Flexible hybrid sensors for health monitoring: materials and mechanisms to render wearability

Y Gao, L Yu, JC Yeo, CT Lim - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Wearable electronics have revolutionized the way physiological parameters are sensed,
detected, and monitored. In recent years, advances in flexible and stretchable hybrid …

Low‐voltage soft actuators for interactive human–machine interfaces

S Chen, MWM Tan, X Gong… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Soft electrical actuators driven by low voltages are promising for interactive human–machine
interfaces (iHMI) applications including executing orders to complete various tasks and …

Skin‐Mountable Vibrotactile Stimulator Based on Laterally Multilayered Dielectric Elastomer Actuators

J Son, S Lee, GY Bae, G Lee… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Skin‐stimulation technology has attracted intense attention for virtual/augmented reality
applications and tactile‐feedback systems. However, bulky, heavy, and stiff characteristics of …

Silicone dielectric elastomer with improved actuated strain at low electric field and high self-healing efficiency by constructing supramolecular network

H Sun, X Liu, S Liu, B Yu, N Ning, M Tian… - Chemical Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
Dielectric elastomers (DE) suffer from cracks and breaks during repeated cycles, thus a DE
material with both high actuated strain (SA) and self-healing ability is highly desired. Herein …

A supramolecular silicone dielectric elastomer with a high dielectric constant and fast and highly efficient self-healing under mild conditions

H Sun, X Liu, S Liu, B Yu, N Ning, M Tian… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Dielectric elastomer (DE) materials suffer from high driving voltages and cracks or breaks
during repetitive actuation cycles. New DE materials with a simultaneous high dielectric …

Anisotropic electroactive elastomer for highly maneuverable soft robotics

Y Xiao, J Mao, Y Shan, T Yang, Z Chen, F Zhou, J He… - Nanoscale, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Dielectric elastomers (DEs) are promising electroactive artificial muscles for use in soft
machines. However, achieving anisotropy and sub-kV actuation voltage remains a great …

High-Performance Block-Copolymer-Based Dielectric Elastomers with Enhanced Mechanical Properties

RR de Sousa Jr, JB Sacramento… - ACS Applied Polymer …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Thermoplastic elastomer gels have been highlighted in recent years due to their highly
tunable properties, becoming interesting electroactive polymers for the fabrication of …

Ultrasoft-yet-strong pentablock copolymer as dielectric elastomer highly responsive to low voltages

Z Chen, Y Xiao, J Fang, J He, Y Gao, J Zhao… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
Electrically active dielectric elastomer has been a leading technology for artificial muscle. It
remains a great challenge to significantly reduce the actuation voltage down to far lower …

A rigid thick Miura-Ori structure driven by bistable carbon fibre-reinforced polymer cylindrical shell

Z Zhang, W Ma, H Wu, H Wu, S Jiang, G Chai - Composites Science and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Origami, the art of folding paper, has inspired the development of rigid foldable structures for
various applications in aerospace, biomedical, and packaging applications. In order to drive …

Antibacterial activity of three essential oils and some monoterpenes against Ralstonia solanacearum phylotype II isolated from potato

AA Mohamed, SI Behiry, HA Younes, NA Ashmawy… - Microbial …, 2019 - Elsevier
The present study describes the possibility of using some essential oils and monoterpens as
bioagents against the growth of Ralstonia solanacearum, a causal bacterium of potato …