In response to a stimulus, a soft material deforms, and the deformation provides a function.
We call such a material a soft active material (SAM). This review focuses on one class of soft …

Dielectric elastomers (DEs) are a type of multifunctional materials with salient features that
are very attractive in developing soft, lightweight, and small-scale transducers and robotics …

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

One of the most tantalizing applications of piezoelectricity is to harvest energy from ambient
mechanical vibrations for powering micro and nano devices. However, piezoelectricity is …

Dielectric elastomers are active materials that undergo large deformations and change their
instantaneous moduli when they are actuated by electric fields. By virtue of these features …

Dielectric elastomers are capable of large voltage-induced deformation, but achieving such
large deformation in practice has been a major challenge due to electromechanical …

We present a continuum theory for analyzing the interaction between the thermoelectric and
mechanical fields in piezoelectric semiconductors. The balance laws and dissipation …

Two difficulties have long troubled the field theory of dielectric solids. First, when two electric
charges are placed inside a dielectric solid, the force between them is not a measurable …

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 …

Subject to an electric voltage, a layer of a dielectric elastomer reduces its thickness, so that
the voltage induces a high electric field. The positive feedback may cause the elastomer to …