Abstract: Soft materials, such as liquids, polymers, foams, gels, colloids, granular materials, and most soft biological materials, play an important role in our daily lives. From a mechanical viewpoint, soft materials can easily ...

Abstract: Development of soft electromechanical materials is critical for several tantalizing applications such as human-like robots, stretchable electronics, actuators, energy harvesting, among others. Soft dielectrics can be easily ...

Abstract: Flexoelectricity exists in all inhomogeneously deformed dielectric materials and is of great interest in engineering science, especially in microelectromechanical systems. However, the flexoelectricity is relatively small ...

Abstract: Nonlinear oscillations of dielectric elastomers are widely used in the application of dielectric devices. However, the effects of the dielectric permittivity on the oscillations have been overlooked previously. In this ...

Abstract: Flexoelectricity is a universal phenomenon present in all dielectrics that couples electrical polarization to strain gradients and vice-versa. Thus, structures and configurations that permit large strain gradients facilitate ...