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Dragon Skin 30

Dragon Skin 30 is sturdy silicone by Smooth-On company and is harder than Ecoflex-30. It is widely used as the body layer of Fast PneuNet actuators.

We have used it also as the base layer of Slow PneuNet actuators

Material properties

  • Hardness: Shore A 30
  • Pot life: 45 mins
  • Curing time (Room temprature): 16 hrs

Oven Curing

We have found the following approximate curing times:

Mold Temperature Time
Fast Bending Actuator 65c ~35 mins
Gripper 65c ~30mins
soft-robotics/silicones/dragonskin30.txt · Last modified: 2017/04/17 05:50 by avnerus