Uploaded February 2014 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Ordinary, everyday fishing line has been used to produce artificial muscles with super human strength.
By twisting and coiling simple fishing line and applying heat, powerful artificial muscles are produced. The new muscles can lift one hundred times more weight and generate one hundred times higher mechanical power than human muscle.
Science journal has published a paper (February 21) in which researchers explain that the coils can be powered thermally by temperature changes, by absorption of light, or by chemical reaction of fuels, causing the dramatic contraction and expansion of the coil.
Watch a video of the fishing line muscles at work in a woven fabric youtu.be/fNS0pxnQfdY
Read the full story at ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science, www.electromaterials.edu.au
Ordinary, everyday fishing line has been used to produce artificial muscles with super human strength.
By twisting and coiling simple fishing line and applying heat, powerful artificial muscles are produced. The new muscles can lift one hundred times more weight and generate one hundred times higher mechanical power than human muscle.
Science journal has published a paper (February 21) in which researchers explain that the coils can be powered thermally by temperature changes, by absorption of light, or by chemical reaction of fuels, causing the dramatic contraction and expansion of the coil.
Watch a video of the fishing line muscles at work in a woven fabric youtu.be/fNS0pxnQfdY
Read the full story at ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science, www.electromaterials.edu.au
