Featured Application The main application area of dielectric elastomers is soft robotics as
muscle-like actuators. Abstract This paper reviews state-of-the-art dielectric elastomer …

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

In the present work, an introduction to the contact phenomena in multibody systems is made.
The different existing approaches are described, together with their most distinctive features …

The study of flexible and stretchable strain sensors is growing rapidly owing to the demands
for human motion detection, human–machine interaction, and soft robotics. However, super …

The high‐fidelity metal additive manufacturing (MAM) processes promote the development
of complex lattice structure designs with tailored physical and mechanical properties …

Dielectric elastomer minimum energy structure (DEMES) formed by clinging a pre-stretched
dielectric elastomer (DE) membrane to the compliant frame possess both material and …

Soft robotics is an emerging field enabled by advances in the development of soft materials
with properties commensurate to their biological counterparts, for the purpose of …

Colloidal material design necessitates a collection of computer approaches ranging from
quantum chemistry to molecular dynamics and continuum modeling. Machine learning (ML) …

In view of their unique shape morphing behaviour, dielectric elastomer-based minimum
energy structures (DEMES) have received an increasing attention in the technology of …

Dielectric Elastomer (DE) devices have gained widespread attention in recent years for their
ability to generate large, reversible strains in response to electric actuation. However, some …