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Nanostructured artificial-muscle fibres

Nature Nanotechnology volume 17, pages 677–678 (2022)Cite this article

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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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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