Soft-matter composites with electrically tunable elastic rigidity

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Shan, Wanliang ^a   Lu, Tong ^a   Majidi, Carmel ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVE ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTOMER COMPOSITES; ELECTRICALLY TUNABLE; MULTI-FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SERPENTINE CHANNEL; SHAPE MEMORY POLYMERS; TENSILE TESTING MACHINES;

CERIUM ALLOYS; ELASTOMERS; GALLIUM ALLOYS; INDIUM ALLOYS; JOULE HEATING; LIQUIDS; MATERIALS TESTING APPARATUS; METALS; PLASTICS; RIGIDITY; SERPENTINE; TENSILE TESTING;

SHEET METAL;

EID: 84881188916     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/22/8/085005     Document Type: Article

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