ELECTRORHEOLOGICALMATERIAL AND DEVICEDESIGN AND PREPARATION -- NOTICE TO THE READER -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- DESIGN AND PREPARATION OFELECTRORHEOLOGICAL MATERIALS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. ER MECHANISMS -- 2.1. Polarization Mechanism -- 2.2. Electric Double Layers and Water Bridge Model -- 2.3. Conduction Model -- 3. COMPONENTS OF ELECTRORHEOLOGICAL FLUIDS -- 4. DESIGN AND PREPARATION OF ER MATERIALS -- 4.1. ER Materials Based on Molecular and Crystal StructureDesign -- 4.2. ER Materials Based on Nanocomposite and Hybrid Design -- 4.3. Molecular-Scale Organic/Inorganic Hybrids -- DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING OFELECTRORHEOLOGICAL DEVICES -- 1. ELECTRORHEOLOGICAL SELF-COUPLED DAMPERS -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Working Principle of Self-Coupled ER Dampers -- 1.3.The First Generation Product: Adaptive ER-piezoceramicDamper -- 1.4. The Second Generation Product: Self-Coupled ER Damper -- 2. FLEXIBLE SOUND-TUNABLE ER COMPOSITE LAYER -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Sound Tunable Characteristics of Flexible ER Layer [131] -- 2.3. Vibration-Radiation Model of the ER Layer [134] -- SUMMARY -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.