New artificial muscles made from nanotech yarns and infused with paraffin wax can lift more than 100,000 times their own weight and generate 85 times more mechanical power during contraction than the ...

The expansion and contraction of muscles keeps us alive every second of every day. Even though it’s such a basic part of our existance, creating artificial muscles has proven to be a bit more ...

Beefing up some muscles doesn’t take steroids or exercise — paraffin wax will do. Incorporating wax into artificial muscles spun from carbon nanotubes gives them superior flexing power, a discovery ...

An international team of researchers led by Ray Baughman of the University of Texas at Dallas has developed a new type of artificial muscle made from a “yarn” of twisted carbon-nanotube threads ...

An international team of scientists based at the University of Texas, Dallas (UTD), has developed a new type of artificial muscle created from carbon “nanotubes” – tiny hollow cylinders constructed ...

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The artificial muscles are yarns constructed from carbon nanotubes, which are seamless, hollow cylinders made from the same type of graphite layers found in the core of ordinary pencils. Individual ...

(Nanowerk News) New artificial muscles made from nanotech yarns and infused with paraffin wax can lift more than 100,000 times their own weight and generate 85 times more mechanical power than the ...