Cyclic performance of viscoelastic dielectric elastomers with solid hydrogel electrodes

Yuanyuan Bai; Yanhui Jiang; Baohong Chen; Choon Chiang Foo; Yongcun Zhou; Feng Xiang; Jinxiong Zhou; Hong Wang; Zhigang Suo

doi:10.1063/1.4865200

Cyclic performance of viscoelastic dielectric elastomers with solid hydrogel electrodes

Yuanyuan Bai
, Yanhui Jiang
, Baohong Chen
, Choon Chiang Foo
, Yongcun Zhou
, Feng Xiang
, Jinxiong Zhou
, Hong Wang
, Zhigang Suo

School of Aerospace Engineering

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Abstract

Hydrogels containing electrolyte can work as ionic conductors to actuate dielectric elastomer (DE) artificial muscles. Based on a popular design of a circular actuator, we study theoretically and experimentally the cyclic performance of acrylic DE actuators with solid hydrogel electrodes. The viscoelasticity of solid electrodes constrains the maximum strain that is attainable for one cycle of triangular voltage, and it also diminishes the accumulated increment of the maximum strain after many cycles of loadings.

Original language	English
Article number	062902
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	104
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4865200
State	Published - 2 Oct 2014

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