitive
pressure sensors using various inorganic/organic materials has significantly enhanced the …

In the past decade, the development of theory has deeply revealed the electromechanical
coupling deformation mechanism of dielectric elastomer (DE). Many theoretical predictions …

A soft robot employing dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) exhibits a flexible body and
dexterity locomotion in unstructured environments. However, conventional power supplies …

Thin dielectric elastomers with compliant electrodes can experience two types of instability:
wrinkling, which occurs to relax in-plane compressive stresses through out-of-plane …

This work presents a finite element framework for simulating the quasi-static response of
dielectric elastomer-based minimum energy structure (DEMES). The DEMES is an actuator …

The equi-biaxially pre-strained circular dielectric elastomer actuator (PCDEA) is a classical
actuator configuration to demonstrate the electromechanical deformation mechanism of …

Progress in the design and modifications of dielectric elastomers has offered numerous
effective techniques to improve their electrically induced actuation response. The actuation …

Electrochromic devices have seen widespread adoption in the automotive and aerospace
industries and are increasingly considered for applications in the built environment, such as …

Soft materials, such as liquids, polymers, foams, gels, colloids, granular materials, and most
soft biological materials, play an important role in our daily lives. From a mechanical …

Soft elastomers that can exhibit extremely large deformations under the action of an electric
field are essential for applications such as soft robotics, stretchable and flexible electronics …