Giant-stroke, superelastic carbon nanotube aerogel muscles

Science

Volumn 323, Issue 5921, 2009, Pages 1575-1578

  Aliev, Ali E ^a   Oh, Jiyoung ^a   Kozlov, Mikhail E ^a   Kuznetsov, Alexander A ^a   Fang, Shaoli ^a   Fonseca, Alexandre F ^a   Ovalle, Raquel ^a   Lima, Márcio D ^a   Haque, Mohammad H ^a   Gartstein, Yuri N ^a   Zhang, Mei ^a,b   Zakhidov, Anvar A ^a   Baughman, Ray H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE; MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE;

CARBON; ELECTRODE; GEL; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE; RUBBER; STEEL;

ARTICLE; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRODE; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; TEMPERATURE;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; ELASTICITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NANOTUBES, CARBON; STATIC ELECTRICITY; TEMPERATURE; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 62849083918     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1168312     Document Type: Article

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