Soft dielectric elastomers (SDEs) represent a category of intelligent electroactive materials
utilized in electro-mechanical actuation technology. The dynamic performance of these …

Dielectric elastomers (DEs) have been widely used in soft robotics, high-performance
actuators, and bioengineering. However, they may suffer from more failure modes than pure …

The multiplicative decomposition model is widely employed for predicting residual stresses
and morphologies of biological tissues due to growth. However, it relies on the assumption …

Residual stress is ubiquitous and indispensable in most biological and artificial materials,
where it sustains and optimizes many biological and functional mechanisms. The theory of …

Initial residual stress is omnipresent in biological tissues and soft matter, and can affect
growth-induced pattern selection significantly. Here we demonstrate this effect …

Many biological tissues and organisms are in a state of residual stress, which should be
considered rather than ignored as in many previous studies. In this work, we establish a …

The unpredictable rupture of saccular aneurysms especially of the intracerebral aneurysm is
a knotty problem that always results in high mortality. Traditional diagnosis of medical …

Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) belong to an emerging soft actuation technology that
have advantages in large actuation strain. However, the existing single-layer planar DE …