Self-healing and power-generating artificial muscle
Written by Manoj Agrawal
Sunday, 23 March 2008
Researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles have developed an artificial muscle that can heal itself and recharge an ipode.
These muscles have developed by using carbon nanotubes as electrodes.Muscles have been developed for robotics purpose.
In compairsion to other metal-based films muscle, this muscle can expand more than 200 percent when applied with electricty,without undergoing any failure.Under pressure carbon nanotubes have the tendency to shutdown to prevent the spread of failure to other areas of muscle so it can continue to work.
This muscle conserves 70 percen of the energy put into it and that electrical current can be used to charge an iphone or can be used to generate ocean waves.Read more about this on Discovery news.
Researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles have developed an artificial muscle that can heal itself and recharge an ipode.
