Artificial Muscles: Electroionic Antagonistic Muscles Based on Nitrogen-Doped Carbons Derived from Poly(Triazine-Triptycene) (Adv. Sci. 12/2017)

Artificial Muscles: Electroionic Antagonistic Muscles Based on Nitrogen‐Doped Carbons Derived from Poly(Triazine‐Triptycene) (Adv. Sci. 12/2017)

Electroionic Antagonistic Muscles Based on Nitrogen‐Doped Carbons Derived from Poly(Triazine‐Triptycene)

Electroactive soft actuators and bioinspired artificial muscles have received burgeoning interest as essential components in future electronic devices such as soft haptic-feedback systems, human-friendly wearable electronics, and active biomedical devices. However, important challenging issues including fast response time, ultralow input power, robust operation in harsh environments, high-resol...

Artificial muscles based on conducting polymers

Natural muscles have mechanical properties that conventional actuators do not possess. These natural machines show large strain, moderate stress, high efficiency and stability, fast response time, high power/weight ratio, long lifetime, etc. In the last years a great interest has arisen to develop materials that mimic natural mechanisms. Conducting polymers have an array of potential applicatio...

Artificial Muscles Based on Electroactive Polymers

New twist on artificial muscles.

Lightweight artificial muscle fibers that can match the large tensile stroke of natural muscles have been elusive. In particular, low stroke, limited cycle life, and inefficient energy conversion have combined with high cost and hysteretic performance to restrict practical use. In recent years, a new class of artificial muscles, based on highly twisted fibers, has emerged that can deliver more ...