报告题目:The Evolution of Strong, Fast, Powerful, Durable, and Cheap Polymer Artificial Muscles from Carbon Nanotube Muscles
报告人:Professor RayH.Baughman
Prof.RayH.Baughman became the Robert A. Welch Professor of Chemistry and Director of the NanoTech Institute at the University of Texas in Dallas in August 2001. He is a Member of The National Academy of Engineering and The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas; a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry; an Academician of The Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. He has 70 issued US patents and over 360 refereed publications with over 26,000 citations.He was listed 30thin theTop 100 Material Scientists of the Decade(2000-2010), theTech Titans Award in Education(2011),Time Magazines50 Best Inventions of the Year(2011)and the SGL Carbon Award of the American Carbon Society (2013).
Three successive generations of twist-spun artificial muscles are described that provide both torsional and tensile actuation. Our first generation of twist-spun muscles, which are electrochemically powered by volume changes induced by double-layer charge injection. Our second generation muscles, which require no electrolyte and are based on guest-infiltrated carbon nanotube yarns. Our third generation muscles, which are thermally, electrothermally, or chemically powered polymer fibers.These polymer muscles can be cheaply made from fishing line or sewing thread.