Natural evolution has provided multicellular organisms with sophisticated functionalities and
repair mechanisms for surviving and preserve their functions after an injury and/or infection …

Silicone elastomers are promising materials for dielectric elastomer transducers (DETs) due
to their superior properties such as high efficiency, reliability and fast response times. DETs …

Electro-active polymers (EAPs) are emerging as feasible materials to mimic muscle-like
actuation. Among EAPs, dielectric elastomer (DE) devices are soft or flexible capacitors …

Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) as a typical class of electroactive polymers have been
developed rapidly in the last two decades due to their advantages such as large strain, high …

Dielectric elastomers (DE) suffer from cracks and breaks during repeated cycles, thus a DE
material with both high actuated strain (SA) and self-healing ability is highly desired. Herein …

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 …

Dielectric elastomer transducers (DET) are promising candidates for electrically‐driven soft
robotics. However, the high viscosity and low yield stress of DET formulations prohibit 3D …

Several polydimethylsiloxane elastomers were developed and investigated regarding their
potential use as materials in dielectric elastomer actuators (DEA). A hydroxyl end …

Dielectric elastomer (DE) materials suffer from high driving voltages and cracks or breaks
during repetitive actuation cycles. New DE materials with a simultaneous high dielectric …

Dielectric elastomers (DEs) are a promising new transducer technology, but high driving
voltages limit their current commercial potential. One method used to lower driving voltage is …