Reconfigurable and Latchable Shape‐Morphing Dielectric Elastomers Based on Local Stiffness Modulation

Materials as Machines

(2020) Joselle M. McCracken et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Bioreactor With Electrically Deformable Curved Membranes for Mechanical Stimulation of Cell Cultures

(2020) Joana Costa et al.   Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology

Reconfigurable shape-morphing dielectric elastomers using spatially varying electric fields

(2019) Ehsan Hajiesmaili et al.   Nature Communications

Recent Progress in Biomimetic Anisotropic Hydrogel Actuators

(2019) Xiaoxia Le et al.   Advanced Science

Emerging Material Technologies for Haptics

(2019) Shantonu Biswas et al.   Advanced Materials Technologies

High-speed mechano-active multielectrode array for investigating rapid stretch effects on cardiac tissue

(2019) Matthias Imboden et al.   Nature Communications

A Magnetically Coupled Dielectric Elastomer Pump for Soft Robotics

(2019) Chongjing Cao et al.   Advanced Materials Technologies

Voltage-controlled morphing of dielectric elastomer circular sheets into conical surfaces

(2019) Ehsan Hajiesmaili et al.   Extreme Mechanics Letters

Soft and Fast Hopping–Running Robot with Speed of Six Times Its Body Length Per Second

(2019) Jianwen Zhao et al.   Soft Robotics

Photothermally and magnetically controlled reconfiguration of polymer composites for soft robotics

(2019) Jessica A.-C. Liu et al.   Science Advances

Controlled flight of a microrobot powered by soft artificial muscles

(2019) Yufeng Chen et al.   NATURE

A multifunctional shape-morphing elastomer with liquid metal inclusions

(2019) Michael J. Ford et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Monolithic shape-programmable dielectric liquid crystal elastomer actuators

(2019) Zoey S. Davidson et al.   Science Advances

An autonomous untethered fast soft robotic insect driven by low-voltage dielectric elastomer actuators

(2019) Xiaobin Ji et al.   Science Robotics

Refreshable Tactile Display Based on a Bistable Electroactive Polymer and a Stretchable Serpentine Joule Heating Electrode

(2018) Yu Qiu et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Controllable and reversible tuning of material rigidity for robot applications

(2018) Liyu Wang et al.   Materials Today

Bioinspired spring origami

(2018) Jakob A. Faber et al.   SCIENCE

Layered liquid crystal elastomer actuators

(2018) Tyler Guin et al.   Nature Communications

Multiple-degrees-of-freedom dielectric elastomer actuators for soft printable hexapod robot

(2017) Canh Toan Nguyen et al.   SENSORS AND ACTUATORS A-PHYSICAL

Voxel resolution in the directed self-assembly of liquid crystal polymer networks and elastomers

(2017) Benjamin A. Kowalski et al.   Soft Matter

Flexible Active Skin: Large Reconfigurable Arrays of Individually Addressed Shape Memory Polymer Actuators

(2017) Nadine Besse et al.   Advanced Materials Technologies

Inflated Soft Actuators with Reversible Stable Deformations

(2016) Lindsey Hines et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Multilayer Dielectric Elastomers for Fast, Programmable Actuation without Prestretch

(2016) Mihai Duduta et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Biomimetic 4D printing

(2016) A. Sydney Gladman et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Shape-programmable magnetic soft matter

(2016) Guo Zhan Lum et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

“ 2D or not 2D”: Shape-programming polymer sheets

(2016) Ying Liu et al.   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

Multifunctional shape memory electrodes for dielectric elastomer actuators enabling high holding force and low-voltage multisegment addressing

(2016) David McCoul et al.   Smart Materials and Structures

Small, fast, and tough: Shrinking down integrated elastomer transducers

(2016) Samuel Rosset et al.   Applied Physics Reviews

Ultrafast All-Polymer Electrically Tunable Silicone Lenses

(2015) Luc Maffli et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Versatile Soft Grippers with Intrinsic Electroadhesion Based on Multifunctional Polymer Actuators

(2015) Jun Shintake et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Dielectric Elastomer Based “Grippers” for Soft Robotics

(2015) Samuel Shian et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Voxelated liquid crystal elastomers

(2015) Taylor H. Ware et al.   SCIENCE

Controllable Surface Haptics via Particle Jamming and Pneumatics

(2015) Andrew A. Stanley et al.   IEEE Transactions on Haptics

Electro-mechanical actuator with muscle memory

(2014) Alexandre Khaldi et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Reversible Bidirectional Shape-Memory Polymers

(2013) Marc Behl et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Tunable lenses using transparent dielectric elastomer actuators

(2013) Samuel Shian et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Self-folding polymeric containers for encapsulation and delivery of drugs

(2012) Rohan Fernandes et al.   ADVANCED DRUG DELIVERY REVIEWS

Bistable Large-Strain Actuation of Interpenetrating Polymer Networks

(2012) Xiaofan Niu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Dielectric elastomer actuators under equal-biaxial forces, uniaxial forces, and uniaxial constraint of stiff fibers

(2012) Tongqing Lu et al.   Soft Matter

The state of understanding of ionic polymer metal composite architecture: a review

(2011) R Tiwari et al.   Smart Materials and Structures

Self-folding of polymer sheets using local light absorption

(2011) Ying Liu et al.   Soft Matter

Harnessing snap-through instability in soft dielectrics to achieve giant voltage-triggered deformation

(2011) Christoph Keplinger et al.   Soft Matter

Multifunctional Shape-Memory Polymers

(2010) Marc Behl et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Programmable matter by folding

(2010) E. Hawkes et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Electroactive Elastomeric Actuator for All-Polymer Linear Peristaltic Pumps

(2009) Federico Carpi et al.   IEEE-ASME TRANSACTIONS ON MECHATRONICS