Artificial Muscles from Hybrid Carbon Nanotube‐Polypyrrole‐Coated Twisted and Coiled Yarns

Electrospinning of Continuous Nanofiber Bundles and Twisted Nanofiber Yarns

Spinning is a prehistoric technology in which endless filaments, shorter fibers or twisted fibers are put together to produce yarns that serve as key element to assemble multifarious structural designs for diverse functions. Electrospinning has been regarded as the most effective and versatile technology to produce nanofibers with controlled fiber morphology, dimension and functional components...

Twisted and coiled ultralong multilayer graphene ribbons

The mechanical behavior and properties of multilayer graphene sheets and nanoribbons have been a subject of intensive research in recent years, due to their potential in electronic, structural and thermal applications. Calculations of effective properties range from molecular dynamic simulations to use of structural mechanical continuum models. Here, structural and elastic parameters are obtain...

Yarns and Sheets from Well Allined Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes

From Carbon Nanotube Yarns to Sensors: Recent Findings and Challenges

Carbon nanotube (CNT) arrays can be drawn into a web and then twisted into threads. These CNT threads contain thousands of carbon nanotubes in their cross-section and can be further composed into yarns consisting of one or more threads. CNT yarns exhibit significant mechanical stiffness and strength and low electrical resistivity. More importantly, CNT yarns exhibit piezoresistance that could b...

Bio-inspired Hybrid Carbon Nanotube Muscles

There has been continuous progress in the development for biomedical engineering systems of hybrid muscle generated by combining skeletal muscle and artificial structure. The main factor affecting the actuation performance of hybrid muscle relies on the compatibility between living cells and their muscle scaffolds during cell culture. Here, we developed a hybrid muscle powered by C2C12 skeletal...