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SCIENCE
Volume 351, Issue 6277, Pages 1071-1074Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.aac5082
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- Army Research Office [W911NF-15-1-0464]
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research [FA9550-15-1-0160]
- NSF MRSEC program [DMR-1120296]
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship [DGE-1144153]
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Cephalopods such as octopuses have a combination of a stretchable skin and colortuning organs to control both posture and color for visual communication and disguise. We present an electroluminescent material that is capable of large uniaxial stretching and surface area changes while actively emitting light. Layers of transparent hydrogel electrodes sandwich a ZnS phosphor-doped dielectric elastomer layer, creating thin rubber sheets that change illuminance and capacitance under deformation. Arrays of individually controllable pixels in thin rubber sheets were fabricated using replica molding and were subjected to stretching, folding, and rolling to demonstrate their use as stretchable displays. These sheets were then integrated into the skin of a soft robot, providing it with dynamic coloration and sensory feedback from external and internal stimuli.
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