Highly stretchable and transparent ionogels as nonvolatile conductors for dielectric elastomer transducers

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 7840-7845

  Chen, Baohong ^a   Lu, Jing Jing ^a   Yang, Can Hui ^a   Yang, Jian Hai ^a   Zhou, Jinxiong ^a   Chen, Yong Mei ^a   Suo, Zhigang ^b  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

dielectric elastomers; ionic liquids; ionogels; stretchable ionic conductors; transparent transducers

Indexed keywords

ELASTOMERS; IONIC LIQUIDS; PLASTICS;

CYCLIC STRETCH; DIELECTRIC ELASTOMER TRANSDUCERS; DIELECTRIC ELASTOMERS; ELECTRO-MECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; IONIC CONDUCTOR; IONOGELS; LARGE AMPLITUDE; LOW ELASTIC MODULUS;

TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84901649658     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am501130t     Document Type: Article

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