Alae El Haitami

TL;DR: This work used low-voltage stacked DEAs with an operating voltage below 450 volts and used them to propel an insect-sized soft untethered and autonomous legged robot to develop a subgram robot capable of autonomous navigation, independently following printed paths.

TL;DR: The silicone‐based DEA membrane is mechanically transparent, enabling wearable haptics for the many applications where hand dexterity is critical, and can be placed in array format anywhere on the body.

TL;DR: It is found that chaotropic anions lead to larger thickness increments per bilayer during the film buildup than cosmotropic ones, confirming results found on PSS/PDADMA multilayers, and that a film constructed in the presence of chaotropicAnions swells and becomes more permeable to Fe(CN)(6)4- ions when the film is brought into contact with a solution containing more cosMotropic anions.

TL;DR: A model based on the diffusion ofCu(II) and Cu(I) ions through the film and the dynamics of the polyelectrolyte anchoring on the film, during the reduction period of Cu(II), is proposed to explain the major buildup features.

TL;DR: In this article, a multiwalled carbon nanotube/poly(alkylthiophene) composite is developed as the electrodes for dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) using the Langmuir-Schaefer (LS) method.