Torsional Carbon Nanotube Artificial Muscles
- Title
- Torsional Carbon Nanotube Artificial Muscles
- Author
- 김선정
- Keywords
- Biomimetic Materials; Electrodes; Electrolytes; Muscles; Nanotubes; Carbon; Rotation; Torque; Torsion; Mechanical
- Issue Date
- 2011-10
- Publisher
- American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2011.
- Citation
- Science,Vol.334 No.6055 [2011],494-497
- Abstract
- Rotary motors of conventional design can be rather complex and are therefore difficult to miniaturize; previous carbon nanotube artificial muscles provide contraction and bending, but not rotation. We show that an electrolyte-filled twist-spun carbon nanotube yarn, much thinner than a human hair, functions as a torsional artificial muscle in a simple three-electrode electrochemical system, providing a reversible 15,000° rotation and 590 revolutions per minute. A hydrostatic actuation mechanism, as seen in muscular hydrostats in nature, explains the simultaneous occurrence of lengthwise contraction and torsional rotation during the yarn volume increase caused by electrochemical double-layer charge injection. The use of a torsional yarn muscle as a mixer for a fluidic chip is demonstrated.
- URI
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1211220http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11754/37135
- ISSN
- 0036-8075; 1095-9203
- DOI
- 10.1126/science.1211220
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