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NANO LETTERS
Volume 6, Issue 1, Pages 73-77Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nl0520617
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- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [GR/S47496/01] Funding Source: researchfish
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A scalable synthetic muscle has been constructed that transducts nanoscale molecular shape changes into macroscopic motion. The working material, which deforms affinely in response to a pH stimulus, is a self-assembled block copolymer comprising nanoscopic hydrophobic domains in a weak polyacid matrix. A device has been assembled where the muscle does work on a cantilever and the force generated has been measured. When coupled to a chemical oscillator this provides a free running chemical motor that generates a peak power of 20 mW kg(-1) by the serial addition of 10 nm shape changes that scales over 5 orders of magnitude. It is the nanostructured nature of the gel that gives rise to the affine deformation and results in a robust working material for the construction of scalable muscle devices.
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