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What are Fuel Powered Artificial Muscles?

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What are Fuel Powered Artificial Muscles?

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Fuel-powered artificial muscles refers to an advance in robotics and engineering by researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas NanoTech Institute and Pusan National University in Korea. The effort was led by Dr. Ray Baughman, with help from DARPA. The creation of the fuel-powered artificial muscles was announced on March 16th, 2006, and the peer-reviewed paper describing the technology was published in the prestigious journal Science the next day. The fuel-powered artificial muscles are claimed to be based on nanotechnology because they use carbon nanotube electrodes to convert chemical energy to mechanical energy, and employ nanoparticle catalysts. The first attempt at nanotech-based fuel-powered artificial muscles was a “cantilever-based nanotube fuel-cell muscle”. The cantilever portion contained a strip of nanotubes that are covered with the ionic polymer Nafion and platinum-coated carbon. As well as actuating the muscle, the cantilever was submerged in electrolytic sulfuric