Dielectric Elastomers: From the Beginning of Modern Science to Applications in Actuators and Energy Harvesters
Electrically deformable materials have a long history, with first quotations in a letter from Alessandro Volta. The topic turned out to be hot at the end of the 19th century, with a landmark paper of Röntgen anticipating the dielectric elastomer principle. In 2000, Pelrine and co-workers generated huge interest in such soft actuators, by demonstrating voltage induced huge area expansion rates of more than 300%. Since then, the field became mature, with first commercial applications appearing on the market. New frontiers also emerged recently, for example by using dielectric transducers in a reverse mode for scavenging mechanical energy. In the present survey we briefly discuss the latest developments in the field.
| Author(s): | Richard Baumgartner and Christoph Keplinger and Rainer Kaltseis and Reinhard Schwödiauer and Siegfried Bauer |
| Book Title: | Proceedings of the SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring conference |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Bibtex Type: | Conference Paper (inproceedings) |
| Address: | San Diego, USA |
| DOI: | 10.1117/12.880289 |
| State: | Published |
| Electronic Archiving: | grant_archive |
BibTex
@inproceedings{Keplinger11-EAPAD-Applications,
title = {Dielectric Elastomers: From the Beginning of Modern Science to Applications in Actuators and Energy Harvesters},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring conference},
abstract = {Electrically deformable materials have a long history, with first quotations in a letter from Alessandro Volta. The topic turned out to be hot at the end of the 19th century, with a landmark paper of Röntgen anticipating the dielectric elastomer principle. In 2000, Pelrine and co-workers generated huge interest in such soft actuators, by demonstrating voltage induced huge area expansion rates of more than 300%. Since then, the field became mature, with first commercial applications appearing on the market. New frontiers also emerged recently, for example by using dielectric transducers in a reverse mode for scavenging mechanical energy. In the present survey we briefly discuss the latest developments in the field.},
address = {San Diego, USA},
year = {2011},
slug = {keplinger11-eapad-applications},
author = {Baumgartner, Richard and Keplinger, Christoph and Kaltseis, Rainer and Schw{\"o}diauer, Reinhard and Bauer, Siegfried}
}