Electroionic Artificial Muscles: Metal–Organic Framework‐Derived Graphitic Nanoribbons Anchored on Graphene for Electroionic Artificial Muscles (Adv. Funct. Mater. 29/2020)

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...

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 ...

Artificial Muscles for Humanoid Robots

It is important to recall that humanoid robot technology derives from the technology of industrial robots. It is obvious that the developments of bipedal robots such as the integration of robot-upper limbs to complex anthropomorphic structures have benefited from progress in mechanical structures, sensors and actuators used in industrial robot-arms. A direct link is sometimes made between the t...

Linear artificial molecular muscles.

Two switchable, palindromically constituted bistable [3]rotaxanes have been designed and synthesized with a pair of mechanically mobile rings encircling a single dumbbell. These designs are reminiscent of a "molecular muscle" for the purposes of amplifying and harnessing molecular mechanical motions. The location of the two cyclobis(paraquat-p-phenylene) (CBPQT(4+)) rings can be controlled to b...