A number of materials have been explored for their use as artificial muscles. Among these,
dielectric elastomers (DEs) appear to provide the best combination of properties for true …

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 …

Conventional industrial robots with the rigid actuation technology have made great progress
for humans in the fields of automation assembly and manufacturing. With an increasing …

This paper reviews the developments in dielectric elastomer actuator technology for several
applications. Dielectric elastomers are a variety of electroactive polymer that deform due to …

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

Active soft materials that change shape on demand are of interest for a myriad of
applications, including soft robotics, biomedical devices, and adaptive systems. Despite …

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

Subject to a voltage, a dielectric elastomer (DE) deforms. Voltage‐induced strains of above
100% have been observed when DEs are prestretched, and for DEs of certain network …

In this paper the electromechanical coupling in dielectric elastomer actuators is investigated.
An equation proposed by Pelrine et al.[RE Pelrine, RD Kornbluh, JP Joseph, Electrostriction …

The development of intrinsically stretchable electronics poses great challenges in
synthesizing elastomeric conductors, semiconductors and dielectric materials. While a wide …