Soft-matter composites with electrically tunable elastic rigidity

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Rollable Multisegment Dielectric Elastomer Minimum Energy Structures for a Deployable Microsatellite Gripper (2015, methodology): “Moreover, frames made from casted silicone elastomers or elastomer composites [24] could also be used.”
Controllable and reversible tuning of material rigidity for robot applications (2018, methodology): “Tg) 1350 MPa ( Tg) [26] 120 s [27] 0.5–1 s [26] 80–125 W [26] 0.9–1.1 g/cm3 [25] LMPAs 1.5–40 MPa [28] 0.0952–860 MPa [29] 10–60 s [28] 0.8–2.3 s [28] 130–140 s [29] 0.3–0.7 W [28] 3.6 W [29] 9.7 g/cm3 (Field’s metal) [29] cTPE 1.5–37 MPa [17] 0.7–10.4 MPa [95] N/A 6 s [17] 1 s [95] 0.17–3.3 W [17] ”
Soft Robots Manufacturing: A Review (2018, background): “, 2016) (see Figure 6), tunable stiffness materials (Shan et al., 2013) or actuators (Shintake et al.”
Stiffening in Soft Robotics: A Review of the State of the Art (2016, unknown): “Majidi) [61].”