Soft Materials Research Laboratory (SMRL)
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High-performance dielectric elastomers (PHDE) and scalable fabrication of multilayer stacked actuators
https://samueli.ucla.edu/ucla-scientists-develop-durable-material-for-flexible-artificial-muscles/ Shi, Y., Askounis, E., Plamthottam, R., Libby, T., Peng, Z., Youssef, K., Pu, J., Pelrine, R. and Pei, Q., Science, 377(6602), 228-232 (2022). Dielectric elastomers...
Automatically Modulated Thermoresponsive Film Based on a Phase-Changing Copolymer
Liu, Y., Fan, J., Plamthottam, R., Gao, M., Peng, Z., Meng, Y., … & Pei, Q. (2021). Automatically Modulated Thermoresponsive Film Based on a Phase-Changing Copolymer. Chemistry of Materials. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.chemmater.1c01389...
Skin temperature-triggered, debonding-on-demand sticker for a self-powered mechanosensitive communication system
Gao, M.,* Wu, H.,* Plamthottam, R., Xie, Z., Liu, Y., Hu, J., Wu, S., Wu, L., He, X. and Pei, Q., Skin temperature-triggered, debonding-on-demand sticker for a self-powered mechanosensitive communication system. Matter. 4, 1-13 (2021). ...