Transparent tunable acoustic absorber membrane using inkjet-printed PEDOT: PSS thin-film compliant electrodes

M Shrestha, Z Lu, GK Lau - ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2018 - ACS Publications
Window glasses can block noise from outdoor, but they reverberate sound within a large
indoor space. Microperforated glass absorbers have been developed to absorb sound over …

Inhibiting electro-thermal breakdown of acrylic dielectric elastomer actuators by dielectric gel coating

TG La, GK Lau - Applied Physics Letters, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Electrical breakdown of dielectric elastomer actuators (DEA) is very localized; a spark and a
pinhole (puncture) in dielectric ends up with short-circuit. This letter shows that prevention of …

Research progress in actuator based on dielectric elastomer

D Yafeng, Z Hongfu, LI Quanlai, LI Jian - China Plastics, 2021 - plaschina.com.cn
To solve the problems of high cost and low energy conversion efficiency of dielectroelastic
actuator, the basic principle of dielectroelastic power generation and the research progress …

Viscoelastic effects on the actuation performance of a dielectric elastomer actuator under different equal, un-equal biaxial pre-stretches

DQ Tran, J Li, F Xuan, T Xiao - Materials Research Express, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Dielectric elastomers (DEs) are belonged to a group of polymers which cause a time-
dependence deformation due to the effect of viscoelastic. In recent years, viscoelasticity has …

基于介电弹性体的驱动器研究进展

邓亚峰, 周洪福, 李全来, 李建 - 中国塑料, 2021 - plaschina.com.cn
针对目前介电弹性体驱动器成本高, 能量转换效率低等问题, 简要介绍了介电弹性体发电的基本
原理及拉伸模式的研究进展, 总结了国内外不同基于介电弹性体驱动器的构型研究进展 …

An electromechanical model for the estimation of breakdown voltage in stretchable dielectric elastomer

X Liu, S Jia, B Li, Y Xing, H Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dielectric elastomer (DE) is capable of large deformation under electrical excitation.
However, DE is susceptible to breakdown failure in this electromechanical actuation. Using …

Stronger multilayer acrylic dielectric elastomer actuators with silicone gel coatings

GK Lau, TG La, ESW Foong… - Smart Materials and …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Multilayer dielectric elastomer actuators (DEA) perform worst off than single-layer DEAs due
to higher susceptibility to electro-thermal breakdown. This paper presents a hot-spot model …

Functional soft robotic actuators based on dielectric elastomers

J Shintake - 2016 - infoscience.epfl.ch
Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) are a promising soft actuator technology for robotics.
Adding robotic functionalities--folding, variable stiffness, and adhesion--into their actuator …

Significantly enhanced electromechanical performance of PDMS crosslinked PVDF hybrids

D He, Y Xie, X Wang, Z Zhang - Polymers, 2018 - mdpi.com
Poly (vinylidene fluoride)-based ferroelectric polymers have large and tunable dielectric
permittivity (ε r), but rather high Young's modulus (Y), which limits its electromechanical …

Enhanced dielectric strength and actuation of acrylic elastomer with silicone gel encapsulation

TG La, GK Lau - Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices …, 2016 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Use of dielectric gel encapsulation is reported to make acrylic elastomer (VHB 4905)
electrically stronger. Acrylic dielectric elastomer actuators (DEA) with silicone gel …