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• Annual Meeting Abstract   
  Multiscale Advances in Electroelastomers for Energy-Efficient and Controllable Shape Transformation
  Author(s): Richard J Spontak
  
  Dielectric elastomers (DEs) constitute an increasingly important category of electroactive polymers, a class of generally soft materials that, upon exposure to an electric stimulus, respond by changing size and/or shape. Derived from network-forming macromolecules, DEs are lightweight, robust and scalable, and they are furthermore capable of exhibiting giant electroactuation strains, high electromechanical efficiencies and relatively low strain-cycling hysteresis over a broad range of electric fields. Due primarily to their attractive electromechanical attributes, DEs are of growing interest in diverse biomedical, (micro)robotic, and analytical techno.. View More»
  

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