Polymer-based dielectrics (PDs) with improved permittivity (k) have considerable
applications including capacitors, actuator devices and electrical power systems due to their …

The rapid advancements of wearable electronics have caused a paradigm shift in consumer
electronics, and the emerging development of stretchable electronics opens a new spectrum …

This paper proposes a novel hybrid piezo-dielectric (PD) wind energy harvester, to efficiently
harvest the vortex-induced vibration (VIV) energy from low-speed wind. The hybrid PD …

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 …

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 …

Scientists are exploring elastic and soft forms of robots, electronic skin and energy
harvesters, dreaming to mimic nature and to enable novel applications in wide fields, from …

A paradigm shift has emerged over the last decade pointing to an exciting research area
dealing with the harnessing of elastic structural instabilities for'smart'purposes in a variety of …

Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) are flexible lightweight actuators that can generate
strains of over 100%. They are used in applications ranging from haptic feedback (mm-sized …

Dielectric elastomer generator systems (DEGSs) are a class of electrostatic soft‐transducers
capable of converting oscillating mechanical power from different sources into usable …

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