Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "dielectric elastomers"
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Highly deformable actuators made of dielectric elastomers clamped by rigid rings
(AIP Publishing, 2014)In the nascent field of soft machines, soft materials are used to create devices that actuate robots, sense environment, monitor health, and harvest energy. The soft materials undergo large deformation in response to ... -
Highly Stretchable and Transparent Ionogels as Nonvolatile Conductors for Dielectric Elastomer Transducers
(American Chemical Society (ACS), 2014)Large deformation of soft materials is harnessed to provide functions in the nascent field of soft machines. This paper describes a new class of systems enabled by highly stretchable, transparent, stable ionogels. We ... -
Optimizing the Electrical Energy Conversion Cycle of Dielectric Elastomer Generators
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The Thickness and Stretch Dependence of the Electrical Breakdown Strength of an Acrylic Dielectric Elastomer
(American Institute of Physics, 2012)The performance of dielectric elastomer actuators is limited by electrical breakdown. Attempts to measure this are confounded by the voltage-induced thinning of the elastomer. A test configuration is introduced that avoids ...