An interesting animation but I think it works a bit differently than that. As a current is applied to the fiber it’s structure changes causing it to shorten, then when the current is released it goes back to it’s original form. But cool stuff all the same
Please, quit making shit up to try to impress people.
Carbon nanotubes have a tensile strength of about 150 GPa, and given a very small SUV weighs 1000 kg, means that under perfect conditions, you would need a cable about 0.3 mm in diameter. Single nanotubes have a diameter of about 1 nm, or 300,000 times as small. Furthermore, because the area increases with the square of the size, you would need about 100 billion nanotubes to form the 0.3 mm cable to hold up the (very light) SUV.
In theory, a single strand of nanotube (thinner than hair) can support an SUV, provided it doesn’t cut the car clear in half. These strands are unimaginably strong. A few strands spun together are stronger than industrial grade steel cables, able to support many tonnes of weight. A paper thin sheet of nanotubes is stronger than a meter thick plate of the strongest metal alloy (titanium). Incredible stuff…
Don’t you realize what this means as far as medical and scientific value? This is synthetic muscle… You could have a new arm built for someone who lost one and be able to lift over a 1000 lbs. This is an incredible breakthrough in technology… Oh wait, your still in a cave banging rocks together so it doesn’t mater to you.
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i want some of those
i wnnaa buuy em!
@mobius1aic fuck ya i want face camo so i can sneak into the playboy mansion hehehe
im gueeing if a current is run through them it looks like it makes the expand. dunno, wish the detals had more details…
maximum strenght
@Cymator MUSCLE SUITS 4 THE WIN!
i have a dought, the CNT are used between some thread like structures.what is the material used for the thread?
Crysis?
*loadin’ a shotgun* …maaan as soon as AI becomes a reality I’ll be shooting at terminators made with nano-muscles
one step closer to terminators, i cant wait for my very own T-1000
lmao
I LOST THE GAME!!
hell yes!
Muscle suits hell yeah. Metal Gear style!
An interesting animation but I think it works a bit differently than that. As a current is applied to the fiber it’s structure changes causing it to shorten, then when the current is released it goes back to it’s original form. But cool stuff all the same
Im lost
body armor strong?
haha a human lifting 1000 pounds without braking their back?
this will most likely be used in medicine and also for humanoid robots. Or just robots with smoother movements in general.
with this arm those rocks would be dust
Is this all animation or not?
O_O 1000 LBS?!
because there is nothing to hear
Please, quit making shit up to try to impress people.
Carbon nanotubes have a tensile strength of about 150 GPa, and given a very small SUV weighs 1000 kg, means that under perfect conditions, you would need a cable about 0.3 mm in diameter. Single nanotubes have a diameter of about 1 nm, or 300,000 times as small. Furthermore, because the area increases with the square of the size, you would need about 100 billion nanotubes to form the 0.3 mm cable to hold up the (very light) SUV.
In theory, a single strand of nanotube (thinner than hair) can support an SUV, provided it doesn’t cut the car clear in half. These strands are unimaginably strong. A few strands spun together are stronger than industrial grade steel cables, able to support many tonnes of weight. A paper thin sheet of nanotubes is stronger than a meter thick plate of the strongest metal alloy (titanium). Incredible stuff…
Don’t you realize what this means as far as medical and scientific value? This is synthetic muscle… You could have a new arm built for someone who lost one and be able to lift over a 1000 lbs. This is an incredible breakthrough in technology… Oh wait, your still in a cave banging rocks together so it doesn’t mater to you.
fuck me running
androids are gonna be so fuckin dope