Materials

Elastomers:

Silicone:

• Dow Corning-
• Sylgard 184 (PDMS)
  • Datasheet
  • Mechanical characterization
  • Silicones for Stretchable and Durable Soft Devices: Beyond Sylgard-184
• Sylgard 186 (PDMS)
• Sylgard 527
  • Mixing 527 with 184 to tune the elastomer modulus, while preserving the stoichiometry
• Gelest (PDMS)

- 3d printing paper 
 

• NuSil (Medical grade silicones, solvent cast)
• MED-6400 (solvent cast)
• Smooth-On
• Dragon Skin
• Ecoflex
• Silicone glue, sil-poxy

PVDF:

• e-PVDF

Low melting point liquid metals:

Eutectic Gallium Indium (EGaIn):

• Alloy composition: 75% Ga, 25% In by weight
• Raw metal suppliers:
• Solution materials ($0.80/gram; In: $350/250g, Ga: $449/750g; 99.99%)
• Rotometals ($0.42/gram; In: $169/250g, Ga: $249/750g; 99.99%)
• Indium Corp ($1.23/gram; In: $620/kg, Ga $1430/kg; 99.999%)
• LM-elastomer mixing ratio worksheet
• Rheological Modification for 3D printing of EGaIn
• Atomization printing of EGaIn: paper1, paper2
• Eutectic Gallium Indium Tin (Galinstan), Ga 68.5%, In 21.5%, Sn 10% by weight

Low melting point alloys:

• Field's metal (62.2 C)
• Fusible Bismuth Alloy (47.2 C)

Review papers:

• Emerging Applications of Liquid Metals Featuring Surface Oxides, Michael Dickey
• Soft Multifunctional Composites and Emulsions with Liquid Metals, Carmel Majidi

Composite papers:

• Fundamentals, processes and applications of high-permittivity polymer–matrix composites
• Effects of particle size, particle/matrix interface adhesion and particle loading on mechanical properties of particulate–polymer composites