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...
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 |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. BioInstrumentation Laboratory |
Format: | Article |
Language: | en_US |
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SPIE
2015
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97478 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8251-5432 |
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