Wax-filled nanotech yarn behaves like super-strong muscle

November 16, 2012

New artificial muscles made from nanotech yarns and infused with paraffin wax can lift more than 100,000 times their own weight and generate 85 times more mechanical power than the same size natural muscle, according to scientists at The University of Texas at Dallas and their international team from Australia, China, South Korea, Canada, and Brazil. (R & D Magazine)