Spider dragline silk as torsional actuator driven by humidity
Self-powered actuation driven by ambient humidity is of practical interest for applications such as hygroscopic artificial muscles. We demonstrate that spider dragline silk exhibits a humidity-induced torsional deformation of more than 300°/mm. When the relative humidity reaches a threshold of about...
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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2020
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124363 |