Twist Spun Polymer and Nanotube Artificial Muscle Fibers and Yarns Powered Thermally, Chemically, and Electrochemically

Abstract

We have published 32 project-supported archival publications during this three-year project, many of which have been in high impact journals (including 2 in Science and 7 in the Nature family of journals). Five of these articles have been featured as journal covers. Also, we have filed PCT/US utility patents on four different project-supported inventions. Between 2016 and 2018, 12 US patents (and many more foreign patents) were issued for our AFOSR-supported inventions. This final report provides a brief summary of all work, and more complete description of recent work. This description will focus on our artificial muscles run-in-reverse to harvest mechanical energy as electrical energy (twistrons), which werenot previously described in any enabling detail in our first two annual reports, since they are publicly available documents and patent filings had not yet been made.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 17, 2018
Accession Number
AD1060465

Entities

People

  • Ray H. Baughman

Organizations

  • University of Texas at Dallas

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Advanced Materials
  • Boron Compounds
  • Carbon Nanotubes
  • Chemical Synthesis
  • Chemistry
  • Electric Power
  • Electrolytes
  • Energy
  • Energy Harvesting
  • Fullerenes
  • Materials
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Processing
  • Materials Science
  • Mechanical Energy
  • Muscle Fibers
  • Muscles

Readers

  • Nanocomposite Materials Science
  • Reinforced Composite Materials
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.