An ionotronic device functions by a hybrid circuit of mobile ions and mobile electrons.
Hydrogels are stretchable, transparent, ionic conductors that can transmit electrical signals …

Future robots and intelligent systems will autonomously navigate in unstructured
environments and closely collaborate with humans; integrated with our bodies and minds …

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 …

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 …

Dielectric elastomer actuators are stretchable capacitors capable of a musclelike actuation
when charged. They will one day be used to replace malfunctioning muscles supposing the …

Freestanding, single-component dielectric actuators are designed based on bottlebrush
elastomers that enable giant reversible strokes at relatively low electric fields and altogether …

Hydrosilylation reactions, the (commonly) anti-Markovnikov additions of silanes to
unsaturated bonds present in compounds such as alkenes and alkynes, offer numerous …

A one‐step process for the synthesis of elastomers with high permittivity, excellent
mechanical properties and increased electromechanical sensitivity is presented. It starts …

Entirely soft robots with animal-like behavior and integrated artificial nervous systems will
open up totally new perspectives and applications. To produce them, we must integrate …