Artificial muscles created from gold-plated onion cells

Tuesday, May 5, 2015 - 13:00 in Physics & Chemistry

The onion, a humble root vegetable, is proving its strength outside the culinary world -- in an artificial muscle created from onion cells. Unlike previous artificial muscles, this one can either expand or contract to bend in different directions depending on the driving voltage applied.

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