Biomimetic high performance artificial muscle built on sacrificial coordination network and mechanical training process

Artificial muscles have a wide range of applications yet truly mimetic designs remain a challenge. Here, the authors use dynamic sacrificial bonds which are rearranged via a mechanical training process to optimise the characteristics of self-strengthening, strain-adaptive stiffening and actuation.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zhikai Tu, Weifeng Liu, Jin Wang, Xueqing Qiu, Jinhao Huang, Jinxing Li, Hongming Lou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23204-x