Scientists from Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island and the University of Connecticut have developed a customizable nanomaterial that combines metallic strength with a foam-like ability to compress and spring back. This organic-inorganic hybrid material could pave the way to new nanoelectromechanical devices.
The nanomaterials have elastic properties of human muscle — high strength with the ability to flex and release large amounts of energy — opening up the possibility of entirely new classes of robust, flexible nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) such as biosynthetic artificial muscles.
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