Mar 18, 2024
SMRL is collaborating with Prof. Arion Chatziioannou of Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging to develop a superfast scintillator for medical imaging and portal monitors. The new scintillator can detect X-ray and gamma ray with high light yield, nanosecond and faster...
Mar 4, 2024
Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) emerge as a soft actuation technology that exhibits such advantageous properties as large strains, fast responses, high energy densities, and mechanical compliancy. Extensive research over the past few decades has advanced the...
Feb 26, 2024
Zhu, Y.; Wu, H.; Martin, A.; Beck, P.; Allahyarov, E.; Wongwirat, T.; Rui, G.; Zhu, Y.; Hawthorne, D.; Fan, J.; Wu, J.; Zhang, S.; Zhu, L.; Kaur, S.; Pei, Q. Operando Investigation of the Molecular Origins of Dipole Switching in P(VDF-TrFE-CFE) Terpolymer for Large...
Mar 20, 2023
Congratulations to Roshan, Ziqing, Yuxuan, and all DEA team members for demonstrating PHDE roll actuators and pumps at the 30th SPIE Smart Structures + NDE conferences in Long Beach, California, 12 – 16 March 2023.
Jul 17, 2022
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 (DEs) can act as deformable...
Oct 18, 2021
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...
