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Eric Acome, Nicholas Kellaris, Timothy Morrissey, Shane K. Mitchell, Christoph Keplinger

University of Colorado Boulder

Introduction

The 26th issue of the WW-EAP Newsletter is now available at: 

http://ndeaa.jpl.nasa.gov/nasa-nde/newsltr/WW-EAP_Newsletter13-2.pdf

This newsletter on the field of electroactive polymers, edited by Dr. Yoseph Bar-Cohen, addresses the need for rapid communication of progress in the field and state-of-the-art capabilities.

For a dielectric elastomer membrane we show giant voltage-triggered expansion of area by 1692%, far beyond the largest values reported in the literature.