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

Soft robotics requires materials that are capable of large deformation and amenable to
actuation with external stimuli such as electric fields. Energy harvesting, biomedical devices …

Materials that generate electrical signals upon exposure to a well-controlled stimuli are high
desirable. In that context, magnetoelectrics are unusual in the sense that the stimulus may …

Different from natural living systems that constantly evolve to adapt to the changing
environment, most engineering materials are static in both form and function. The living …

This work provides a rigorous analysis of the effective response, ie, average magnetization
and magnetostriction, of magnetoelastic composites that are subjected to overall magnetic …

Nowadays, shape memory polymers (SMPs)-based devices are required to be much
smarter to produce large shape memory recovery and recovery force with lower working …

We analyze small amplitude shear waves (SWs) propagating in dielectric elastomer (DE)
laminates subjected to finite deformations and electrostatic excitations. First, we derive long …

Re-chargeable batteries are an important element in the solution to the future of portable
energy storage. In that context, electrolytes play a critical role in the adjudication of a …

Polymer network models construct the constitutive relationships of a broader polymer
network from the behavior of a single polymer chain (eg viscoelastic response to applied …

A gel is formed when a polymer network is submerged in a solvent. The solvent molecules
penetrate the network and cause the network to swell. In this paper we propose a …