Simple and strong: twisted silver painted nylon artificial muscle actuated by Joule heating

Simple and strong: twisted silver painted nylon artificial muscle actuated by Joule heating

Highly oriented nylon and polyethylene fibres shrink in length when heated and expand in diameter. By twisting and then coiling monofilaments of these materials to form helical springs, the anisotropic thermal expansion has recently been shown to enable tensile actuation of up to 49% upon heating. J...

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Main Authors: Mirvakili, Seyed Mohammad, Rafie Ravandi, Ali, Haines, Carter S., Li, Na, Foroughi, Javad, Naficy, Sina, Spinks, Geoffrey M., Baughman, Ray H., Madden, John D. W., Hunter, Ian
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. BioInstrumentation Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: SPIE 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97478
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8251-5432

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97478
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8251-5432

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