A new recipe, or design guidelines, for a self-strengthening muscle-like hydrogel has been developed through strategic integration of computational, information, and experimental research. The ...

Hydrogels are a permeable soft material consisting of polymer networks and water that are relevant for biological material applications. Professor Gong’s group at WPI-ICReDD has previously developed ...

Ras Labs, LLC, developers of contractile electroactive polymers (EAPs), today announced that its Synthetic Muscle™ polymers have returned to Earth after a year of extensive radiation exposure on the ...

Researchers create 'living' polymers that grow, degrow, and reprogram their properties after fabrication using reversible chemistry and light-activated catalysts.

The artificial muscle developed by researchers at Linköping University consists of polymer material, into which the researchers have integrated enzymes. A solution of glucose and oxygen in water ...