Electrochemically or electrothermally driven twisted/coiled carbon nanotube (CNT) yarn actuators are interesting artificial muscles for wearables as they can sustain high stress. However, due to high fabrication costs, these yarns have limited their application in smart textiles. An alternative approach is to use off-the-shelf yarns and coat them with conductive polymers that deliver high actuation properties. Here, novel hybrid textile yarns are demonstrated that combine CNT and an electroactive polypyrrole coating to provide both high strength and good actuation properties. CNT-coated polyester yarns are twisted and coiled and subjected to electrochemical coating of polypyrrole to obtain the hierarchical soft actuators. When twisted witho...
Electrochemically powered carbon nanotube (CNT) yarn muscles are of increasing interest because of t...
Artificial muscles, or soft actuators, that could exhibit contractile stroke and operate in open-air...
Just on a year ago my colleagues and I announced our discovery that carbon nanotube yarns could be m...
Electrochemically or electrothermally driven twisted/coiled carbon nanotube (CNT) yarn actuators are...
Artificial muscles are of practical interest, but few types have been commercially exploited. Typica...
Commercially available yarns are promising precursor for artificial muscles for smart fabric-based t...
Artificial muscles are of practical interest, but few types have been commercially exploited. Typica...
The first demonstration of electromechanical actuation in carbon nanotubes (CNTs), aligned in the fo...
Smart systems are those that display autonomous or collaborative functionalities, and include the ab...
2019 The Royal Society of Chemistry. Actuator materials capable of producing a rotational or tensile...
Twisted-yarn-based artificial muscles can potentially be used in diverse applications, such as valve...
Carbon nanotube (CNT) yarns are promising for wearable electronic applications due to their excellen...
Torsional artificial muscles generating fast, large-angle rotation have been recently demonstrated, ...
A new perspective in the field of actuators was opened by the demonstration of multiwall carbon nano...
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have attracted extensive attention in the past few years because of their ap...
Electrochemically powered carbon nanotube (CNT) yarn muscles are of increasing interest because of t...
Artificial muscles, or soft actuators, that could exhibit contractile stroke and operate in open-air...
Just on a year ago my colleagues and I announced our discovery that carbon nanotube yarns could be m...
Electrochemically or electrothermally driven twisted/coiled carbon nanotube (CNT) yarn actuators are...
Artificial muscles are of practical interest, but few types have been commercially exploited. Typica...
Commercially available yarns are promising precursor for artificial muscles for smart fabric-based t...
Artificial muscles are of practical interest, but few types have been commercially exploited. Typica...
The first demonstration of electromechanical actuation in carbon nanotubes (CNTs), aligned in the fo...
Smart systems are those that display autonomous or collaborative functionalities, and include the ab...
2019 The Royal Society of Chemistry. Actuator materials capable of producing a rotational or tensile...
Twisted-yarn-based artificial muscles can potentially be used in diverse applications, such as valve...
Carbon nanotube (CNT) yarns are promising for wearable electronic applications due to their excellen...
Torsional artificial muscles generating fast, large-angle rotation have been recently demonstrated, ...
A new perspective in the field of actuators was opened by the demonstration of multiwall carbon nano...
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have attracted extensive attention in the past few years because of their ap...
Electrochemically powered carbon nanotube (CNT) yarn muscles are of increasing interest because of t...
Artificial muscles, or soft actuators, that could exhibit contractile stroke and operate in open-air...
Just on a year ago my colleagues and I announced our discovery that carbon nanotube yarns could be m...