Effects of Additives on Actuating Performance

4 Effects of Additives on Actuating Performance of Synthetic Elastomer 

The synthetic elastomer presented in Section 6.3 gives us more advantages than the other DE materials. However, the commercially available NBR products still exhibit some undesired characteristics when compared to the requirements of DE such as high elastic modulus and low viscosity. Consequently, the modification of the synthetic elastomer with additives while maintaining its ease of processing is presented here. 

Most of the fillers are used only to increase the dielectric constant, but very few of the previous researchers discuss the effects these fillers have on the elastic modulus of the dielectric elastomer. In this section, we investigate how the elastic modulus, the dielectric constant and the electromechanical properties of the synthetic elastomer can be changed, respectively, by using the proposed synthetic elastomer and additives. 

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