In conventional classification, soft robots feature mechanical compliance as the main
distinguishing factor from traditional robots made of rigid materials. Recent advances in …

Magnetorheological elastomers (MREs) are a class of recently emerged smart materials
whose moduli are largely influenced when exposed to an external magnetic field. The MREs …

Hard-magnetic soft composites consist of magneto-active polymers (MAPs) where the fillers
are composed of hard-magnetic (magnetically polarised) particles. These novel …

Recently, ferromagnetic soft continuum robots–a type of slender, thread-like robots that can
be steered magnetically–have demonstrated the capability to navigate through the brain's …

Recent advances in magnetorheological elastomers (MREs) have posed the question on
whether the combination of both soft-and hard-magnetic particles may open new routes to …

Hard magnetorheological elastomers (h-MREs) are essentially two phase composites
comprising permanently magnetizable metallic inclusions suspended in a soft elastomeric …

Electro-sensitive (ES) elastomers are “smart materials” whose mechanical properties may
be changed significantly by the application of an electric field. In this paper, we provide a …

The complex magneto-mechanical coupling that governs the material response of
magnetorheological elastomers (MREs) requires computational tools to assist the design …

We first became interested in the interaction between mechanical deformation and magnetic
or electric fields just over 10 years ago. This interest was in part motivated by the …

This work deals with a comprehensive theoretical and numerical framework that allows the
modeling of finite strain magnetorheological elastomers (MREs) comprising mechanically …