Strong flexible artificial muscles designed Lastupdate:- Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:30:00 GMT GreaterKashmir.com

Strong, flexible artificial muscles designed

Toronto, Oct 14: New artificial muscles as flexible as an elephant's trunk but strong enough to rotate objects two thousand times their own weight, have been designed by researchers.
Using yarns of carbon nanotubes that are enormously strong, tough and highly flexible, researchers developed the artificial muscles that can rotate 250 degrees per mm of muscle length. This is more than a thousand times that of available artificial muscles composed of shape memory alloys and polymers, among others, a class of materials that can hold both positive and negative electric charges, the journal Science Express reports. IANS

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