...Fanghao Zhou; Jin He; Mingqi Zhang; Youhua Xiao; Zheng Chen; Tuck-Whye Wong; Tiefeng Li; Zhongbin Xu; Yingwu Luo Dielectric elastomer (DE) possesses attributes such as large deformation and fast response. As a typical DE actuating structure, the multilayered DE bending actuator (MDEBA...

...Guoyong Mao; Wei Hong; Martin Kaltenbrunner; Shaoxing Qu Dielectric elastomer (DE) actuators are deformable capacitors capable of a muscle-like actuation when charged. When subjected to voltage, DE membranes coated with compliant electrodes may form wrinkles due to the Maxwell stress. Here, we...

...Baohong Chen; Wenjie Sun; Jingjing Lu; Jianhai Yang; Yongmei Chen; Jinxiong Zhou; Zhigang Suo We describe the materials, design, experimental measurements, and simulations of a bio-inspired all-solid tunable optical device: ionic eye. A dielectric elastomer functions as an electroactive material...

...Jinrong Li; Xiongfei Lv; Liwu Liu; Yanju Liu; Jinsong Leng Inspired by the accommodation mechanism of the human eye, several soft tunable lenses have been fabricated and demonstrated the capability of controllable focus tuning. This paper presents a computational model of a dielectric elastomer...

...Mingqi Zhang; Xunuo Cao; Xiangping Chen; Zhen Zhang; Zheng Chen; Tiefeng Li Dielectric elastomers (DEs) is one of the promising artificial muscle for soft robots and flexible devices. As one of the key issues for practical applications, the control of DE actuators remains challenging due...

... Dynamics ,” Eur. Phys. J. B , 10 , pp. 345 – 351 . 10.1007/s100510050863 [6] Koh , S. J. A. , Li , T. , Zhou , J. , Zhao , X. , Hong , W. , Zhu , J. , and Suo , Z. , 2011 , “ Mechanisms of Large Actuation Strain in Dielectric Elastomers ,” J. Polym. Sci. B , 49 , pp...

...Nakhiah Goulbourne; Eric Mockensturm; Mary Frecker The material and geometrical nonlinearities of novel dielectric elastomer actuators make them more difficult to model than linear materials used in traditional actuators. To accurately model dielectric elastomers, a comprehensive mathematical...