Silicone elastomers are promising materials for dielectric elastomer transducers (DETs) due
to their superior properties such as high efficiency, reliability and fast response times. DETs …

Elastomers for fabricating soft and stretchable transducers primarily require high elongation
at break, high dielectric permittivity, high breakdown strength and low leakage current …

Progress in the design and modifications of dielectric elastomers has offered numerous
effective techniques to improve their electrically induced actuation response. The actuation …

Currently used dielectric elastomers do not have the ability to self-heal after detrimental
events such as tearing or electrical breakdown, which are critical issues in relation to …

Dielectric elastomer generators (DEGs), which follow the physics of variable capacitors and
harvest electric energy from mechanical work, have attracted intensive attention over the …

For improved actuation at low voltages of dielectric elastomers, a high dielectric permittivity
has been targeted for several years but most successful methods then either increase the …

Silicone rubber (SR) composites exhibited significantly improved electromechanical
properties via tuning the molecular flexibility by adding plasticizer. To decrease the …

There is intense interest in making mechanically stable elastomers with properties
resembling those of human muscles for use in soft robotics. Recently, a …

Traditional silicone elastomers are thermoset polymers with crosslink sites linked through
covalent bonds. The benefits of silicone elastomers would be improved by the ability to …

Supramolecular full silicone networks are built on the basis of siloxane polymers with low
content of amino (6.4 or 9.8 mol%), and carboxyl (14.9 mo%) groups. Alternatively, the …