A new recipe, or design guidelines, for a self-strengthening muscle-like hydrogel has been developed through strategic integration of computational, information, and experimental research. The ...

Scientists developed a soft fluidic switch using an ionic polymer artificial muscle that runs with ultra-low power to lift objects 34 times greater than its weight. Its light weight and small size ...

The artificial muscle developed by researchers at Linköping University consists of polymer material, into which the researchers have integrated enzymes. A solution of glucose and oxygen in water ...

Ras Labs, LLC, developers of contractile electroactive polymers (EAPs), today announced that its Synthetic Muscle™ polymers have returned to Earth after a year of extensive radiation exposure on the ...

When building, there are lots of different paths to the same ends. Thats pretty cool and novel. However, I don't see these being adopted outside niche applications due to their actuation speed. The ...

Hydrogels are a permeable soft material consisting of polymer networks and water that are relevant for biological material applications. Professor Gong’s group at WPI-ICReDD has previously developed ...