Self-Healing, High-Permittivity Silicone Dielectric Elastomer

Self-stabilizing Dielectric Elastomer Generators

Dielectric Elastomer Generators (DEGs) are an emerging technology for the conversion of mechanical into electrical energy. Despite many advantageous characteristics, there are still issues to overcome, including the need for charging at every cycle to produce an electrical output. Self-priming Circuits (SPCs) are one possible solution, storing part of the electric energy output of one cycle to ...

Fabrication Process of Silicone-based Dielectric Elastomer Actuators

This contribution demonstrates the fabrication process of dielectric elastomer transducers (DETs). DETs are stretchable capacitors consisting of an elastomeric dielectric membrane sandwiched between two compliant electrodes. The large actuation strains of these transducers when used as actuators (over 300% area strain) and their soft and compliant nature has been exploited for a wide range of a...

A new soft dielectric silicone elastomer matrix with high mechanical integrity and low

Dielectric Elastomers Conductive Elastomer Insulating Elastomer

High strain rate compressive behaviour of a Silicone Elastomer

The high strain rate compressive behaviour of a Silicone elastomer: Sylgard 184® is presented. Experiments were performed over strain rates between 3000 and 15,000 s -1 , and temperatures between -40 and +73 oC, corresponding to environmental conditions in many industrial applications. An Ogden strain energy density function was fit to the data, and the strain rate and temperature dependence of...