Scientists have discovered that ordinary fishing line and sewing thread can be cheaply converted to powerful artificial muscles. The new muscles can lift a hundred times more weight and generate a ...
We tend to dream of a future enabled by miraculous materials—nanoscale honeycomb lattices of strong, ultralight superconducting metals. Carbon nanotubes and graphene come to mind. Fishing line and ...
Artificial muscle made from fishing line can lift 100 times more weight than human muscles. University of Texas at Dallas/ Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute Researchers have created some ...