Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton T6G 1H9, Canada ...

Electronic Materials and Thin Films Lab, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, IIT Madras, Chennai 600036, India Centre of Excellence in Ceramics Technologies for Futuristic Mobility, ...

For centuries, static electricity has been the subject of intrigue and scientific investigation. Now, researchers from the ...

Nujol ®-CPEs, used for comparative purposes, were prepared with mineral oil Nujol ® purchased from Sigma (St. Louis, USA). PDMS-CPEs were prepared with trimethylsiloxy terminated polydimethylsiloxane ...

Fluidic elastomer actuators (FEAs) are pressurized tubes or membranes that can be easily rearranged into complex mechanical ...

A recent breakthrough in photothermal actuator design has been achieved by a research team from the Hefei Institutes of ...

However, the traditional methods of fabricating microfluidic devices—typically using PDMS (polydimethylsiloxane)—are ...

Now scientists at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) have identified a critical factor explaining that ...

A group of researchers from Shibaura Institute of Technology (SIT) developed the Dielectric Elastomer Sensor (DES) to measure ...

A new modified silicone rubber for cancer-on-chip applications improves cell adhesion and drug testing, paving the way for ...