Abstract:Electrothermal carbon nanotube (CNT) yarn muscles can provide large strokes during heating-cooling cycles. However, the slow cooling rate of thermal muscles limit their applications, since large diameter prior-art thermal muscles cannot be rapidly cycled. We here report an ultrafast thermally powered sheath-driven yarn muscle that uses a hybrid CNT sheath and an inexpensive polymer core. Our coiled muscle contracts 14.3% at 1 Hz and 7.3% at 8 Hz in air when powered by a square-wave electrical voltage input. Th… Show more
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