Artificial muscle: facts and fiction

Artificial muscle: facts and fiction

Mechanical devices are sought to support insufficient or paralysed striated muscles including the failing heart. Nickel-titanium alloys (nitinol) present the following two properties: (i) super-elasticity, and (ii) the potential to assume different crystal structures depending on temperature a...

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Main Author: MC Schaub
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SMW supporting association (Trägerverein Swiss Medical Weekly SMW) 2011-12-01
Series:Swiss Medical Weekly
Subjects:
Artificial muscleAtrial mechanical supportEnergy balance myocardiumMuscle contractionNitinol alloy
atrial mechanical support
energy balance myocardium
muscle contraction
Nitinol alloy
Online Access:https://www.smw.ch/index.php/smw/article/view/1408

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