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Nanostructured artificial-muscle fibres

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Artificial-muscle fibres mimic the ordered nanostructures in natural-muscle fibres to achieve promising mechanical and actuation properties.

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Fig. 1: Nanostructured artificial-muscle fibres achieve extraordinary mechanical and actuation properties.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Shaoting Lin & Xuanhe Zhao

  2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Xuanhe Zhao

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Lin, S., Zhao, X. Nanostructured artificial-muscle fibres. Nat. Nanotechnol. 17, 677–678 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-022-01149-6

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