Zhigang Suo

TL;DR: In this paper, a model is described which shows that the snap-through instability is markedly affected by both the extension limit of polymer chains and the polarization saturation of dipoles, and the model may guide the search for high-performance dielectric elastomer transducers.

TL;DR: It is reported that kink motion is a universal plastic deformation mode in all carbon nanotubes when being tensile loaded at high temperatures.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe a framework to study the initiation and arrest of an interfacial crack, using a combination of experiment and computation, and introduce a quantity, the initiation energy, to characterize the condition under which the pre-crack initiates the interfacer crack.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors derived equations of state under two assumptions: the amount of solvent in the gel varies when the gel changes volume, but remains constant when the gelatin changes shape, and the Helmholtz free energy of the gel is separable into the contribution due to stretching the network and that due to mixing the polymer and the solvent.

TL;DR: In this paper, a fully organic liquid-crystal device is enabled by ionic conductors, which uses a liquid crystal as a voltage-driven light shutter, an elastomer as a transparent dielectric, and a hydrogel as transparent conductor.