Dielectric elastomers as electromechanical transducers: Fundamentals, Materials, Devices, Models and Applications of an Emerging Electroactive Polymer Technology

By Federico Carpi, Danilo de Rossi, Roy Kornbluh, Ron Pelrine. 2008

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering

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• Resonant behavior of a membrane of a dielectric elastomer (2010, background): “In many potential commercial applications (say, Universal Muscle Actuators in AMI), the dielec- tric elastomers have inhomogeneous deformations (Bonwit et al., 2006; Carpi et al., 2008; He et al., 2009).”
• Modeling of dielectric elastomers: Design of actuators and energy harvesting devices (2013, background): “…were first reported by Pelrine and coworkers (Pelrine et al., 1998, 2000a,b; Kornbluh et al., 2000) and have since then garnered interest as electromechanical transducers for a wide variety of applications (Carpi et al., 2008), such as robotics, biomedical engineering and energy harvesting.”
• Soft Robotic Grippers (2018, background): “Additionally, their electromechanical efficiency can theoretically reach 90%.([159]) Thanks to the simplicity of their working principle, DEAs have been shaped into numerous actuator configurations, applied to diverse devices and robots.”
• Modeling Viscoelastic Dielectrics (2011, background): “Among various types of electroactive polymers, dielectric elastomers are known for their ease of use, high coupling efficiency, light weight, cost effectiveness, and large scope of applications (Kornbluh et al., 1995; Pelrine et al., 1998; Carpi et al., 2008).”
• From boots to buoys: promises and challenges of dielectric elastomer energy harvesting (2011, background): “In fact, because of this dual nature, a dielectric elastomer can also function as a variable stiffness device.(7)”
• Standards for dielectric elastomer transducers (2015, background): “The term ‘dielectric elastomer’ (DE) is widely accepted as the reference definition of the EAP class concerned here, i.e. a family of electrically insulating elastomeric materials (Carpi et al. 2008).”