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 …

In recent 20 years, electronic equipment has been develo** rapidly in the direction of light,
miniaturization, flexibility, and integration. It is urgent to meet the needs of matching energy …

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 …

This paper presents a fast rolling soft robot (RSR) driven by dielectric elastomer. Through
novel structure design based on multisegment dielectric elastomer minimum energy …

This paper proposes a free energy model to study the dynamic characteristics of a dielectric
elastomer membrane undergoing in-plane deformation, subject to the combined loads of a …

Natural muscle provides excellent motilities for animals. As the basic unit of the muscle
system, the skeletal muscle fibers function as a soft linear actuator. Inspired by the muscle …

We show that a smooth giant voltage actuation of soft dielectric plates is not easily obtained
in practice. In principle one can exploit, through pre-deformation, the snap-through behavior …

Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) have attracted much interest over the past decades
due to the inherent flexibility, large strain, high efficiency, high energy density, and fast …

The paper presents a Hamiltonian approach for extracting the dynamic instability
parameters of homogeneously deforming dielectric elastomer actuators subjected to an …

The aim of this work is to develop a model to continuously predict inhomogeneous and
homogeneous swelling behavior of temperature-sensitive poly-(N-isopropylacrylamide) …