Abstract
AbstractElectromechanical properties of crosslinked polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) and PDMS_PEDOT/PSS blends were investigated as potential actuator materials. Experiments were carried out under the oscillatory shear mode and with applied electric filed strength varying from 0 to 2 kV/mm. The storage modulus, G', of the crosslinked PDMS increases with increasing electric filed strength with a scaling behavior: ΔG' α Eα where the scaling exponent α is equal to 0.88. With PEDOT/PSS particles added at volume fractions of 5, 10, 15, and 20 vol%, the storage modulus G' of the polymer blends, are higher than that of the pristine crosslinked PDMS. The scaling exponent of the scaling behavior decreases from 0.88 to 0.10 as the volume fraction increases from 0 to 20 vol%. The storage modulus sensitivity,, attains maximum values of 8%, 9%, 10%, and 9%, at particle volume fractions of 5, 10, 15, and 20 vol%, respectively at the electric field strength of 2 kV/mm. Temporal response of the crosslinked PDMS system is irreversible, but the response of the PDMS_PEDOT/PSS system is evidently reversible
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