Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

Reconfigurable shape-morphing dielectric elastomers using spatially varying electric fields

  • Ehsan Hajiesmaili,
  • David R. Clarke

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08094-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Electric fields can produce strains in soft elastomers but a generalizable method for changing the Gaussian curvature has not been devised. Here the authors demonstrate voltage-tunable shape morphing using a spatially inhomogeneous electric field generated by electrodes incorporated between elastomer layers.