MATERIALS SCIENCE: Artificial Muscle Begins to Breathe

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Science 17 March 2006:
Vol. 311. no. 5767, pp. 1559 - 1560
DOI: 10.1126/science.1123995

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MATERIALS SCIENCE:
Artificial Muscle Begins to Breathe

John D. Madden

In robots, the power source is usually distant from the actual moving parts, which can be inefficient. One solution is to provide power locally, as in real muscles, by incorporating fuel cell technology directly into artificial muscles.

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REPORTS Fuel-Powered Artificial Muscles: Von Howard Ebron, Zhiwei Yang, Daniel J. Seyer, Mikhail E. Kozlov, Jiyoung Oh, Hui Xie, Joselito Razal, Lee J. Hall, John P. Ferraris, Alan G. MacDiarmid, and Ray H. Baughman (17 March 2006)
Science 311 (5767), 1580. [DOI: 10.1126/science.1120182]
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